Beyond representation : colonial and postcolonial constructions of Indian identity / edited by Crispin Bates.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bates, Crispin, 1958-

Edith E. Clark Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East Indians--Ethnic identity.

East Indians.

Group identity--Political aspects--India.

Group identity.

Postcolonialism.

Group identity--Political aspects.

India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.

India.

History.

Postcolonialism--India.

Physical Description:

viii, 370 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Contributed articles.

Contents:

Human sacrifice in colonial central India : myth, agency, and representation / Crispin Bates

Governmentality, pedagogy, identity : the problem of the 'backward Muslim' in colonial India / Sanjay Seth

Subverting the moral universe : 'narratives of transgression' in the construction of middle-class identity in colonial Bengal / Swapna M. Banerjee

The icon of mother in late colonial north India : Bharat Mata, Matri Bhasha, and Gau Mata / Charu Gupta

Battling the demoness Hindi in Tamil India / Sumathi Ramaswamy

Gujarati elites and the construction of a regional identity in the late nineteenth century / Riho Isaka

A world of learning : the material culture of education and class in nineteenth-century Bengal / Tithi Bhattacharya

Identities made in print : literary Bengali and its 'others', c. 1800-1905 / Anindita Ghosh

From Brahmacharya to 'conscious race culture' : Victorian discourses of 'science' and Hindu traditions in early Indian nationalism / Harald Fischer-Tiné

Between suburb and world politics : middle-class identities and the refashioning of space in late imperial Lahore, c. 1920-50 / Markus Daechsel

Treason of the clerks : sedition and representation in the telegraph general strike of 1908 / Deep Kanta Lahiri Choudhury

The chemistry of a Bengali life : Acharya/Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray in his times and spaces / Benjamin Zachariah

'I assert myself as the head of the universe government' : identities, psychiatry, and a swami in postcolonial India / James H. Mills.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edith E. Clark Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

0195674979

9780195674972

OCLC:

69734850

Publisher Number:

9780195674972