The other empire : metropolis, India and progress in the colonial imagination / John Marriott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marriott, John, 1944- Author.

Contributor:

Marriott, John, contributor.

Series:

Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)

Studies in imperialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban poor--England--London--History--19th century.

Social change--England--London--History--19th century.

Urban poor--India--History--19th century.

Social change--India--History--19th century.

Imperialism--History--19th century.

London (England)--Social conditions.

India--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

MSI edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2013, 2012.

Language Note:

In English.

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Summary:

This is a detailed study of the various ways in which London and India were imaginatively constructed by British observers during the nineteenth century. This process took place within a unified field of knowledge that brought together travel and evangelical accounts to exert a formative influence on the creation of London and India for the domestic reading public. Their distinct narratives, rhetoric and chronologies forged homologies between representations of the metropolitan poor and colonial subjects—those constituencies that were seen as the most threatening to imperial progress. Thus the poor and particular sections of the Indian population were inscribed within discourses of western civilization as regressive and inferior peoples. Over time, these discourses increasingly promoted notions of overt and rigid racial hierarchies, the legacy of which remains to this day.

Contents:

Introduction: metropolis and India

1. The antinomies of progress

2. Desarts of Africa or Arabia

3. The intimate connexion

4 A complete cyclopaedia

5. So immense an empire

6. In darkest England

7. The great museum of races

Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

First published: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

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ISBN:

9786610734054

9781847795397

1847795390

9781526137838

1526137836

9781781700341

1781700346

9781280734052

1280734051

9781847790613

1847790615

9781423706335

1423706331

OCLC:

70729352

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Unrestricted online access