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Becoming imperial citizens : Indians in the late-Victorian Empire / Sukanya Banerjee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Banerjee, Sukanya, 1973-
- Series:
- Next wave.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Next wave : new directions in women's studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Citizenship--India--History--19th century.
- Citizenship.
- Nationalism--India--History--19th century.
- Nationalism.
- India--History--19th century.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (286 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- By examining how Indians formulated notions of citizenship across the British empire from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth, Sujatha Banerjee theorizes modes of citizenship decoupled from the rights-conferring nation-state.
- Contents:
- Introduction : imperial citizenship
- Of the Indian economy and the English polls
- South Africa, indentured labor, and the question of credit
- The professional citizen in/and the zenana
- Bureaucratic modernity, the Indian Civil Service, and grammars of nationalism
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613065247
- 9781283065245
- 128306524X
- 9780822391982
- 0822391988
- OCLC:
- 644688062
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