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Routledge handbook of the history of colonialism in South Asia / edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné and Maria Framke.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge handbooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Historiography.
- Colonial influence.
- South Asia--Historiography.
- South Asia.
- South Asia--Colonial influence.
- India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947--Historiography.
- India.
- India--Civilization--British influences.
- Civilization.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Asia.
- Great Britain.
- Colonies.
- Asia.
- British colonies.
- Civilization--British influences.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Harald Fischer-Tiné is Professor of Modern Global History at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zürich) Switzerland. He has published extensively on South Asian colonial history and the history of the British Empire. His research interests include global and transnational history, the history of knowledge and the social and cultural history of colonial South Asia. His many publications include Low and Licentious Europeans: Race, Class, and 'White Subalternity' in Colonial India (2009) andShyamji Krishnavarma: Sanskrit, Sociology and Anti-Imperialism (2014). Maria Framke is a historian at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin, Germany. She works on the history of imperial, international and nationalist politics, humanitarianism, and ideologies in the twentieth century. She is also the author of Engagement with Italian Fascism and German National Socialism in India, 1922-1939 (2013).
- Summary:
- The Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia provides a comprehensive overview of the historiographical specialisation and sophistication of the history of colonialism in South Asia. It explores the classic works of earlier generations of historians and offers an introduction to the rapid and multifaceted development of historical research on colonial South Asia since the 1990s. Covering economic history, political history, and social history and offering insights from other disciplines and turns' within the mainstream of history, the handbook is structured in six parts: Overarching Themes and Debates The World of Economy and Labour Creating and Keeping Order: Science, Race, Religion, Law, and Education Environment and Space Culture, Media, and the Everyday Colonial South Asia in the World The editors have assembled a group of leading international scholars of South Asian history and related disciplines to introduce a broad readership into the respective subfields and research topics. Designed to serve as a comprehensive and nuanced yet readable introduction to the vast field of the history of colonialism in the Indian subcontinent, the handbook will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of South Asian history, imperial and colonial history, and global and world history.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor and Francis Group, viewed September 3, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Routledge handbook of the history of colonialism in South Asia.
- ISBN:
- 9780429774706
- 0429774702
- 9780429431012
- 0429431015
- 9780429774690
- 0429774699
- 9780429774683
- 0429774680
- OCLC:
- 1263742147
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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