Terrestrial Lessons : The Conquest of the World as Globe / Sumathi Ramaswamy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramaswamy, Sumathi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geography--Study and teaching--India--History.

Geography.

Globes--India--History.

Globes.

Earth (Planet)--Study and teaching--India--History.

Earth (Planet).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (450 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Why and how do debates about the form and disposition of our Earth shape enlightened subjectivity and secular worldliness in colonial modernity? Sumathi Ramaswamy explores this question for British India with the aid of the terrestrial globe, which since the sixteenth century has circulated as a worldly symbol, a scientific instrument, and not least an educational tool for inculcating planetary consciousness. In Terrestrial Lessons, Ramaswamy provides the first in-depth analysis of the globe's history in and impact on the Indian subcontinent during the colonial era and its aftermath. Drawing on a wide array of archival sources, she delineates its transformation from a thing of distinction possessed by elite men into that mass-produced commodity used in classrooms worldwide-the humble school globe. Traversing the length and breadth of British India, Terrestrial Lessons is an unconventional history of this master object of pedagogical modernity that will fascinate historians of cartography, science, and Asian studies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

PROLOGUE. GLOBAL ITINERARIES, EARTH INSCRIPTIONS

CHAPTER ONE. IN PURSUIT OF A GLOBAL THING

CHAPTER TWO. "AS YOU LIVE IN THE WORLD, YOU OUGHT TO KNOW SOMETHING OF THE WORLD"

CHAPTER THREE. THE GLOBAL PANDIT

CHAPTER FOUR. DOWN TO EARTH? OF GIRLS AND GLOBES

CHAPTER FIVE "IT'S CALLED A GLOBE. IT IS THE EARTH. OUR EARTH

EPILOGUE. THE CONQUEST OF THE WORLD AS GLOBE

IN GRATITUDE

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

9780226476742

022647674X

OCLC:

1005015554