A Distant Sovereignty: National Imperialism and the Origins of British IndiaRoutledge, 22.04.2016 - 248 Seiten In this broad study of British rule in India during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Sudipta Sen takes up this dual agenda, sketching out the interrelationships between nationalism, imperialism, and identity formation as they played out in both England and South Asia. |
Inhalt
Chapter 1 The State and Its Colonial Frontiers | 1 |
Chapter 2 History as Imperial Lesson | 27 |
Chapter 3 Invasive Prospects | 57 |
Chapter 4 Domesticity and Dominion | 85 |
Chapter 5 The Decline of Intimacy | 119 |
Afterword | 151 |
Notes | 157 |
Select Bibliography | 185 |
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Distant Sovereignty: National Imperialism and the Origins of British India Sudipta Sen Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2002 |
Distant Sovereignty: National Imperialism and the Origins of British India Sudipta Sen Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2002 |
A Distant Sovereignty: National Imperialism and the Origins of British India Sudipta Sen Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2016 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
administration Alexander Dalrymple ancient Anglo-Indian argued arts Asiatic Bengal blood body Britain British Empire British India British Monarchy British rule Britons Burke Calcutta Cambridge cartography chapter character civil climate Clive colonial India commerce company-state Company’s conquest constitution contemporary context Court of Directors culture Delhi despotism Devis domestic dominion early East India Company Edmund Burke eighteenth century Emma Roberts England English Englishmen Eurasians European expansion geographical Ghosh Hindus historian History of India household human Ibid idea imperial Indian society Indies inhabitants James John John Ricketts land laws liberty London Mackintosh military moral Mughal emperor Mughal Empire native natural nineteenth century observers oriental Orme’s Oxford University Press Parliament political economy possessions race racial Rennell Rennell’s revenue Robert Orme rule in India rulers servants settlements sexual Sketches sovereignty subcontinent subjects survey Tennant territory Thomas tion trade Wellesley William women York