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English Writing and India, 1600–1920

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113413150X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Book Synopsis English Writing and India, 1600–1920 by : Pramod K. Nayar

Download or read book English Writing and India, 1600–1920 written by Pramod K. Nayar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period. Arguing that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian landscape, Pramod Nayar demonstrates how aesthetics furnished a vocabulary and representational modes for the British to construct particular images of India. Looking specifically at the aesthetic modes of the marvellous, the monstrous, the sublime, the picturesque and the luxuriant, Nayar marks the shift in the rhetoric – from the exploration narratives from the age of mercantile exploration to that of the ‘shikar’ memoirs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s extreme exotic. English Writing and India provides an important new study of colonial aesthetics, even as it extends current scholarship on the modes of early British representations of new lands and cultures.

Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature, 1830-1947

Author : Alex Tickell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136618414
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Book Synopsis Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature, 1830-1947 by : Alex Tickell

Download or read book Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature, 1830-1947 written by Alex Tickell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is an interdisciplinary study of representations of terrorism and political violence in the fiction and journalism of colonial India. Focusing on key historical episodes such as the Calcutta "Black Hole," the anti-thuggee campaigns of the 1830s, the 1857 rebellion, and anti-colonial terrorism in Edwardian London, it argues that exceptional violence was integral to colonial sovereignty and that the threat of violence mutually defined discursive relations between colonizer and colonized. Moving beyond previous studies of colonial discourse, and drawing on contemporary analyses of terrorism, Tickell examines texts by both colonial and Indian authors, tracing their contending engagements with terrorizing violence in selected newspapers, journals, novels and short stories. The study includes readings of several significant early Indian-English works for the first time, from dissident periodicals like Hurrish Chunder Mookerjis Hindoo Patriot (1856-66) and Shyamji Krishnavarmas Indian Sociologist (1905-9) to neglected fictions such as Kylas Dutts parable of anti-colonial rebellion "Forty-Eight Hours of the Year 1945" (1845) and Sarath Kumar Ghoshs The Prince of Destiny (1909). These are examined alongside works by better-known Anglo-Indian authors such as Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug (1838), Flora Annie Steel's On the Face of the Waters (1897), Rudyard Kiplings short fictions and novels by Edmund Candler and E.M. Forster. The study concludes with an analysis of Indian-English fiction of the 1930s, notably Mulk Raj Anands Untouchable (1935), and goes on to read Gandhis philosophy of ahimsa (non-violence) as a strategic response to a colonial and nationalist terror-politics."

The Transnational in English Literature

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317608429
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book The Transnational in English Literature written by Pramod K. Nayar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Transnational in English Literature examines English literary history through its transnational engagements and argues that every period of English Literature can be examined through its global relations. English identity and nationhood is therefore defined through its negotiation with other regions and cultures. The first book to look at the entirety of English literature through a transnational lens, Pramod Nayar: Maps the discourses that constitute the global in every age, from the Early Modern to the twentieth century Offers readings of representative texts in poetry, fiction, essay and drama, covering a variety of genres such as Early Modern tragedy, the adventure novel, the narrative poem, Gothic and utopian fiction Examines major authors including Shakespeare, Defoe, Behn, Swift, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Austen, Mary Shelley, the Brontës, Doyle, Ballantyne, Orwell, Conrad, Kipling, Forster Looks at themes such as travel and discovery, exoticism, mercantilism, commodities, the civilisational mission and the multiculturalization of England. Useful for students and academics alike this book offers a comprehensive survey of the English canon questioning and analysing the transnational and global engagements of English literature.

Philanthropic Discourse in Anglo-American Literature, 1850–1920

Author : Frank Q. Christianson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253029880
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Philanthropic Discourse in Anglo-American Literature, 1850–1920 by : Frank Q. Christianson

Download or read book Philanthropic Discourse in Anglo-American Literature, 1850–1920 written by Frank Q. Christianson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Offers . . . a clearer insight into the scope and function of philanthropy in political and private life and the impacts that women writers and activists had.” —Edith Wharton Review From the mid-nineteenth century until the rise of the modern welfare state in the early twentieth century, Anglo-American philanthropic giving gained an unprecedented measure of cultural authority as it changed in kind and degree. Civil society took on the responsibility for confronting the adverse effects of industrialism, and transnational discussions of poverty, urbanization, and women’s work, and sympathy provided a means of understanding and debating social reform. While philanthropic institutions left a transactional record of money and materials, philanthropic discourse yielded a rich corpus of writing that represented, rationalized, and shaped these rapidly industrializing societies, drawing on and informing other modernizing discourses including religion, economics, and social science. Showing the fundamentally transatlantic nature of this discourse from 1850 to 1920, the authors gather a wide variety of literary sources that crossed national and colonial borders within the Anglo-American range of influence. Through manifestos, fundraising tracts, novels, letters, and pamphlets, they piece together the intellectual world where philanthropists reasoned through their efforts and redefined the public sector.

Desiring India: Representations through British and French Eyes 1584-1857

Author : Niranjan Goswami
Publisher : Jadavpur University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desiring India: Representations through British and French Eyes 1584-1857 written by Niranjan Goswami and published by Jadavpur University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reception and construction of the image of India by the Western, in particular French, German and English travellers, writers and thinkers is the theme of this volume, a collection of twelve essays by academics from sundry parts of the globe. Giving a new twist to Indological, philological or postcolonial understanding of travel narratives, the authors here attempt to give fresh impetus to the discovery of India story from perspectives of cultural history, historiography, ethnography, material culture, economic modes of production, fictional travel, epistolary discourse, theatrical representation of widowhood, women in the Mutiny, feminist reading of the Mughal court, colonial painting and classical music. Circumscribed by the dates of the arrival of Ralph Fitch, the first English traveller and the Mutiny, the first War of Indian Independence this anthology revives an interest in the early modern to the colonial appropriation of India in the Western imaginary.

British India and Victorian Literary Culture

Author : Maire ni Fhlathuin
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748699694
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book British India and Victorian Literary Culture written by Maire ni Fhlathuin and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British India and Victorian Culture extends current scholarship on the Victorian period with a wide-ranging and innovative analysis of the literature of British India.

Days of the Raj

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 014310280X
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Days of the Raj written by Pramod K. Nayar and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2009 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British India generated the largest imperial archive in the world. From the stacks of administrative reports, minutes, instruction manuals, memoirs, letters, reports, cook-books and travelogues the British left behind,

The Poetry of British India, 1780–1905 Vol 1

Author : Maire ni Fhlathuin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100074891X
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Poetry of British India, 1780–1905 Vol 1 written by Maire ni Fhlathuin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume reset edition draws together a selection of Anglo-Indian poetry from the Romantic era and the nineteenth century.

The Poetry of British India, 1780–1905

Author : Maire ni Fhlathuin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000743705
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Poetry of British India, 1780–1905 written by Maire ni Fhlathuin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume reset edition draws together a selection of Anglo-Indian poetry from the Romantic era and the nineteenth century.

English Siege and Prison Writings

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315300788
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book English Siege and Prison Writings written by Pramod K. Nayar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together an unusual collection of British captivity writings – composed during and after imprisonment and in conditions of siege. Writings from the ‘Mutiny’ of 1857 are well known, but there exists a vast body of texts, from Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Burma, and the Indian subcontinent, that have rarely been compiled or examined. Written in anxiety and distress, or recalled with poignancy and anger, these siege narratives depict a very different Briton. A far cry from the triumphant conqueror, explorer or ruler, these texts give us the vulnerable, injured and frightened Englishman and woman who seek, in the most adverse of conditions, to retain a measure of stoicism and identity. From Robert Knox’s 17th-century account of imprisonment in Sri Lanka, through J. Z. Holwell’s famous account of the ‘Black Hole’ of Calcutta, through Florentia Sale’s Afghan memoir, and Lady Inglis’s ‘Mutiny’ diary from Lucknow, the book opens up a dark and revealing corner of the colonial archive. Lucid and intriguing, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asia, colonial history, literary and culture studies.

Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India

Author : Nitin Sinha
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783083115
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India written by Nitin Sinha and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a regional focus on Bihar between the 1760s and 1880s, ‘Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India’ reveals the shifting and contradictory nature of the colonial state’s policies and discourses on communication. The volume explores the changing relationship between trade, transport and mobility in India, as evident in the trading and mercantile networks operating at various scales of the economy. Of crucial importance to this study are the ways in which knowledge about roads and routes was collected through practices of travel, tours, surveys, and map-making, all of which benefited the state in its attempts to structure a regime that would regulate ‘undesirable’ forms of mobility.

Fiction, Film, and Indian Popular Cinema

Author : Florian Stadtler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135964300
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Book Synopsis Fiction, Film, and Indian Popular Cinema by : Florian Stadtler

Download or read book Fiction, Film, and Indian Popular Cinema written by Florian Stadtler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the novels of Salman Rushdie and their stylistic conventions in the context of Indian popular cinema and its role in the elaboration of the author’s arguments about post-independence postcolonial India. Focusing on different genres of Indian popular cinema, such as the ‘Social’, ‘Mythological’ and ‘Historical’, Stadtler examines how Rushdie’s writing foregrounds the epic, the mythic, the tragic and the comic, linking them in storylines narrated in cinematic parameters. The book shows that Indian popular cinema’s syncretism becomes an aesthetic marker in Rushdie’s fiction that allows him to elaborate on the multiplicity of Indian identity, both on the subcontinent and abroad, and illustrates how Rushdie uses Indian popular cinema in his narratives to express an aesthetics of hybridity and a particular conceptualization of culture with which ‘India’ has become identified in a global context. Also highlighted are Rushdie’s uses of cinema to inflect his reading of India as a pluralist nation and of the hybrid space occupied by the Indian diaspora across the world. The book connects Rushdie’s storylines with modes of cinematic representation to explore questions about the role, place and space of the individual in relation to a fast-changing social, economic and political space in India and the wider world.

Chutnefying English

Author : Rita Kothari
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 0143416391
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Chutnefying English written by Rita Kothari and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2011 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles."Something has happened to English; and something has happened to Hindi. These two languages, widely spoken across India, need to be understood anew through their 'hybridization' into Hinglish -- a mixture of Hindi and English that has begun to make itself heard everywhere -- from daily conversation to news, films, advertisements and blogs. How did this popular form of urban communication evolve? Is this language the new and trendy idiom of a youthful population no longer competent in either English or Hindi? Or is it an Indianized version of a once-colonial language, claiming its legitimate place alongside India's many bhashas? Chutnefying English: The Phenomenon of Hinglish, the first book on the subject, takes a serious look at this widespread phenomenon of our times which has pervaded every aspect of our daily lives. It addresses the questions that many speakers of both languages ask time and again: should Hinglish be spurned as the bastard offspring of its two parent languages, or welcomed as the natural and legitimate result of their long-term cohabitation? Leading scholars from literature, cultural studies, translation, cinema and new media come together to offer a collection of essays that is refreshingly new in thought and content."--Page 2 of cover.

Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel

Author : Neelam Srivastava
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134142218
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Book Synopsis Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel by : Neelam Srivastava

Download or read book Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel written by Neelam Srivastava and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

Author : Rehana Ahmed
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136473408
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Book Synopsis Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing by : Rehana Ahmed

Download or read book Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing written by Rehana Ahmed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction by writers of Muslim background forms one of the most diverse, vibrant and high-profile corpora of work being produced today - from the trail-blazing writing of Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi, which challenged political and racial orthodoxies in the 1980s, to that of a new generation including Mohsin Hamid, Nadeem Aslam and Kamila Shamsie. This collection reflects the variety of those fictions. Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. In considering the perceptions of Muslims, contributors also explore the roles of immigration, class, gender, and national identity, as well as the impact of 9/11. This volume includes essays on contemporary fiction by writers of Muslim origin and non-Muslims writing about Muslims. It aims to push beyond the habitual populist 'framing' of Muslims as strangers or interlopers whose ways and beliefs are at odds with those of modernity, exposing the hide-bound, conservative assumptions that underpin such perspectives. While returning to themes that are of particular significance to diasporic Muslim cultures, such as secularism, modernity, multiculturalism and citizenship, the essays reveal that 'Muslim writing' grapples with the same big questions as serve to exercise all writers and intellectuals at the present time: How does one reconcile the impulses of the individual with the requirements of community? How can one 'belong' in the modern world? What is the role of art in making sense of chaotic contemporary experience?

Colonial Voices

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118278976
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Colonial Voices written by Pramod K. Nayar and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible cultural history explores 400 years of British imperial adventure in India, developing a coherent narrative through a wide range of colonial documents, from exhibition catalogues to memoirs and travelogues. It shows how these texts helped legitimize the moral ambiguities of colonial rule even as they helped the English fashion themselves. An engaging examination of European colonizers’ representations of native populations Analyzes colonial discourse through an impressive range of primary sources, including memoirs, letters, exhibition catalogues, administrative reports, and travelogues Surveys 400 years of India’s history, from the 16th century to the end of the British Empire Demonstrates how colonial discourses naturalized the racial and cultural differences between the English and the Indians, and controlled anxieties over these differences

Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature

Author : Laura Barberán Reinares
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131766793X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Book Synopsis Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature by : Laura Barberán Reinares

Download or read book Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature written by Laura Barberán Reinares and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At present, the bulk of the existing research on sex trafficking originates in the social sciences. Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature adds an original perspective on this issue by examining representations of sex trafficking in postcolonial literature. This book is a sustained interdisciplinary study bridging postcolonial literature, in English and Spanish, and sex trafficking, as analyzed through literary theory, anthropology, sociology, history, trauma theory, journalism, and globalization studies. It encompasses postcolonial theory and literature’s aesthetic analysis of sex trafficking together with research from social sciences, psychology, anthropology, and economics with the intention of offering a comprehensive analysis of the topic beyond the type of Orientalist discourse so prevalent in the media. This is an important and innovative resource for scholars in literature, postcolonial studies, gender studies, human rights and global justice.