Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World

by Chaudhuri, Supriya

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Title Statements

Full title :Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World

Summary

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- A world of commodities -- Reading commodities -- The cultures of commodities -- Notes -- SECTION I: Making and showing -- 1. Mughal Delhi on my lapel: The charmed life of the painted ivory miniature in Delhi, 1827-1880 -- The last Mughal souvenir: Mughal subversion of the colonial image-gift -- From connoisseur to consumer: Mughal miniatures in Anglo-Indian Delhi -- Contextualizing Mughalerie -- Afterlife: The Delhi ivory miniature in the marketplace -- Notes -- 2. Plates and bangles: Early recorded music in India -- Notes -- 3. The Overland Mail: Moving panoramas and the imagining of trade and communication networks -- Notes -- 4. Exhibiting India: Colonial subjects, imperial objects, and the lives of commodities -- Notes -- SECTION II: Place and environment -- 5. The composition and decomposition of commodities: The colonial careers of coal and ivory -- Coal -- Ivory -- Notes -- 6. Profaning water: The sacred and its others -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Notes -- 7. Settling the land: The village and the threat of capital in the novel in Goa -- Linearity and commodification -- Origin stories and history -- Pre-lapsarian economies -- Naturalizing the settler -- The sea in geological time -- Realism and ethnography -- Notes -- SECTION III: Labour and migration -- 8. (Re)moving bodies: People, ships and other commodities in the coolie trade from Calcutta -- Notes -- 9. Anxiety, affect and authenticity: The commodification of nineteenth-century emigrants' letters -- Becoming print -- Emigrant tokens -- Producing authenticity -- Notes -- 10. Towards a genealogy of the village in the nineteenth-century British colonial world: Mary Russell Mitford and Henry Sumner Maine -- The village tale

Village communities -- Village spectacles -- Notes -- SECTION IV: Texts in motion -- 11. Indigo and print: The case of the 'Indigo-Planting Mirror' -- Notes -- 12. Al jabr w'al muqabila: H.S. Hall, Macmillan and the coming together of things far apart -- Notes -- 13. Ulysses in 'darkest Africa': Transporting Tennyson with H.M. Stanley and Edwin Arnold -- Tennyson's explorers -- Stanley's poets -- Edwin Arnold's African epic -- Notes -- 14. The traffic in representations: The case of Kipling's Kim -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017
Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Taylor and Francis
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017

The Physical Object

Description:1 Online-Ressource (243 Seiten)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781351620000, 1351620002, 9781138214736, 1138214736
oclc:on1021209315
LC Classification:JC359

Subjects

British colonies Commerce international Imperialism -- Economic aspects Imperialism -- Social aspects Imperialism in literature Impérialisme -- Aspect économique Impérialisme -- Aspect social Impérialisme dans la littérature international trade