"This book sheds new light on the dynamics of the colonial encounter between Britain and India. It highlights how various analytical approaches to this encounter can be creatively mobilised to re-think entanglements of memory and identity emerging from British rule in the subcon…
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 Memory and identity -- I Colonial memory -- 1 Memory, place and British memorials in early Calcutta: transcript of a lecture by Pete…
"This book explores the problem of models and their limits over three interrelated sites in the first half of the nineteenth century: questions of landed property in a small area on the eastern coast of British India called Cuttack, debates over the method and categories of poli…