This book presents an alternate history of colonial India in the 18th and the 19th centuries. It traces the transitions and transformations during this period through art, literature, music, theatre, satire, textiles, regime changes, personal histories and migration. The essays …
This book studies the exclusive refractive perspectives of British women who took up the twin challenges of travel and writing when Britain was establishing itself as the greatest empire on earth. Contributors explore the ways in which travel writing has defined women's engageme…
This book studies the exclusive refractive perspectives of British women who took up the twin challenges of travel and writing when Britain was establishing itself as the greatest empire on earth. Contributors explore the ways in which travel writing has defined women's engageme…
'British Women Missionaries in Bengal, 1793-1861' looks at the arrival of the early British women missionaries in Bengal, especially when travelling to India or working in missions was neither a spontaneous nor an acceptable career decision for white women. The book aims to thro…
'British Women Missionaries in Bengal, 1793-1861' looks at the role and contributions of the early British women missionaries in Bengal, in eastern India, between 1793 and 1861. It traces the role of and challenges faced by women missionaries from Hannah Marshman to Hannah Mulle…
This book examines interactions between Britain and India through the analytical frame of production and circulation of knowledge in the long eighteenth century. Disciplined Subjects is one of the first works to analyse the imperial school curriculum, and the ways in which it sh…
"This book examines interactions between Britain and India through the analytical frame of production and circulation of knowledge in the long eighteenth century. Disciplined Subjects is one of the first works to analyse the imperial school curriculum, and the ways in which it s…
"This book examines interactions between Britain and India through the analytical frame of production and circulation of knowledge in the long eighteenth century. Disciplined Subjects is one of the first works to analyse the imperial school curriculum, and the ways in which it s…