"In this engaging and innovative history of the communist movement in colonial India, Ali Raza reveals the lives, geographies, and anti-colonial struggles of Indian revolutionaries and how they sought to remake the world. Driven by the utopian visions of Communist Internationali…
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ENGLISH IMPERIAL CULTURE: Home and Harem: Domesticity, Gender, and Nationalism. Empire and the Movement for Women's Suffrage in Britain. The Guidebook and the Museum -- EUROIMPERIAL TRAVEL AND INDIAN WOMEN. The Culture of Travel and the Gendering of Colonial Modernity in Ninetee…
"This groundbreaking work offers a sensory history of the British in India from the formal imposition of their rule to its end (1857-1947) and the Americans in the Philippines from annexation to independence (1898-1946). A social and cultural history of empire, it analyzes how t…
"This groundbreaking work offers a sensory history of the British in India from the formal imposition of their rule to its end (1857-1947) and the Americans in the Philippines from annexation to independence (1898-1946). A social and cultural history of empire, it analyzes how t…
Azad Hyderabad in the age of empire and nationalism -- The battle for Hyderabad -- Foundational violence : state and society in partitioned Punjab -- Nation and narration : testimony, citizenship, and sovereignty -- An Indian Yan'an : Telangana, 1946-52 -- The camp and the citiz…
Azad Hyderabad in the age of empire and nationalism -- The battle for Hyderabad -- Foundational violence : state and society in partitioned Punjab -- Nation and narration : testimony, citizenship, and sovereignty -- An Indian Yan'an : Telangana, 1946-52 -- The camp and the citiz…
Alimentary tracts: appetites, aversions, and the postcolonial
by Roy, Parama
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Examines the cultural politics and poetics of appetite and food in post/colonial South Asia.
Examines the cultural politics and poetics of appetite and food in post/colonial South Asia.
"The Partition of British India in 1947 resulted in the establishment of the independent states of India and Pakistan and the end of the British Raj. The decision to divide British India along religious lines led to widespread upheaval and communal violence in the period leading…
The last days of the Raj bring to mind Gandhi's nonviolence and Nehru's diplomacy. These associations obscure another reality: that an army of Indian men and women tried to throw the British off the subcontinent. Now The Forgotten Army brings to life for the first time the story…
"The Partition is probably the most cataclysmic event in the history of Twentieth-century India. It has had a profound impact on contemporary culture, literature, history and historiography. The impression left on the minds of those who lived through those traumatic times persis…
Light was central to the visual politics and imaginative geographies of empire, even beyond its role as a symbol of knowledge and progress in post-Enlightenment narratives. This book describes how imperial mappings of geographical space in terms of 'cities of light' and 'hearts …
"In 1761 Richard Owen Cambridge published An Account of the War in India, telling the story of a decade of conflict between British and French forces in the south of the sub-continent. While this work says nothing about the 1757 battle of Plassey and the subsequent revolution th…
