Britain's Imperial Muse explores the classics' contribution to British imperialism and to the experience of empire in India through the long 19th century. It reveals the classics role as a foundational source for positive conceptions of empire and a rhetorical arsenal used by co…
Part 1. Investigating cultural practices, fashioning identities, and travel literature -- John Locke's India : religion, revelation, and enthusiasm / Daniel Carey -- Encountering the 'Sati' : Early modern English travel narratives and the politics of exoticization / Rita Banerje…
"This book explores the social and cultural histories of India, focusing on cultural encounters and representations of subaltern communities from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. Examining cultural encounters between Europeans and Indians during the pre-colonial and …
This book explores the social and cultural histories of India, focusing on cultural encounters and representations of subaltern communities from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. Examining cultural encounters between Europeans and Indians during the precolonial and co…
Pulling together many subject areas into one, this study of the Anglo/ Indian silk trade shows the complexity of the Empire by linking usually disparate histories. In this book, Brenda M. King challenges the notion that Britain always exploited its empire. Creativity, innovatio…
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…
Moving across academic disciplines, geographical boundaries, and literary genres, Home and Harem examines how travel shaped ideas about culture and nation in nineteenth-century imperialist England and colonial India. Inderpal Grewal's study of the narratives and discourses of tr…