Public Women In British India
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Author | : Rimli Bhattacharya |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429016557 |
This book foregrounds the subjectivity of ‘acting women’ amidst violent debates on femininity and education, livelihood and labour, sexuality and marriage. It looks at the emergence of the stage actress as an artist and an ideological construct at critical phases of performance practice in British India. The focus here is on Calcutta, considered the ‘second city of the Empire’ and a nodal point in global trade circuits. Each chapter offers new ways of conceptualising the actress as a professional, a colonial subject, simultaneously the other and the model of the ‘new woman’. An underlying motif is the playing out of the idea of spiritual salvation, redemption and modernity. Analysing the dynamics behind stagecraft and spectacle, the study highlights the politics of demarcation and exclusion of social roles. It presents rich archival work from diverse sources, many translated for the first time. This book makes a distinctive contribution in intertwining performance studies with literary history and art practices within a cross-cultural framework. Interdisciplinary and innovative, it will appeal to scholars and researchers in South Asian theatre and performance studies, history and gender studies.
Author | : Geraldine Hancock Forbes |
Publisher | : Orient Blackswan |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : 9788180280177 |
This Collection Of Essays On Politics, Medicine And Historiography Is About Those India Women Who Began To Be Educated And To Pay Some Role In Public Life.
Author | : Indrani Sen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Anglo-Indian fiction |
ISBN | : 9788125033462 |
Drawing upon a wide range and variety of literary and non-literary sources of nineteenth century British India, Woman and Empire examines perceptions of gender over the 1858 1900 period. The book focuses on representations of white and Indian women, in addition to women of mixed races, in fiction as well as in colonial newspapers and journals.
Author | : Shashi Tharoor |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780141987149 |
Inglorious Empire' tells the real story of the British in India from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj, revealing how Britain's rise was built upon its plunder of India. In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation. British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor takes on and demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial "gift" - from the railways to the rule of law -was designed in Britain's interests alone. He goes on to show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India's deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile industry.
Author | : Mark Harrison |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1994-02-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521466882 |
After years of neglect the last decade has witnessed a surge of interest in the medical history of India under colonial rule. This is the first major study of public health in British India. It covers many previously unresearched areas such as European attitudes towards India and its inhabitants, and the way in which these were reflected in medical literature and medical policy; the fate of public health at local level under Indian control; and the effects of quarantine on colonial trade and the pilgrimage to Mecca. The book places medicine within the context of debates about the government of India, and relations between rulers and ruled. In emphasising the active role of the indigenous population, and in its range of material, it differs significantly from most other work conducted in this subject area.
Author | : David Gilmour |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 641 |
Release | : 2018-11-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0374116857 |
An immersive portrait of the lives of the British in India, from the seventeenth century to Independence Who of the British went to India, and why? We know about Kipling and Forster, Orwell and Scott, but what of the youthful forestry official, the enterprising boxwallah, the fervid missionary? What motivated them to travel halfway around the globe, what lives did they lead when they got there, and what did they think about it all? Full of spirited, illuminating anecdotes drawn from long-forgotten memoirs, correspondence, and government documents, The British in India weaves a rich tapestry of the everyday experiences of the Britons who found themselves in “the jewel in the crown” of the British Empire. David Gilmour captures the substance and texture of their work, home, and social lives, and illustrates how these transformed across the several centuries of British presence and rule in the subcontinent, from the East India Company’s first trading station in 1615 to the twilight of the Raj and Partition and Independence in 1947. He takes us through remote hill stations, bustling coastal ports, opulent palaces, regimented cantonments, and dense jungles, revealing the country as seen through British eyes, and wittily reveling in all the particular concerns and contradictions that were a consequence of that limited perspective. The British in India is a breathtaking accomplishment, a vivid and balanced history written with brio, elegance, and erudition.
Author | : Charu Gupta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Erotic literature |
ISBN | : |
With reference to Hindu and Muslim ethics and relation to social problems; a study of Uttar Pradesh.
Author | : Joseph Chailley-Bert |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 618 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This book offers an in-depth analysis of the administrative problems faced by British India. It covers a wide range of topics related to governance, including education, public works, sanitation, and the judicial system. The authors bring a wealth of knowledge to the subject, making this book a valuable resource for anyone interested in British India. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Jessica Hinchy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2019-04-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110849255X |
Examines the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality through the history of transgender Hijras in north India.
Author | : Edward John Tilt |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781019674512 |
This book offers a comprehensive guide to the health challenges faced by British women living in colonial India. Written by Edward John Tilt, a leading physician and public health advocate of the mid-19th century, the book provides practical advice on how to prevent and treat the many illnesses and ailments that were prevalent in India at that time. With its detailed descriptions and insightful recommendations, 'Health in India for British Women' is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history of medicine and public health in colonial India. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.