Colonial Origins Of Modernity In India

Author : Sagar Simlandy
Publisher : BFC Publications
Page : 219 pages
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Release : 2022-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789356324282

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Colonial Origins Of Modernity In India by Sagar Simlandy Pdf

Our main discussion in this book Indian society, polity and culture of the colonial period. Indian society in the 19th century was caught in an inhuman web created by religious superstition and social obscuration. Hinduism, has become a compound of magic, animation and superstition and monstrous rites like animal sacrifice and physical torture had replaced the worship of God. The most painful was position of women. The British conquest and dissemination colonial culture and ideology led to introspection about the strength and weakness of indigenous culture and civilization. The social reform movements which emerged in India in the 19th century arose to the challenges that colonial Indian society faced. The well-known issues are that of sati, child marriage, ban on widow remarriage and caste discrimination. It is not that attempts were not made to fight social discrimination in pre-colonial India. They were central to Buddhism, to Bhakti and Sufi movements. What marked these 19th century social reform attempts were the modern context and mix of ideas. It was a creative combination of modern ideas of western liberalism and a new look on traditional literature.We hope that students will benefited a lot from reading this book.

Author : Margrit Pernau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190990824

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Emotions and Modernity in Colonial India by Margrit Pernau Pdf

With this pioneering project, Margrit Pernau brings the ‘history of emotions’ approach to South Asian studies. A theoretically sophisticated and erudite investigation, Emotions and Modernity in Colonial India maps the history of emotions in India between the uprising of 1857 and World War I. Situating the prevalent experiences, interpretations, and practices of emotions of the time within the context of the major political events of colonial India, Pernau goes beyond the dominant narrative of colonial modernity and its fixation with discipline and restrain, and traces the contemporary transformation from a balance in emotions to the resurgence of fervor. The current volume is based on a large archive of sources in Urdu, many being explored for the first time. Pernau grounds her work on such diverse sources as philosophical and theological treatises on questions of morality, advice literature, journals and newspapers, nostalgic descriptions of courtly culture, and even children’s literature. This close look into individual experiences, practices, and interpretations reveals the myriad emotions of the day, and the importance of these micro-histories in presenting an alternative account of colonial India.

Author : Pradip Basu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : India
ISBN : 9380677138

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Colonial Modernity by Pradip Basu Pdf

Author : Ishita Banerjee-Dube
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 110706547X

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A History of Modern India by Ishita Banerjee-Dube Pdf

This book provides an interpretive and comprehensive account of the history of India between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, a crucial epoch characterized by colonialism, nationalism and the emergence of the independent Indian Union. It explores significant historiographical debates concerning the period while highlighting important new issues, especially those of gender, ecology, caste, and labour. The work combines an analysis of colonial and independent India in order to underscore ideologies, policies, and processes that shaped the colonial state and continue to mould the Indian nation.

Author : Bipan Chandra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : India
ISBN : PSU:000033970363

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Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India by Bipan Chandra Pdf

The author discusses in detail the twin phenomena of colonialism and nationalism that has loomed large over the historical canvas of modern India. The nature of British colonialism, colonial policies and strategies of economic growth have been examined within the parameters of the colonial structure. A unique feature of the book is the description of the Pressure-Compromise-Pressure Strategy employed by the British to consolidate power. Probable reasons for the failure of the nationalist movement to counter disruptive colonial forces have been suggested. In effect, Colonialism has been studied as a distinct structure through its different stages. Reinterpreting this period that spanned 150 years, the book provides an alternative framework for the study of modern Indian history.

Author : S. Mohanty
Publisher : Springer
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230118348

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Colonialism, Modernity, and Literature by S. Mohanty Pdf

The product of years of cross-border and cross-disciplinary collaboration, this is an innovative volume of essays situated at the intersection of multi-disciplinary fields: postcolonial/subaltern theory; comparative literary analysis, especially with a South Asian and transnational focus; the study of 'alternative' and 'indigenous' modernities

Author : Paul Gillen,Devleena Ghosh
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0868407356

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Colonialism & Modernity by Paul Gillen,Devleena Ghosh Pdf

Few books tell such a broad global history using an interdisciplinary approach that blends historical and cultural scholarship. Author based at UTS.

Author : K. N. Panikkar
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123218815

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Colonialism, Culture, and Resistance by K. N. Panikkar Pdf

How did resistance to colonialism form a source of alternative modernity in India? Why did the process fail to strike roots? Building upon four decades of serious research, this unique collection discusses different forms of resistance to colonialism and their role in the formation ofalternative modernity. It also provides an engaging account of the development of political and cultural consciousness in the subcontinent. Investigating three areas of resistance - armed uprising, intellectual dissent, and cultural protest - K.N. Panikkar argues that these were informed by a vision of a condition beyond colonialism in which tradition and modernity selectively, but creatively, came together. This had manifestations inseveral fields of cultural and intellectual concern - social ideas, cultural practices, scientific enquiries, and literary and artistic creativity. According to the author a creative dialogue between tradition and modernity was crowded out of public space by the dual pressures of revivalism and colonial modernity. The void thus created was filled either by the culture of the capitalist west intially provided by colonial modernity or by theobscurantism of tradition, currently being elaborated and advocated by Hindutva. The failure of alternative modernity has also led to an uncritical acceptance of globalization and sympathetic response to cultural revivalism. Based on a variety of sources, in both English and regional languages, thisvolume provides a new interpretation of the intellectual and cultural history of colonial India.

Author : Gyan Prakash
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691214214

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Another Reason by Gyan Prakash Pdf

Another Reason is a bold and innovative study of the intimate relationship between science, colonialism, and the modern nation. Gyan Prakash, one of the most influential historians of India writing today, explores in fresh and unexpected ways the complexities, contradictions, and profound importance of this relationship in the history of the subcontinent. He reveals how science served simultaneously as an instrument of empire and as a symbol of liberty, progress, and universal reason--and how, in playing these dramatically different roles, it was crucial to the emergence of the modern nation. Prakash ranges over two hundred years of Indian history, from the early days of British rule to the dawn of the postcolonial era. He begins by taking us into colonial museums and exhibitions, where Indian arts, crafts, plants, animals, and even people were categorized, labeled, and displayed in the name of science. He shows how science gave the British the means to build railways, canals, and bridges, to transform agriculture and the treatment of disease, to reconstruct India's economy, and to transfigure India's intellectual life--all to create a stable, rationalized, and profitable colony under British domination. But Prakash points out that science also represented freedom of thought and that for the British to use it to practice despotism was a deeply contradictory enterprise. Seizing on this contradiction, many of the colonized elite began to seek parallels and precedents for scientific thought in India's own intellectual history, creating a hybrid form of knowledge that combined western ideas with local cultural and religious understanding. Their work disrupted accepted notions of colonizer versus colonized, civilized versus savage, modern versus traditional, and created a form of modernity that was at once western and indigenous. Throughout, Prakash draws on major and minor figures on both sides of the colonial divide, including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, the nationalist historian and novelist Romesh Chunder Dutt, Prafulla Chandra Ray (author of A History of Hindu Chemistry), Rudyard Kipling, Lord Dalhousie, and John Stuart Mill. With its deft combination of rich historical detail and vigorous new arguments and interpretations, Another Reason will recast how we understand the contradictory and colonial genealogy of the modern nation.

Author : Chandra,Bipan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8125008098

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Nationalism And Colonialism In Modern India by Chandra,Bipan Pdf

The Author Discusses In Detail The Twin Phenomena Of Colonialism And Nationalism That Has Loomed Large Over The Historical Canvas Of Modern India. The Nature Of British Colonialism, Colonial Policies And Strategies Of Economic Growth Have Been Examined Within The Parameters Of The Colonial Structure. A Unique Feature Of The Book Is The Description Of The Pressure-Compromise-Pressure Strategy Employed By The British To Consolidate Power. Probable Reasons For The Failure Of The Nationalist Movement To Counter Disruptive Colonial Forces Have Been Suggested. In Effect, Colonialism Has Been Studied As A Distinct Structure Through Its Different Stages. Reinterpreting This Period That Spanned 150 Years, The Book Provides An Alternative Framework For The Study Of Modern Indian History.

Author : Biswamoy Pati,Mark Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351262187

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Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India by Biswamoy Pati,Mark Harrison Pdf

The history of medicine and disease in colonial India remains a dynamic and innovative field of research, covering many facets of health, from government policy to local therapeutics. This volume presents a selection of essays examining varied aspects of health and medicine as they relate to the political upheavals of the colonial era. These range from the micro-politics of medicine in princely states and institutions such as asylums through to the wider canvas of sanitary diplomacy as well as the meaning of modernity and modernization in the context of British rule. The volume reflects the diversity of the field and showcases exciting new scholarship from early-career researchers as well as more established scholars by bringing to light many locations and dimensions of medicine and modernity. The essays have several common themes and together offer important insights into South Asia’s experience of modernity in the years before independence. Cutting across modernity and colonialism, some of the key themes explored here include issues of race, gender, sexuality, law, mental health, famine, disease, religion, missionary medicine, medical research, tensions between and within different medical traditions and practices and India’s place in an international context. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian history, sociology, politics and anthropology as well as specialists in the history of medicine.

Author : Durba Mitra
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691197029

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Indian Sex Life by Durba Mitra Pdf

How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in India During the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian intellectuals—philologists, administrators, doctors, ethnologists, sociologists, and social critics—deployed ideas about sexuality to understand modern Indian society. In Indian Sex Life, Durba Mitra shows how deviant female sexuality, particularly the concept of the prostitute, became foundational to this knowledge project and became the primary way to think and write about Indian society. Bringing together vast archival materials from diverse disciplines, Mitra reveals that deviant female sexuality was critical to debates about social progress and exclusion, caste domination, marriage, widowhood and inheritance, women's performance, the trafficking of girls, abortion and infanticide, industrial and domestic labor, indentured servitude, and ideologies about the dangers of Muslim sexuality. British authorities and Indian intellectuals used the concept of the prostitute to argue for the dramatic reorganization of modern Indian society around Hindu monogamy. Mitra demonstrates how the intellectual history of modern social thought is based in a dangerous civilizational logic built on the control and erasure of women's sexuality. This logic continues to hold sway in present-day South Asia and the postcolonial world. Reframing the prostitute as a concept, Indian Sex Life overturns long-established notions of how to write the history of modern social thought in colonial India, and opens up new approaches for the global history of sexuality.

Author : Adrian Carton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136325021

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Mixed-Race and Modernity in Colonial India by Adrian Carton Pdf

Focusing on Portuguese, British and French colonial spaces, this book traces changing concepts of mixed-race identity in early colonial India. Starting in the sixteenth century, it discusses how the emergence of race was always shaped by affiliations based on religion, class, national identity, gender and citizenship across empires. In the context of increasing British power, the book looks at the Anglo-French tensions of the eighteenth century to consider the relationship between modernity and race-making. Arguing that different forms of modernity produced divergent categories of hybridity, it considers the impact of changing political structures on mixed-race communities. With its emphasis on specificity, the book situates current and past debates on the mixed-race experience and the politics of whiteness in broader historical and global contexts. By contributing to the understanding of race-making as an aspect of colonial governance, the book illuminates some margins of colonial India that are often lost in the shadows of the British regime. It is of interest to academics of world history, postcolonial studies, South Asian imperial history and critical mixed-race studies.

Author : Michael Philipp Brunner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030535148

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Education and Modernity in Colonial Punjab by Michael Philipp Brunner Pdf

This book explores the localisation of modernity in late colonial India. As a case study, it focuses on the hitherto untold colonial history of Khalsa College, Amritsar, a pioneering and highly influential educational institution founded in the British Indian province of Punjab in 1892 by the religious minority community of the Sikhs. Addressing topics such as politics, religion, rural development, militarism or physical education, the study shows how Sikh educationalists and activists made use of and ‘localised’ communal, imperial, national and transnational discourses and knowledge. Their modernist visions and schemes transcended both imperialist and mainstream nationalist frameworks and networks. In its quest to educate the modern Sikh – scientific, practical, disciplined and physically fit – the college navigated between very local and global claims, opportunities and contingencies, mirroring modernity’s ambivalent simultaneity of universalism and particularism.

Author : Sanjay Joshi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0195645626

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Fractured Modernity by Sanjay Joshi Pdf

With special reference to Lucknow, India.