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Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915 - Networks of British Empire (Paperback)
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Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915 - Networks of British Empire (Paperback)
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Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire explores the
rich and complicated landscape of intercultural contact between
Indians and Britons on British soil at the height of empire, as
reflected in a range of literary writing, including poetry and
life-writing. The book's four decade-based case studies, leading
from 1870 and the opening of the Suez Canal, to the first years of
the Great War, investigate from several different textual and
cultural angles the central place of India in the British
metropolitan imagination at this relatively early stage for Indian
migration. Focussing on a range of remarkable Indian 'arrivants' -
scholars, poets, religious seekers, and political activists
including Toru Dutt and Sarojini Naidu, Mohandas Gandhi and
Rabindranath Tagore - Indian Arrivals examines the take-up in the
metropolis of the influences and ideas that accompanied their
transcontinental movement, including concepts of the west and of
cultural decadence, of urban modernity and of cosmopolitan
exchange. If, as is now widely accepted, vocabularies of
inhabitation, education, citizenship and the law were in many cases
developed in colonial spaces like India, and imported into Britain,
then, the book suggests, the presence of Indian travellers and
migrants needs to be seen as much more central to Britain's
understanding of itself, both in historical terms and in relation
to the present-day. The book demonstrates how the colonial
encounter in all its ambivalence and complexity inflected social
relations throughout the empire, including at its heart, in Britain
itself: Indian as well as other colonial travellers enacted the
diversity of the empire on London's streets.
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