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Chosen peoples demonstrates how biblical themes, ideas and
metaphors shaped racial, national and imperial identities in the
long nineteenth century. Even as radical new ideas challenged the
historicity of the Bible, biblical notions of lineage, descent and
inheritance continued to inform understandings of race, nation and
empire. European settler movements portrayed 'new' territories
across the seas as lands of Canaan, but if many colonised and
conquered peoples resisted the imposition of biblical narratives,
they also appropriated biblical tropes to their own ends. These
innovative case-studies throw new light on familiar areas such as
slavery, colonialism and the missionary project, while forging
exciting cross-comparisons between race, identity and the politics
of biblical translation and interpretation in South Africa, Egypt,
Australia, America and Ireland. -- .
Chosen peoples demonstrates how biblical themes, ideas and
metaphors shaped racial, national and imperial identities in the
long nineteenth century. Even as radical new ideas challenged the
historicity of the Bible, biblical notions of lineage, descent and
inheritance continued to inform understandings of race, nation and
empire. European settler movements portrayed 'new' territories
across the seas as lands of Canaan, but if many colonised and
conquered peoples resisted the imposition of biblical narratives,
they also appropriated biblical tropes to their own ends. These
innovative case-studies throw new light on familiar areas such as
slavery, colonialism and the missionary project, while forging
exciting cross-comparisons between race, identity and the politics
of biblical translation and interpretation in South Africa, Egypt,
Australia, America and Ireland. -- .
Conceptualised in opposition to 'orthodox' medicine, homoeopathy, a
western medical project originating in eighteenth-century Germany,
was reconstituted as vernacular medicine in British Bengal. India
went on to become the home of the largest population of users of
homoeopathic medicine in the world. Combining insights from the
history of colonial medicine and the cultural histories of family
in British India, Shinjini Das examines the processes through which
western homoeopathy was translated and indigenised in the colony as
a specific Hindu worldview, an economic vision and a disciplining
regimen. In tracing the localisation of German homoeopathy in a
British Indian province, this book analyses interactions between
Calcutta-based homoeopathic family firms, disparate contributors to
the Bengali print market, the British colonial state and emergent
nationalist governments. The history of homoeopathy in Bengal
reveals myriad negotiations undertaken by the colonised peoples to
reshape scientific modernity in the subcontinent.
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