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The book examines the representation of women, their agency and
subjectivity, and gender relations in 18th and 19th-century India.
The essays in the volume interrogate notions and discourses of
‘women’ and ‘gender’ during the period, historically shaped
by multiple and even competing actors, practices and institutions.
They highlight the ‘making of the woman’ across a wide spectrum
of subject areas, regions and roles, and attempt to understand the
contradictions and differences in social experiences and identity
formations of women. The volume also deals with prevalent notions
of masculinity and femininity, normative and non-conformist
expressions of gender and sexual identity, and epistemological
concerns of gender, especially in its intersectional interplay with
other axes of caste, class, race, region, and empire. Presenting
unique understandings of our gendered pasts, this volume will be of
great interest to scholars and researchers of history, gender
studies and South Asian studies.
This book examines interactions between Britain and India through
the analytical framework of the production and circulation of
knowledge throughout the long eighteenth century. Disciplined
Subjects is one of the first works to analyse the imperial school
curriculum, and the ways in which it shaped and influenced Indian
subjectivity. The author focuses on the endeavours of the colonial
government, missionaries and native stakeholders in determining the
physical, material and intellectual content of institutional
learning in India. Further, the volume compares the changes in
pedagogical practices, and textbooks in schools in Britain and
colonial Bengal, and its subsequent repercussions on the psyche and
identity of the learners. Drawing on a host of primary sources in
the UK and India, this volume will be of great interest to scholars
and researchers of modern history, education, sociology and South
Asian studies.
This book studies the exclusive refractive perspectives of British
women who took up the twin challenges of travel and writing when
Britain was establishing itself as the greatest empire on earth.
Contributors explore the ways in which travel writing has defined
women's engagement with Empire and British identity, and was
inextricably linked with the issue of identity formation. With a
capacious geographical canvas, this volume examines the
multifaceted relations and negotiations of British women travellers
in a range of different imperial contexts across continents from
America, Africa, Europe to Australia.
This book presents an alternate history of colonial India in the
18th and the 19th centuries. It traces the transitions and
transformations during this period through art, literature, music,
theatre, satire, textiles, regime changes, personal histories and
migration. The essays in the volume examine historical events and
movements which questioned the traditional parameters of identity
and forged a new direction for the people and the nation. Viewing
the age through diverse disciplinary angles, the book also reflects
on the various reimaginings of India at the time. This volume will
be of interest to academics and researchers of modern Indian
history, cultural studies and literature. It will also appeal to
scholars interested in the anthropological, sociological and
psychological contexts of imperialism.
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Jan Braai
Hardcover
R590
R425
Discovery Miles 4 250
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