Details

Subject(s)

• India—Civilization—1765-1947 [Browse]
• India—History—British occupation, 1765-1947 [Browse]
• India—History [Browse]

Related name

• Gooptu, Nandini [Browse]
• Peers, Douglas M. [Browse]

Series

• Oxford history of the British Empire companion series. [More in this series]
• The Oxford history of the British Empire. Companion series

Summary note

Essays by leading historians from around the world combine to create a timely and authoritative assessment of a number of the major themes in the history of modern South Asia.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 23, 2013).

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. State, Power, and Colonialism; 3. The Indian Economy and the British Empire; 4. Knowledge Formation in Colonial India; 5. Colonialism and Social Identities in Flux: Class, Caste, and Religious Community; 6. Nationalisms in India; 7. Law, Authority, and Colonial Rule; 8. Networks of Knowledge: Science and Medicine in Early Colonial India, c.1750-1820; 9. Environment and Ecology Under British Rule; 10. The Material and Visual Culture of British India; 11. Literary Modernity in South Asia
• 12. Gendering of Public and Private Selves in Colonial Times13. The Desi Diaspora: Politics, Protest, and Nationalism; 14. The Political Legacy of Colonialism in South Asia; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

ISBN

• 0-19-251352-4
• 1-299-95647-5
• 0-19-163209-0

OCLC

859536722

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