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Author:   Harald Fischer-Tiné ,  Michael Mann
Publisher:   Anthem Press
Imprint:   Anthem Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781843310921

ISBN 10:   1843310929
Pages:   362
Publication Date:   01 March 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

'Torchbearers Upon the Path of Progress': Britain's Ideology of a 'Moral and Material Progress' in India. An Introductory Essay; PART I: TRIAL AND ERROR: 1. Dealing with Oriental Despotism: British Jurisdiction in Bengal, 1772-93; 2. 'A Race of Monters': South India and the British 'Civilizing Mission' in the Later Eighteenth Century; 3. Between Non-Interference in Matters of Religion and the Civilizing Mission: The Prohibition of Suttee in 1829; PART II: ORDERING AND MODERNIZING: 4. 'The Bridge-Builders': Some Notes on Railways, Pilgrimage and the British 'Civilizing Mission' in Colonial India; 5. Taming the 'Dangerous' Rajput; Family, Marriage and Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century Colonial North India; 6. What Is Your 'Caste'? The Classification of Indian Society as Part of the British Civilizing Mission; PART III: BODY AND MIND: 7. Sporting and the 'Civilizing Mission' in India, 8. 'More Important to Civilize Than Subdue'? Lunatic Asylums, Psychiatric Practice and Fantasies of 'the Civilizing Mission' in British India 1858-1900; 9. The Sympathizing Hear and the Healing Hand: Smallpox Prevention and Medical Benevolences in Early Colonial South India; 10. Perceptions of Sanitation and Medicine in Bombay, 1900-1914; PART IV: THE CIVILIZING MISSION INTERNALIZED: 11. National Education, Pulp Fiction and the Contradictions of Colonialism: Perceptions of an Educational Experiment in Early-Twentieth-Century India; 12. In Search of the Indigenous: J C Kumarappa and the Philosophy of 'Gandhian Economics'; 13. The Civilizational Obsessions of Ghulam Jilani Barq; Notes, Index

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<p>'What is intellectually stimulating is the variety that this volume offers - the ways in which individual essays bring into light a new body of archival sources as well as the manner in which eash essay offers a specific geographical-cultural episode of a larger pan-Indian narrative around the colonial civilizing mission. ' --Srirupa Prasad, 'Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History'

"'What is intellectually stimulating is the variety that this volume offers - the ways in which individual essays bring into light a new body of archival sources as well as the manner in which eash essay offers a specific geographical-cultural episode of a larger pan-Indian narrative around the colonial ""civilizing mission.""' -Srirupa Prasad, 'Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History'"

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Harald Fischer-Tine is Professor of History at the ETH Zrich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich). Michael Mann is Assistant Professor and Senior Lecturer at the Fern Universitaet, Hagen.

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