ISBN:
1843318644
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9781843318644
Language:
English
Pages:
VI, 337 S.
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Ill.
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24 cm
Series Statement:
Anthem South Asian studies
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Civilizing missions in colonial and postcolonial South Asia
DDC:
325.3410954
Keywords:
Great Britain Colonies
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Social policy
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India Civilization
;
British influences
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India Colonial influence
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India History British occupation, 1765-1947
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Indien
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Großbritannien
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Kulturimperialismus
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Kolonisation
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Geschichte 1800-2010
Abstract:
"This collection demonstrates how the civilizing mission can serve as an analytical rubric with relevance to many themes in the colonial and postcolonial eras: economic development, state building, pacification, nationalism, cultural improvement, gender and generational relations, caste and untouchability, religion and missionaries, class relations, urbanization, NGOs and civil society."--From back cover
Note:
Introduction: the relevance and complexity of civilizing missions c. 1800-2010
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Conjecturing rudeness: James Mill's utilitarian philosophy of history and the British civilizing mission
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Art, artefacts and architecture: Lord Curzon, the Delhi Arts Exhibition of 1902-03 and the improvement of India's aesthetics
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Incorportaion and differentiation: popular education and the imperial civilizing mission in early nineteenth century India
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Reclaiming savages in 'darkest England' and 'darkest India': the Salvation Army as transnational agent of the civilizing mission
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Mediating modernity: colonial state, Indian nationalism and the renegotiation of the 'civilizing mission' in the Indian child marriage debate of 1927-1932
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'Civilizing sisters': writings on how to save women, men, society and the nation in late colonial India
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From 'social reform' to 'social service': Indian civic activism and the civilizing mission in colonial Bombay c. 1900-20
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Female infanticide and the civilizing mission in postcolonial India: a case study from Tamil Nadu c. 1980-2006
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Philanthropy and civilizing missions in India c. 1820-1960: states, NGOs and development
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Afterward: improvement, progress and development
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