Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
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HTML; Digitalisierungsvorlage: Primärausgabe
Edition:
Oakland, Calif. Univ. of California 2003 eScholarship editions
DDC:
305.89141104109034
Keywords:
Malabari, Behramji M. Travel
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Great Britain
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Ramabai Sarasvati, Pandita Travel
;
Great Britain
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Sorabji, Cornelia Travel
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Great Britain
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East Indians History
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19th century
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Great Britain
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Imperialism History
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19th century
;
Great Britain Social life and customs
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19th century
;
Great Britain History
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Victoria, 1837-1901
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Great Britain Relations
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India
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India Relations
;
Great Britain
;
Great Britain Ethnic relations
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Großbritannien
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Inder
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Geschichte 1800-1900
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Malabari, Behramji Merwanji 1853-1912
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Ramabai Pandita 1858-1922
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Sorabji, Cornelia 1865-1954
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Großbritannien
;
Soziale Wirklichkeit
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
Abstract:
Antoinette Burton focuses on the experiences of three Victorian travelers in Britain to illustrate how "Englishness" was made and remade in relation to imperialism. The accounts left by these three sojourners - all prominent, educated Indians - represent complex, critical ethnographies of "native" metropolitan society and offer revealing glimpses of what it was like to be a colonial subject in fin-de-siècle Britain. Burton's innovative interpretation of the travelers' testimonies shatters the myth of Britain's insularity from its own construction of empire and shows that it was instead a terrain open to continual contest and refiguration.Burton's three subjects felt the influence of imperial power keenly during even the most everyday encounters in Britain. Pandita Ramabai arrived in London in 1883 seeking a medical education and left in 1886, having resisted the Anglican Church's attempts to make her an evangelical missionary. Cornelia Sorabji went to Oxford to study law and became the first Indian woman to be called to the Bar. Behramji Malabari sought help for his Indian reform projects in England, and subjected London to colonial scrutiny in the process. Their experiences form the basis of this wide-ranging, clearly written, and imaginative investigation of diasporic movement in the colonial metropolis.
Note:
A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program
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