ISBN:
9780520909489
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0520909488
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0585130698
,
9780585130699
,
0520067258
,
9780520067257
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 363 pages)
DDC:
306/.0954/75
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
;
Elite (Social sciences)
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Political science
;
Social history
;
Geschichte
;
Politische Wissenschaft
;
Sozialgeschichte
;
Elite (Social sciences) History
;
Politische Kultur
;
Geschichte
;
Indien
;
Surat
;
Surat
;
Politische Kultur
;
Geschichte
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-356) and index
,
This book explores the rhetoric and ritual of Indian elites undercolonialism, focusing on the city of Surat in the Bombay Presidency. It particularly examines how local elites appropriated and modified the liberal representative discourse of Britain and thus fashioned a "public" culture that excluded the city's underclasses. Departing from traditional explanations that have seen this process as resulting from English education or radical transformations in society, Haynes emphasizes the importance of the unequal power relationship between the British and those Indians who struggled for political influence and justice within the colonial framework. A major contribution of the book is Haynes' analysis of the emergence and ultimate failure of Ghandian cultural meanings in Indian politics after 1923. The book addresses issues of importance to historians and anthropologists of India, to political scientists seeking to understand the origins of democracy in the "Third World," and general readers interested in comprehending processes of cultural change in colonial contexts.--Publisher description
