The other empire : metropolis, India and progress in the colonial imagination / John Marriott.
"This is a detailed study of the various ways in which London and India were imaginatively constructed by British observers during the nineteenth century. This process took place within an uneven field of knowledge that brought together travel and evangelical accounts to exert a formative influ...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full Text (via EBSCO) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Manchester, UK ; New York : New York :
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,
[2003]
|
| Series: | Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: metropolis and India
- The antinomies of progress
- Poverty and progress
- Slavery and progress
- Colonialism and progress
- Progress and the human order
- Progress and its antitheses
- Desarts of Africa or Arabia
- The needy villains' gen'ral home
- Tricks of the town
- The vast torrent of luxury
- India in European cosmography
- Forraigne sects
- The intimate connexion
- Discovery of the metropolitan residuum
- Gothic heaps of stone
- Late eighteenth-century travel in India
- Early evangelical activity
- The conversion of heathens
- A complete cyclopaedia
- Unknown London
- Metropolitan evangelicalism
- Racialization of the poor
- Wandering tribes
- Mayhew's legacy
- So immense an empire
- A new mode of observation
- The privilege of the traveller
- Racialization of India
- Castes of robbers and thieves
- In darkest England
- The meaning of dirt
- Degeneration and desire
- Crowds bred in the abyss
- Problems of the race
- The great museum of races
- Urban mythology
- Nascent ethnology
- 1857 and its aftermath
- Discovery of caste
- Race and progress.