Being English: Indian Middle Class and the Desire for Anglicisation

ISBN-13: 9780367408589 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 162 str.

Sayan Chattopadhyay

Opis

This book critically examines the cultural desire for anglicization of the Indian middle class in the context of postcolonial India.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements. Introduction: Contours of Englishness in Colonial India 1. Nineteenth-century Bengal and the Emergence of Indian Middle-Class Anglicization 2 Images of Indian Womanhood and the "English" Self of Cornelia Sorabji 3. The Tradition of National Autobiographies and Nirad Chaudhuri’s Homeward Journey to England 4. Anglicization, Citizenship, and Nirad Chaudhuri’s Critique of the Colonial Metropolis 5. Dom Moraes’s Anglicization and the Ambiguity of Return 6. Coda: Anglicization and Aporia. Bibliography. Index.