Mapping India: Transitions and Transformations, 18th-19th Century

ISBN-13: 9781138506428 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 280 str.

Sutapa Dutta; Nilanjana Mukherjee

Opis

This book presents an alternate history of colonial India in the 18th and the 19th centuries and traces the transitions and transformations during this period through art, literature, music, theatre, satire, textile, regime changes, personal histories, and migration.

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List of Figures. Acknowledgements. Contributors. Introduction Sutapa Dutta And Nilanjana Mukherjee Part I Space, Place and Displacement 1. Imperial Guidebooks for Charting India Sutapa Dutta 2. Scottish Resonances in James Baillie Fraser's Travel Accounts Nilanjana Mukherjee 3. The Correct View: Ethnographic Representation of Darjeeling Hill Tribes, from Drawings to Photography Agastaya Thapa 4. Patterns of Migration and Formation of Indian Diaspora in Colonial India Amba Pande Part II Regional Formations and Movements 5. The Struggle over a Mughal Office: The English Response to Maratha expansionism along Coastal Western India in 1733 Vijayant K. Singh 6. Pre-Modern Cosmopolitanism: A Challenge to Ladakh’s ‘Tibetanness’ Ria Gupta 7. The ‘Cow Protection’ Discourse in India: The Making of a ‘Movement’ Ridhima Sharma Part III Generic Alterities of Representation 8. Aristocratic Households during the transition to Early Modernity: Representation of Domesticity in an Indo-Muslim 18^th century Biographical Compendium Shivangini Tandon 9. Delhi through Ghalib’s eyes: Politico-cultural transitions in the aftermath of the revolt of 1857 Mohit Abrol 10. Mapping Transformations in the Indian Public Sphere: An analysis of the Punch and Oudh Punch Cartoons Neha Khurana Part IV Transigent Cultures 11. Music Before the ‘Moderns’: A Study of the Changing Economy of Pleasure Vibhuti Sharma 12. Urban Theatre in North India during the Nineteenth Century: A Study Madhu Trivedi 13. Indian Trade Textiles: Transition in Patronage, Transformation in Style Gauri Parimoo Krishna. Index.