Memory, Identity And The Colonial Encounter In India: Essays In Honour Of Peter Robb - 9781138237056

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 Memory and identity -- I Colonial memory -- 1 Memory, place and British memorials in early Calcutta: transcript of a lecture by Peter Robb -- II Colonial identities -- 2 On the political history of Britishness in India: Lord Cornwallis and the early demise of Creole India -- 3 Religion and race: Eurasians in colonial India -- III Textual representations of memory and identity -- 4 Texts of liminality: reading identity in Dalit autobiographies from Bengal -- 5 Paradoxes of victimhood: Dalit women's bodies as polluted and suffering in colonial North India -- IV Sites of memory and identity formation -- 6 Sites of memory and structures of power in North India: Anandamath and Hanumangarhi -- 7 Dispossessing memory: Adivasi oral histories from the margins of Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve, Central India -- Part 2 Colonial encounters -- I Encounters with regional governance -- 8 Heroinism and its weapons: women power brokers in early modern Bhopal -- 9 Changing horses: the administration of Sikkim, 1888-1918 -- II Encounters with surveillance and resistance -- 10 Lost in transit? Railway crimes and the regime of control in colonial India -- 11 From London to Calcutta: the 'Bolshevik' outsider and imperial surveillance, 1917-1921 -- III Encounters and 'improvement' -- 12 Competition or collaboration? Importers of salt, the East India Company, and the salt market in Eastern India, c. 1780-1836 -- 13 Challenging the 3Rs: kindergarten experiments in colonial Madras -- 14 Scientific knowledge and practices of green manuring in Bengal Presidency, 1905-1925 -- Appendix: Major publications and supervised theses by Peter Robb -- Index

• | Author: Ezra Rashkow, Sanjukta Ghosh, Upal Chakrabarti
• | Publisher: Routledge India
• | Publication Date: Aug 22, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 364 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138237051
• | ISBN-13: 9781138237056