Providence and the Raj : imperial mission and missionary imperialism

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Providence and the Raj : imperial mission and missionary imperialism

Gerald Studdert-Kennedy

Sage, 1998

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  • : India hb.

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Providence & the Raj

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Published by Tejeshwar Singh for Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd

Bibliography: p. [250]-263

Includes index

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The interconnection between British Christianity and British imperialism in India is a widely acknowledged historical fact. Despite this, there are few books which study this phenomenon. Informed by an essentially Gramscian analysis of colonial discourse, this pioneering book identifies fundamental `religious' and ideological commonalities that linked British policies in the domestic and imperial arenas and throws fresh light on the construction and collapse of the Raj.

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PART ONE: CHRISTIAN STATE AND CHRISTIAN EMPIRE Introduction Religion and Politics after the Great War Gandhi and the Christian Imperialists PART TWO: THE SENSE OF PROVIDENCE Masks of Conquest Political Elite and Christian College in the Madras Presidency Masks of Persuasion The Uses of Literature and the Politics of Providence Imperial Miniature Gandhi, Ruskin and the Christian Imperialists PART THREE: AGENTS OF PROVIDENCE The Intense Beliefs of Lionel George Curtis Political Science and Political Theology Lionel Curtis, Federalism and India The Christian Imperialism of the Die-Hard Defenders of the Raj Christianity, Statecraft and Chatham House Lionel Curtis and World Order PART FOUR: PROVIDENCE AND OTHER NARRATIVES Epilogue Community, Belief and Political Economy

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