The other empire : metropolis, India and progress in the colonial imagination
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The other empire : metropolis, India and progress in the colonial imagination
（Studies in imperialism / general editor, John M. MacKenzie）
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2009, c2003
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"First published in hardback 2003 by Manchester University Press. This paperback edition first published 2009"--T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 a unified field of knowledge that brought together travel and evangelical accounts to exert a formative influence on the creation of London and India for the domestic reading public. Their distinct narratives, rhetoric and chronologies forged homologies between representations of the metropolitan poor and colonial subjects - those constituencies that were seen as the most threatening to imperial progress. Thus the poor and particular sections of the Indian population were inscribed within discourses of western civilization as regressive and inferior peoples. Over time these discourses increasingly promoted notions of overt and rigid racial hierarchies, of which a legacy still remains.
Drawing upon cultural and intellectual history this comparative study seeks to rethink the location of the poor and India within the nineteenth-century imagination. -- .
Table of Contents
Introduction: Metropolis and India
1. The antinomies of progress
2. Desarts of Africa or Arabia
3. The intimate connexion
4. A complete cyclopaedia
5. So immense an empire
6. In darkest England
7. The great museum of races
Conclusion
Index -- .
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