India and the subcontinent stimulated the curiosity of the British who came to India as traders. Each aspect of life in India - its people, customs, geography, climate, fauna and flora - was documented by British travelers, traders, administrators, soldiers to make sense to the European mind. As they 'discovered' India and occupied it, they also attempted to 'civilise' the natives. The present volumes focus on select aspects of the imperial archives: the accounts of "discovery" and exploration - fauna and flora, geography, climate - the people of the subcontinent, English domesticity and…mehr
India and the subcontinent stimulated the curiosity of the British who came to India as traders. Each aspect of life in India - its people, customs, geography, climate, fauna and flora - was documented by British travelers, traders, administrators, soldiers to make sense to the European mind. As they 'discovered' India and occupied it, they also attempted to 'civilise' the natives. The present volumes focus on select aspects of the imperial archives: the accounts of "discovery" and exploration - fauna and flora, geography, climate - the people of the subcontinent, English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent, the wars and skirmishes - including the "Mutiny" of 1857-58 - and the "civilisational mission". Volume 4 Rebellions and Wars is a collection of accounts of a very different British life in India: as prisoners, under siege and in conditions of war. The British ascendancy in India did not proceed smoothly, and colonisation was always a militarised zone of interest, action and process.
Pramod K. Nayar, FEA, FRHistS, teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India. His most recent books include Alzheimer's Disease Memoirs (2021), The Human Rights Graphic Novel (2021), E coprecarity: Vulnerable Lives in Literature and Culture (2019), Brand Postcolonial:'Third World' Texts and the Global (2018), Bhopal's Ecological Gothic: Disaster, Precarity and the Biopolitical Uncanny (2017), Human Rights and Literature: Writing Right (2016) and the edited collection Indian Travel Writing 1830-1947 (2016). His essays have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, South Asian Review, South Asia, Narrative, Celebrity Studies, Asiatic, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Prose Studies, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Biography, Image and Text and Postcolonial Text, among others. Nayar also holds the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies at the University of Hyderabad.
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Prefatory Note General Introduction: Archive and Empire Introduction Acknowledgements 1. J.Z. Holwell. A Genuine Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English Gentlemen and others who were suffocated in Fort-William at Calcutta in the Kingdom of Bengal in the night succeeding the 20th day of June 1756 in a letter to a friend. London: Printed for A. Millar in the Strand 1758. 2. James Bristow. A Narrative of the Sufferings of James Bristow belonging to the Bengal Artillery during Ten Years Captivity with Hyder Ali and Tippoo Saheb. London: John Murray 1793. 3. 'Koregaon Battle'. Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency 18 part 3. Bombay: Government Central Press 1885. 4. Julia Inglis. The Siege of Lucknow: A Diary. London: James R. Osgood McIlvine 1895. About the Editor
Prefatory Note General Introduction: Archive and Empire Introduction Acknowledgements 1. J.Z. Holwell. A Genuine Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English Gentlemen and others who were suffocated in Fort-William at Calcutta in the Kingdom of Bengal in the night succeeding the 20th day of June 1756 in a letter to a friend. London: Printed for A. Millar in the Strand 1758. 2. James Bristow. A Narrative of the Sufferings of James Bristow belonging to the Bengal Artillery during Ten Years Captivity with Hyder Ali and Tippoo Saheb. London: John Murray 1793. 3. 'Koregaon Battle'. Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency 18 part 3. Bombay: Government Central Press 1885. 4. Julia Inglis. The Siege of Lucknow: A Diary. London: James R. Osgood McIlvine 1895. About the Editor
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