South Asians and the shaping of Britain, 1870-1950

A sourcebook
Herausgeber: Ranasinha, Ruvani

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first anthology of primary material interdisciplinary study of the history of the South Asian presence in Britain over the period 1870-1950, it selects a wide range of official and non-official archival sources. and identifies four key areas of South Asian impact - minority rights, war, culture and reception, and representation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 407g
• ISBN-13: 9780719085147
• ISBN-10: 0719085144
• Artikelnr.: 36623509

Autorenporträt

Ruvani Ranasinha is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, King's College London Rehana Ahmed is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at Teesside University Sumita Mukherjee is an historian of South Asia and the British Empire Florian Stadtler is a Research Fellow at the Open University

Inhaltsangabe

Preface (Elleke Boehmer and Susheila Nasta) Chronology of events
Introduction (Ruvani Ranasinha) 1. Equality of citizenship (Rehana Ahmed)
2. Britain's forgotten volunteers: South Asian contributions to the Two
World Wars (Florian Stadtler) 3. Textual culture and reception (Ruvani
Ranasinha) 4. Representations and display (Sumita Mukherjee) Afterword
(Rozina Visram) Select bibliography Index