England Re-Oriented - How Central and South Asian Travelers Imagined the West, 1750-1857

Examines how Central and South Asian travelers provincialized Britishness between 1750 and 1857 and how, by appropriating metropolitan media, they recalibrated Eurasian ways of behaving and knowing to counter a chauvinistic British imperialism with Indo-Persian masculine gentility.

List of contents

Introduction: Why Re-Orient?; 1. The British Raj's Mimic Men: Historicizing Genteel Masculinities across Empires 2. A Bluestocking Romance: Contesting British Military Masculinity in Joseph Emin's Letters and Memoir; 3. The Theater of Imperial Sovereignty: Entertaining Diplomatic Failure in Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin's London Travels; 4. Loving Strangers in Ireland: Indo-Celtic Masculinities in the Travels of Dean Mahomet and Mirza Abu Taleb Khan; 5. Female Bodies in Motion: Performing Sexual Revolution in Mirza Abu Taleb Khan's Theatrical Metropolis; 6. Dreaming with Fairyland: Virtual Magic in Yusuf Khan Kambalposh's Travels to Victorian London; 7. The Making of a Munshi Patriot: Lutfullah Khan, the Indian Mutiny, and Victorian Newsprint; Epilogue: Mirza Abul Hasan Khan, James Morier, and the Queering of Hajji Baba; Appendix A: Abu Taleb's "Treatise on Ethics"; Appendix B: Excerpts from Abu Taleb Khan's Diw¿n-i-T¿lib; Appendix C: Letter by moonshee Lutfullah

About the author

Humberto Garcia is Associate Professor and Vincent Hillyer Chair of Literature at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670–1840 (2012).

Product details

• Authors: Humberto Garcia
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781108797252
• ISBN: 978-1-108-79725-2
• No. of pages: 366
• Series: Critical Perspectives on Empire; Critical Perspectives on Empir
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Asian History, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, Later 18th century c 1750 to c 1799