Becoming Imperial Citizens - Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire

Informationen zum Autor Sukanya Banerjee is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Klappentext Examines colonial citizenship in late 19th and early 20th century India through the study of four public figures who helped formulate and challenge notions of national belonging in the midst of empire. Zusammenfassung By examining how Indians formulated notions of citizenship across the British empire from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth! Sujatha Banerjee theorizes modes of citizenship decoupled from the rights-conferring nation-state. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Imperial Citizenship 1 1. Of the Indian Economy and the English Polls 36 2. South Africa, Indentured Labor, and the Question of Credit 75 3. The Professional Citizen in/and the Zenana 116 4. Bureaucratic Modernity, the Indian Civil Service, and Grammars of Nationalism 150 Afterword 191 Notes 197 Bibliography 235 Index 265

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sukanya Banerjee
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 17.06.2010
• EAN: 9780822345909
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4590-9
• Pagine: 288
• Serie: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave: New Directions in W; Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Età moderna fino al 1918