ABSTRACT
This book presents an alternate history of colonial India in the 18th and the 19th centuries. It traces the transitions and transformations during this period through art, literature, music, theatre, satire, textiles, regime changes, personal histories and migration. The essays in the volume examine historical events and movements which questioned the traditional parameters of identity and forged a new direction for the people and the nation. Viewing the age through diverse disciplinary angles, the book also reflects on the various reimaginings of India at the time.
This volume will be of interest to academics and researchers of modern Indian history, cultural studies and literature. It will also appeal to scholars interested in the anthropological, sociological and psychological contexts of imperialism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|77 pages
Space, place and displacement
chapter 3|21 pages
The correct view
part II|60 pages
Regional formations and movements
chapter 5|19 pages
struggle over a Mughal office
part III|63 pages
Generic alterities of representation
chapter 8|18 pages
Aristocratic households during the transition to early modernity
chapter 9|19 pages
Delhi through Ghalib’s eyes
chapter 10|24 pages
Mapping transformations in the Indian public sphere
part IV|59 pages
Transigent cultures