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1 online resource (295 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
A stereotypical view of the nineteenth-century British in India, which might be characterised as one of deliberate isolation and segregation from their surroundings, has recently been complemented by one evoking a high degree of integration and closer co-existence in the eighteenth century. Focusing on a period which straddles this apparent shift, this book explores a variety of ways in which British residents in India represented their lives through visual material, and reveals a more nuanced position. Consideration of these images, which have often been overlooked in the scholarly literature, opens up issues about questions of identity facing the British population in India at this time and facing colonial societies more generally, and about the role of visual culture in negotiating them. It also underlines the fragile and contested nature of identity: the colonists self-fashioning encompassed not only expressions of difference from their Indian setting, but also what distinguished them from their compatriots back in Britain, as well as engaging with metropolitan attitudes towards, and prejudices about, them. -- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-285) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
British -- India -- Social life and customs.
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British. |
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India. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Colonial art. |
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Colonialism & imperialism. |
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Social & cultural history. |
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HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia. |
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British -- Social life and customs. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: De Silva, Prasannajit. Colonial self-fashioning in British India, c. 1785-1845. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK ; Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018 9781527508989 (OCoLC)1031453442 |
| ISBN |
9781527514287 (electronic book) |
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1527514285 (electronic book) |
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9781527508989 |
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1527508986 |
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