Essays on Anglo-Indian Literature
Essays on Anglo-Indian Literature

Author: Sujit Bose

Publisher: Northern Book Centre

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9788172111748

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Contains fine examples of Anglo-Indian literature. The original books were written at various periods in the history of Anglo-Indian literature. The first two chapters are attempts to provide an overview of the beginning and the growth in Anglo-Indian prose and poetry. When Bishop Heber wrote his Journals, he described in detail what he saw and understood in India. The chapter on his Journals contains an analysis of Heber's presentation of the socio-economic-cultural condition of India in the early nineteenth century. The essay on Twenty-One Days in India analyses as to how an Englishman smiled at his own countrymen in colonial India. The behavioural peculiarities of the characters are brought into focus, examined and then mildly satirised. This book is reminiscent of the vignettes that were published during the Victorian period in England. The tetralogy The Near and the Far of L.H. Myers is, among others, exemplary of the author's understanding of the orient. The chapter on this novel is an analysis of the orientalism of the author.

The Cult of Imperial Honor in British India
The Cult of Imperial Honor in British India

Author: S. Patterson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-03-30

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0230620175

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What was imperial honor and how did it sustain the British Raj? If "No man may harm me with impunity" was an ancient theme of the European aristocracy, British imperialists of almost all classes in India possessed a similar vision of themselves as overlords belonging to an honorable race, so that ideals of honor condoned and sanctified their rituals, connecting them with status, power, and authority. Honor, most broadly, legitimated imperial rule, since imperialists ostensibly kept India safe from outside threats. Yet at the individual level, honor kept the "white herd" together, providing the protocols and etiquette for the imperialist, who had to conform to the strict notions of proper and improper behavior in a society that was always obsessed with maintaining its dominance over India and Indians.Examining imperial society through the prism of honor therefore opens up a new methodology for the study of British India.

Twenty-One Days in India = Or, the Tour of Sir Ali Baba, K. C. B. and the Teapot Series
Twenty-One Days in India = Or, the Tour of Sir Ali Baba, K. C. B. and the Teapot Series

Author: George Robert Aberigh-MacKay

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9781290866880

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