Banerjee / Grewal / Kaplan Becoming Imperial Citizens

Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9198-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 284 Seiten

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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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Banerjee, Sukanya

Grewal, Inderpal

Kaplan, Caren

Wiegman, Robyn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

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

Über Autor(innen)

Sukanya Banerjee is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.