Sinha / Walkowitz Specters of Mother India

The Global Restructuring of an Empire
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8797-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

Reihe: Radical Perspectives

A historical analysis of a book-inspired controversy that in its dimensions rivalled Hernnstein and Murray's The Bell Curve and Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and brought forth a new political collectivity in India's women.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sinha, Mrinalini

Walkowitz, Daniel J.

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Series ix

Acknowledgements xi

Note on Nomenclature and Transliteration xv

Introduction: The Anatomy of an Event 1

1. A Transitional Moment: The Dynamics of an Interwar Imperial Social Formation 23

2. Unpredictable Outcome: The Trajectory of a Transatlantic Intervention 66

3. Ironic Reversal: The Rhetoric of “Facts” in the Controversy over Mother India 109

4. Refashioning Mother India: The Sarda Act and Women’s Collective Agency 152

5. Ambiguous Aftermath: Political Consolidation on the Eve of the Second World War 197

Epilogue: History, Memory, Event 248

Notes 255

Bibliography 336

Index 361

Über Autor(innen)

Mrinalini Sinha is Associate Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Colonial Masculinity: The “Manly Englishman” and the “Effeminate Bengali” in the Late Nineteenth Century and the editor of Mother India: Selections from the Controversial 1927 Text.