Colonialism as Civilizing Mission Cultural Ideology In British India 1st Edition by Harald Fischer Tiné, Michael Mann 1843310929 9781843310921

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ISBN 10: 1843310929 

ISBN 13: 9781843310921

Author: Harald Fischer-Tiné, Michael Mann

Ranging from studies on sport and national education and pulp fiction to infanticide, psychiatric therapy and religion, these essays on the various forms, expressions and consequences of the British ‘civilizing mission’ in South Asia shed light on a topic that even today continues to be an important factor in South Asian politics.

Table of contents:

PART I: TRIAL AND ERROR

1. Dealing with Oriental Despotism: British Jurisdiction in Bengal, 1772–93

‘2. A Race of Monsters’: South India and the British ‘Civilizing Mission’ in the Later Eighteenth Century

3. Between Non-Interference in Matters of Religion and the Civilizing Mission: The Prohibition of Suttee in 1829

PART II: ORDERING AND MODERNIZING
4. ‘The Bridge-Builders’: Some Notes on Railways, Pilgrimage and the British ‘Civilizing Mission’ in Colonial India
5. Taming the ‘Dangerous’ Rajput: Family, Marriage and Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century Colonial North India
6. What Is Your ‘Caste’? The Classification of Indian Society as Part of the British Civilizing Mission

PART III: BODY AND MIND
7. Sporting and the ‘Civilizing Mission’ in India
8. ‘More Important to Civilize Than Subdue’? Lunatic Asylums, Psychiatric Practice and Fantasies of ‘the Civilizing Mission’ in British India 1858–1900
9. The Sympathizing Heart and the Healing Hand: Smallpox Prevention and Medical Benevolences in Early Colonial South India
10. Perceptions of Sanitation and Medicine in Bombay, 1900–1914

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