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Civilizing missions in colonial and postcolonial South Asia : from improvement to development
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This collection provides a historical exploration of the tensions and complexities of civilizing missions undertaken by British or Indian states or organizations in nineteenth- and twentieth-centur...
This collection provides a historical exploration of the tensions and complexities of civilizing missions undertaken by British or Indian states or organizations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asia.
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- Creator
- edited by Carey A. Watt and Michael Mann
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- London : Anthem Press, 2011
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- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (vi, 337 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- ISBNs
- 6613377147, 9780857288301, 9781283377140, 1283377144, 9786613377142, 085728830X, 1843318644, 9781843318644
- OCLC
- ocn772399359, ocn779165994
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Introduction: the relevance and complexity of civilizing missions c. 1800-2010 / Carey A. Watt -- Conjecturing rudeness: James Mill's utilitarian philosophy of history and the British civilizing mission / Adam Knowles -- Art, artefacts and architecture: Lord Curzon, the Delhi Arts Exhibition of 1902-03 and the improvement of India's aesthetics / Michael Mann -- Incorportaion and differentiation: popular education and the imperial civilizing mission in early nineteenth century India / Jana Tschurenev -- Reclaiming savages in 'darkest England' and 'darkest India': the Salvation Army as transnational agent of the civilizing mission / Harald Fischer-Tiné -- Mediating modernity: colonial state, Indian nationalism and the renegotiation of the 'civilizing mission' in the Indian child marriage debate of 1927-1932 / Andrea Major -- 'Civilizing sisters': writings on how to save women, men, society and the nation in late colonial India / Shobna Nijhawan -- From 'social reform' to 'social service': Indian civic activism and the civilizing mission in colonial Bombay c. 1900-20 / Proshant Kidambi -- Female infanticide and the civilizing mission in postcolonial India: a case study from Tamil Nadu c. 1980-2006 / Shahid Perwez -- Philanthropy and civilizing missions in India c. 1820-1960: states, NGOs and development / Afterward: improvement, progress and development / Michael Mann