Author: Benjamin N. Lawrance
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299219542
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks
Author: Benjamin N. Lawrance
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299219542
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299219542
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Colonial Clerks
Author: Dalia Chakrabarti
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
On the clerks in East India Company tenure; a study.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
On the clerks in East India Company tenure; a study.
The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Sumit Chakrabarti
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000193683
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This book examines the location and representation of the colonial clerk or the kerani within the cultural and social space of nineteenth century colonial India. It provides a comparative history of the clerk in Calcutta vis-à-vis the clerk in contemporary London in order to understand the manifestations of modernity in these two disparate but intimately related spaces. The volume traces the socio-historical life of the clerk in the newly emerged city-space of Calcutta and reveals how the Bengali kerani became a complex and distinct figure of bureaucratic and colonial modernity. It analyses the techniques of surveillance and ethical training given to the native clerks and offers insights into the role of education in the production and dissemination of knowledge and hegemony in the colonial setting. The author, through a reading of clerk manuals, handbooks and literary representations, highlights the class and cultural identity of the English educated colonial clerk in the new city-space. He also focuses on the ambivalence and unreliability of the clerk or colonial babu who became complicit and gave legitimacy to the empire while personifying a complex modernity within the networks of the colonial administration. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of colonial and imperial history, literature, cultural studies, city studies, British studies, area studies, commonwealth studies and South Asian studies, particularly those interested in colonial Bengal.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000193683
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This book examines the location and representation of the colonial clerk or the kerani within the cultural and social space of nineteenth century colonial India. It provides a comparative history of the clerk in Calcutta vis-à-vis the clerk in contemporary London in order to understand the manifestations of modernity in these two disparate but intimately related spaces. The volume traces the socio-historical life of the clerk in the newly emerged city-space of Calcutta and reveals how the Bengali kerani became a complex and distinct figure of bureaucratic and colonial modernity. It analyses the techniques of surveillance and ethical training given to the native clerks and offers insights into the role of education in the production and dissemination of knowledge and hegemony in the colonial setting. The author, through a reading of clerk manuals, handbooks and literary representations, highlights the class and cultural identity of the English educated colonial clerk in the new city-space. He also focuses on the ambivalence and unreliability of the clerk or colonial babu who became complicit and gave legitimacy to the empire while personifying a complex modernity within the networks of the colonial administration. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of colonial and imperial history, literature, cultural studies, city studies, British studies, area studies, commonwealth studies and South Asian studies, particularly those interested in colonial Bengal.
The Colonial Office List for ...
Author: Great Britain. Colonial Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 738
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ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 738
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Navigating Colonial Orders
Author: Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782385401
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Norwegians in colonial Africa and Oceania had varying aspirations and adapted in different ways to changing social, political and geographical circumstances in foreign, colonial settings. They included Norwegian shipowners, captains, and diplomats; traders and whalers along the African coast and in Antarctica; large-scale plantation owners in Mozambique and Hawai’i; big business men in South Africa; jacks of all trades in the Solomon Islands; timber merchants on Zanzibar’ coffee farmers in Kenya; and King Leopold’s footmen in Congo. This collection reveals narratives of the colonial era that are often ignored or obscured by the national histories of former colonial powers. It charts the entrepreneurial routes chosen by various Norwegians and the places they ventured, while demonstrating the importance of recognizing the complicity of such “non-colonial colonials” for understanding the complexity of colonial history.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782385401
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Norwegians in colonial Africa and Oceania had varying aspirations and adapted in different ways to changing social, political and geographical circumstances in foreign, colonial settings. They included Norwegian shipowners, captains, and diplomats; traders and whalers along the African coast and in Antarctica; large-scale plantation owners in Mozambique and Hawai’i; big business men in South Africa; jacks of all trades in the Solomon Islands; timber merchants on Zanzibar’ coffee farmers in Kenya; and King Leopold’s footmen in Congo. This collection reveals narratives of the colonial era that are often ignored or obscured by the national histories of former colonial powers. It charts the entrepreneurial routes chosen by various Norwegians and the places they ventured, while demonstrating the importance of recognizing the complicity of such “non-colonial colonials” for understanding the complexity of colonial history.
The Colonial Office List
Author: Great Britain. Colonial Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
The Colonial Office List for 1862
Author: William C. Sargeaunt
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375034253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375034253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.
Colonial Office List ...
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
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The Dominions Office and Colonial Office List for ...
Author: Great Britain. Office of Commonwealth Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
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Romanticism and Colonial Disease
Author: Alan Bewell
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801877903
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Colonial experience was profoundly structured by disease, as expansion brought people into contact with new and deadly maladies. Pathogens were exchanged on a scale far greater than ever before. Native populations were decimated by wave after wave of Old World diseases. In turn, colonists suffered disease and mortality rates much higher than in their home countries. Not only disease, but the idea of disease, and the response to it, deeply affected both colonizers and those colonized. In Romanticism and Colonial Disease, Alan Bewell focuses on the British response to colonial disease as medical and literary writers, in a period roughly from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century, grappled to understand this new world of disease. Bewell finds this literature characterized by increasing anxiety about the global dimensions of disease and the epidemiological cost of empire. Colonialism infiltrated the heart of Romantic literature, affecting not only the Romantics' framing of disease but also their understanding of England's position in the colonial world. The first major study of the massive impact of colonial disease on British culture during the Romantic period, Romanticism and Colonial Disease charts the emergence of the idea of the colonial world as a pathogenic space in need of a cure, and examines the role of disease in the making and unmaking of national identities.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801877903
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Colonial experience was profoundly structured by disease, as expansion brought people into contact with new and deadly maladies. Pathogens were exchanged on a scale far greater than ever before. Native populations were decimated by wave after wave of Old World diseases. In turn, colonists suffered disease and mortality rates much higher than in their home countries. Not only disease, but the idea of disease, and the response to it, deeply affected both colonizers and those colonized. In Romanticism and Colonial Disease, Alan Bewell focuses on the British response to colonial disease as medical and literary writers, in a period roughly from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century, grappled to understand this new world of disease. Bewell finds this literature characterized by increasing anxiety about the global dimensions of disease and the epidemiological cost of empire. Colonialism infiltrated the heart of Romantic literature, affecting not only the Romantics' framing of disease but also their understanding of England's position in the colonial world. The first major study of the massive impact of colonial disease on British culture during the Romantic period, Romanticism and Colonial Disease charts the emergence of the idea of the colonial world as a pathogenic space in need of a cure, and examines the role of disease in the making and unmaking of national identities.