Autorentext
JON E WILSON is Lecturer in History at King's College London. He has degrees in both history and anthropology. His research focuses on the history of modern South Asia, especially Bengal, its relationship to global social and intellectual forces and their contemporary political and philosophical implications.
Klappentext
Zusammenfassung
Offering a major new interpretation of the transformation of political thought and practice in colonial India, The Domination of Strangers traces the origins of modern ideas about the state and Indian civil society to the practical interaction between the British and their south Asian subjects.
Inhalt
Maps and Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Comparing Eighteenth-Century Political Societies Crisis, Anxiety and the Making of a New Order Colonial Indecision and the Origins of the Hindu Joint Family Governing the Power of Proprietors The State as Machine and the Ambivalent Origins of Colonial Reform Indian Liberalism and Colonial Utilitarianism Reflections Notes Bibliography
Titel
The Domination of Strangers
Untertitel
Modern Governance in Eastern India, 1780-1835
Autor
EAN
9780230584396
ISBN
978-0-230-58439-6
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
31.10.2008
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
1.3 MB
Anzahl Seiten
242
Jahr
2008
Untertitel
Englisch
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