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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Colonial India"”.
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Princes, diwans and merchants : education and reform in colonial India
… with a history of literacy and employment in pre-colonial state administrations adjusted to the new socio-political order brought about by the British Empire in India. My work shifts the attention to the Indian aristocracy and mercantile communities and examines why they promoted modern education. …
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A study of Communist Thought in Colonial India, 1919-1951
… in the twentieth century. In particular, anti-colonial thinkers engaged productively with Marx’s ideas as part of their struggle against Empire. Yet, little attention has been paid to the displacements and innovations in political thought as a result of this encounter between anti-colonialism …
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Telling Fragments: Politics of the Short Story in Late-Colonial India
… best suited to respond to the urgencies of anticolonial nationalism and the challenges of secular democracy, this thesis stakes a claim for the short story as a form that played a vital role in instilling a radical consciousness in the period leading up to the Independence and Partition of India …
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Race, Gender, and Beauty in Late Colonial India c.1900-1950.
… and modernity for emerging middle-class women in colonial India during a time of global transformation. Most contemporary scholarship to date focuses on the impacts of twenty-first-century skin-lightening markets and advertising without adequately historicising colourism. Taking an …
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Organising Tataland, the modern nation : a history of development in post/colonial India
Development in the post/colonial world is premised on the twin logics of modernization and nation-building, of which the latter has received little attention in post-development studies, and relatedly Management and Organisation Studies (MOS). This thesis interrogates – historically and critically …
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Violence, Sovereignty, and the Making of Criminal Law in Colonial India, 1857-1914
… between law, sovereignty and violence in colonial India in the period 1857-1914. From murder, to corporal punishment, to jubilee amnesty, this thesis highlights two gaps within the scholarship of nineteenth-century Indian legal and political history. Firstly, that histories of colonial law …
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Race, politics, and armies: The dynamics of military modernization in twentieth-century colonial India
… the first half of the twentieth century the colonial Indian army underwent a dramatic transition. What had hitherto been a predominantly glorified colonial police force was transformed into a relatively modern army, complete with its own institutionalized officer corps. This impressive …
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The constitution of the colonial labor subject: Labor law in colonial India, 1881 to 1936
The Colonial project in India, which was based on the appropriation of an economic surplus, was given legitimacy with a discourse that spoke of the social, moral, and political redemption of the 'natives'. This discourse was grounded in an Orientalism--i.e., the Oriental as the subject and object …
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Surviving Modernity: Ashraf 'Ali Thanvi (1863-1943) and the Making of Muslim Orthodoxy in Colonial India
… and staging of Muslim orthodoxy in British India, concentrating on how orthodox theologians survived colonial modernity by deploying sociological, discursive, psychic, and hermeneutical strategies. This dissertation is organized around Ashraf `Ali Thanvi (1863-1943), a leading Muslim …
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Questions of Faith: Christianity, Conversion and the Ideological Origins of Political Theology in Colonial India, 1813-1907
… political valences of religious conversion in colonial India and explains how religious conversion, especially to Protestant Christianity, emerged as the most spectacular locus of public debate, social reform and anti-colonial resistance in colonial India in the nineteenth and early twentieth …
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Diving: using fiction narrative and intermedial assemblage to understand family histories in colonial India between 1933-1947
… the power relations generated within a colonial family at a particular moment in the British colonial past in India between 1933-47. My research practice, Diving, presents a series of multimedia assemblages, which recount a fictional story viewed from multiple perspectives and are played …
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FROM MARKAZ TO MULK: LAHORE, MAGAZINES, AND THE PLACE OF URDU IN LATE COLONIAL INDIA, 1900-1950
This dissertation examines how geographies such as the city, region, country, and world were elaborated in and contributed to the development of 20th century Urdu culture. Focusing on Lahore, where Urdu was not the native language, I show how the city came to be recognized as an important space of …
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The History, Ideology, and Organisation of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in the post-colonial India, 1948–1991
This thesis explores the postcolonial history of the Sangh that marked its ascendancy from a marginal paramilitary organisation in the late 1940s to the apex organisation of the Hindu Nationalist movement with a dense network of branches, cadres, and subsidiaries by the 1990s. This thesis gives …
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Bringing Down The House: Gambling, Speculation And The Making Of The Small Investor In Colonial India, 1867-1943
… AND THE MAKING OF THE SMALL INVESTOR IN COLONIAL INDIA, 1867-1943Baishakh Chakrabarti Projit Mukharji Daud Ali My dissertation uses the history of gambling and speculation to narrate the growth of commodity exchanges and markets that emerged in colonial India during the early twentieth …
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Industrial/statecraft : infrastructure and the making of industrial capitalism in India, ca. 1940
… private capital begins to accumulate in post-colonial India. The project looks at the discourse of industrial development and planning in late and post-colonial India, investigating the manner in which infrastructure appears as a trope not only for state's validation but also for aggregation …
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Three essays on regional economic development
… directly on what caused economic growth in Pre-Colonial India. I propose that the introduction of a New World crop, a form of an agricultural productivity shock, caused economic growth in India. I find that the introduction of maize did contribute to economic growth in Pre-Colonial India.
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Reading against the grain: translation of India in eighteenth and nineteenth Century French travel accounts
The majority of research on colonial India, including research in Translation Studies, tends to approach it as an Anglophone space. The history of Indo-French encounter in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has so far been left out of mainstream discourses. This thesis addresses that neglect …
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One-Party-Dominance in Changing Societies : The African National Congress and Indian National Congress in Comparative Perspective : A Study in Party Systems and Agency in Post-Colonial India and Post-Apartheid South Africa
… scholarly assessments. Academic accounts of post-colonial India are interspersed with references to a deviant case of, or an empirical anomaly to, party system and democratic theory, and the conventional vocabulary used to describe post-apartheid South African political development frequently …
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ASHRAF 'ALI THANAWI'S BIHISHTI ZEWAR: MUSLIM FEMALE PIETY UNDER THE DEOBANDI MOVEMENT IN BRITISH INDIA
… towards women of the ashraf class in late colonial India. The study explores the both religious and secular literature in Urdu produced during the dusk of imperialism in India. It concludes that female piety was similarly imagined by both the 'ulama and the secular writers during that era.
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