Mapping India: Transitions and Transformations, 18th–19th Century

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This book presents an alternate history of colonial India in the 18th and the 19th centuries. It traces the transitions and transformations during this period through art, literature, music, theatre, satire, textiles, regime changes, personal histories and migration. The essays in the volume examine historical events and movements which questioned the traditional parameters of identity and forged a new direction for the people and the nation. Viewing the age through diverse disciplinary angles, the book also reflects on the various reimaginings of India at the time. This volume will be of interest to academics and researchers of modern Indian history, cultural studies and literature. It will also appeal to scholars interested in the anthropological, sociological and psychological contexts of imperialism. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Introduction Part I Space, place and displacement 1 Imperial guidebooks for charting India 2 Scottish resonances in James Baillie Fraser’s travel accounts 3 The correct view: ethnographic representation of Darjeeling hill tribes, from drawings to photography 4 Patterns of migration and formation of the Indian diaspora in colonial India Part II Regional formations and movements 5 Struggle over a Mughal office: English response to Maratha expansion along coastal Western India in 1733 6 Pre-modern cosmopolitanism: a challenge to Ladakh’s ‘Tibetanness’ 7 The ‘Cow Protection’ discourse in India: the making of a ‘movement’ Part III Generic alterities of representation 8 Aristocratic households during the transition to early modernity: representation of domesticity in an Indo-Muslim 18th-century biographical compendium 9 Delhi through Ghalib’s eyes: politico-cultural transitions in the aftermath of the revolt of 1857 10 Mapping transformations in the Indian public sphere: an analysis of the Punch and Oudh Punch cartoons Part IV Transigent cultures 11 Music before the ‘Moderns’: a study of the changing economy of pleasure 12 Urban theatre in North India during the 19th century: a study 13 Indian trade textiles: transition in patronage, transformation in style Index