Rhetoric and Ritual in Colonial India
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19th century indian history
20th century indian history
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Author_Douglas E. Haynes
bombay
bombay and sind
bombay presidency
bombay province
british colonialism
british empire
british india
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center of british power
class disparity
colonial india
colonialism
cultural studies
democracy
empire
english education
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gandhi
india
indian culture
indian elites
indian history
indian politics
indian studies
political influence
public culture
radical transformation
social change
social justice
surat
unequal power
wealth disparity
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- ISBN 9780520067257
- Weight: 771g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Oct 1991
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book explores the rhetoric and ritual of Indian elites undercolonialism, focusing on the city of Surat in the Bombay Presidency. It particularly examines how local elites appropriated and modified the liberal representative discourse of Britain and thus fashioned a "public' culture that excluded the city's underclasses. Departing from traditional explanations that have seen this process as resulting from English education or radical transformations in society, Haynes emphasizes the importance of the unequal power relationship between the British and those Indians who struggled for political influence and justice within the colonial framework. A major contribution of the book is Haynes' analysis of the emergence and ultimate failure of Ghandian cultural meanings in Indian politics after 1923. The book addresses issues of importance to historians and anthropologists of India, to political scientists seeking to understand the origins of democracy in the "Third World," and general readers interested in comprehending processes of cultural change in colonial contexts.
Douglas Haynes is Associate Professor of History at Dartmouth College.
