India and the British Empire

by Peers, Douglas M.; Gooptu, Nandini

• ISBN13: 9780198794615
• ISBN10: 0198794614
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-12-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Douglas Peers is currently Professor of History and Dean of Arts at the University of Waterloo, having previously held positions at York University, the University of Calgary, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He is the author of Between Mars and Mammon: Colonial Armies and the Garrison State in Early-Nineteenth Century India (1995), India Under Colonial Rule, 1700-1885 (2006), and has published more than twenty articles and chapters on the intellectual, political, medical, and cultural dimensions of nineteenth-century India in such journals as the Social History of Medicine, Modern Asian Studies, The Historical Journal, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, International History Review, Radical History Review and Journal of World History.

Nandini Gooptu is a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. She teaches history and politics at the Department of International Development, the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, and the Department of Politics, University of Oxford. Educated in Calcutta and at Cambridge, and trained as a social historian, she is the author of The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early-Twentieth Century India (2001). While Dr Gooptu's past research has been on colonial India, her current research is concerned with social and political transformation in contemporary India. She has published articles on a variety of subjects, including caste, religion and spiritualism in politics; urban development and politics; poverty, labour, and work.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Douglas M. Peers and Nandini Gooptu
2. State, Power, and Colonialism, Douglas M. Peers
3. The Indian Economy and the British Empire, David Washbrook
4. Knowledge Formation in Colonial India, Norbert Peabody
5. Colonialism and Social Identities in Flux: Class, Caste, and Religious Community, Rosalind O'Hanlon
6. Nationalisms in India, Sumit Sarkar
7. Law, Authority, and Colonial Rule, Sandra den Otter
8. Networks of Knowledge: Science and Medicine in Early Colonial India, c.1750-1820, Mark Harrison
9. Environment and Ecology under British Rule, Mahesh Rangarajan
10. Material and Visual Culture of British India, Christopher Pinney
11. Literary Modernity in South Asia, Javed Majeed
12. Gendering of Public and Private Selves in Colonial Times, Tanika Sarkar
13. The Desi Diaspora: Politics, Protest, and Nationalism, Vijay Prashad
14. The Political Legacy of Colonialism in South Asia, Nandini Gooptu