Negotiating India in the Nineteenth-Century Media

by Edited by David Finkelstein and Douglas M. Peers

• ISBN13: 9780312234652
• ISBN10: 0312234651
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2000-11-18
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection of twelve original essays is the first concerted attempt to examine representations of India in the 19th-century media. It offers analyses of a representative sampling of contemporary media publications produced in India as well as in Britain between 1840 and 1900. The result contributes to ongoing analyses of the complex cultural relations between metropole and periphery in imperial systems.

Author Biography

David Finkelstein is Senior Lecturer and Co-director of the Scottish Center for the Book at Napier University, Edinburgh.

Douglas M. Peers is Associate Professor of History at the University of Calgary.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Notes on the Contributors	viii
Acknowledgements	xi
`A Great System of Circulation': Introducing India into the Nineteenth-Century Media	1	(22)
David Finkelstein
Douglas M. Peers
Institutionalizing Imperial Reform: The Indian Magazine and Late-Victorian Colonial Politics	23	(28)
Antoinette Burton
Issues of Race, Gender and Nation in Englishwomen's Domestic Magazine and Queen, 1850-1900	51	(12)
Nupur Chaudhuri
`Half-Caste Bob' or Race and Caste in the Late-Victorian Boys' Story Paper	63	(21)
Kelly Boyd
`The Story of Our Lives': The Moonstone and the Indian Mutiny in All the Year Round	84	(26)
Hyungji Park
`Double-dyed Traitors and Infernal Villains': Illustrated London News, Household Words, Charles Dickens and the Indian Rebellion	110	(25)
Laura Peters
Narratives of Progress and Idioms of Community: Two Urdu Periodicals of the 1870s	135	(29)
Javed Majeed
`Strange Medley[s]': Ambiguities of Role, Purpose and Representation in Kipling's From Sea to Sea	164	(21)
John McBratney
Representing the Technology of the Raj in Britain's Victorian Periodical Press	185	(25)
A. Martin Wainwright
The Army in India and the Military Periodical Press, 1830-98	210	(23)
T.R. Moreman
Was there an Oriental Renaissance in Medicine? The Evidence of the Nineteenth-Century Medical Press	233	(21)
Mark Harrison
Purple Prose and the Yellow Press: Imagined Spaces and the Military Expedition to Tirah, 1897	254	(23)
Glenn R. Wilkinson
Index	277