Title: Colonialism as civilizing mission : cultural ideology in British India /
Authors: Fischer-Tiné, Harald; Mann, Michael, 1959-
Publisher: Anthem Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Civilization; Colonialism; History, 20th Century; History, 19th Century; History, 18th Century; Civilization history; Colonialism history; Civilization history Great Britain.; History, 18th Century Great Britain.; History, 19th Century Great Britain.; History, 20th Century Great Britain.; Colonialism Great Britain History.; Civilization Great Britain History.; India; United Kingdom; India History; Great Britain Colonies Asia Social policy History.; Great Britain Colonies Asia Administration History.; India Civilization British influences.; Great Britain Colonies Asia Social policy.; Great Britain Colonies Asia Administration.; India; United Kingdom.
Contents: 'Torchbearers upon the path of progress' : Britain's ideology of a 'moral and material progress' in India : an introductory wssay / Michael Mann -- Dealing with oriental despotism : British jurisdiction in Bengal, 1772-93 / Michael Mann -- 'A race of monsters' : South India and the British 'civilizing mission' in the later eighteenth century / Margret Frenz -- Between non-interference in matters of religion and the civilizing mission : the prohibition of suttee in 1829 / Jana Tschurenev -- 'The bridge-builders' : some notes on railways, pilgrimage and the British 'civilizing mission' in colonial India / Ravi Ahuja -- Taming the 'dangerous' Rajput : family, marriage and female infanticide in nineteenth-century colonial north India / Malavika Kasturi -- What is your 'caste'? The classification of Indian society as part of the British civilizing mission / Melita Waligora -- Sporting and the 'civilizing mission' in India / Paul Dimeo -- 'More important to civilize than subdue'? Lunatic asylums, psychiatric practice and fantasies of 'the civilizing mission' in British India 1858-1900 / Jim Mills -- The sympathizing heart and the healing hand : smallpox prevention and medical benevolence in early colonial south India / Neils Brimnes -- Perceptions of sanitation and medicine in Bombay, 1900-1914 / Mridula Ramanna -- National education, pulp fiction and the contradictions of colonialism : perceptions of an educational experiment in early-twentieth-century India / Harald Fischer-Tiné -- In search of the indigenous : J.C. Kumarappa and the philosophy of 'Gandhian economics' / Benjamin Zachariah -- The civilizational obsessions of Ghulam Jilani Barq / Marcus Daeschel.