Title: Civilizing missions in colonial and postcolonial South Asia
Description: "This collection demonstrates how the civilizing mission can serve as an analytical rubric with relevance to many themes in the colonial and postcolonial eras: economic development, state building, pacification, nationalism, cultural improvement, gender and generational relations, caste and untouchability, religion and missionaries, class relations, urbanization, NGOs and civil society."--Back cover.
Subjects: Civilization, British influences, Colonial influence, Colonies, Social policy, History, Missions, asia, South asia, history, Missions
Places: Great Britain, India, Asia
Time periods: British occupation, 1765-1947