{"product_id":"colonial-voices-isbn-9781444338560","title":"Colonial Voices","description":"This accessible cultural history explores 400 years of British imperial adventure in India, developing a coherent narrative through a wide range of colonial documents, from exhibition catalogues to memoirs and travelogues. It shows how these texts helped legitimize the moral ambiguities of colonial rule even as they helped the English fashion themselves.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn engaging examination of European colonizers’ representations of native populations\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAnalyzes colonial discourse through an impressive range of primary sources, including memoirs, letters, exhibition catalogues, administrative reports, and travelogues\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSurveys 400 years of India’s history, from the 16th century to the end of the British Empire\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDemonstrates how colonial discourses naturalized the racial and cultural differences between the English and the Indians, and controlled anxieties over these differences\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Acknowledgments vii  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Introducing Colonial Discourse 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Travel, Exploration, and ‘‘Discovery’’: From Imagination to Inquiry 12\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eImagining Multiple Worlds: The Fantasy of ‘‘Discovery’’\u003c\/i\u003e 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Narrative Organization of Discovery\u003c\/i\u003e 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘‘Inquiry’’ and the Documentation of the Others\u003c\/i\u003e 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConclusion: ‘‘Discovery’’ and Wonder, ‘‘Contracted and Epitomized’’\u003c\/i\u003e 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 The Discourse of Difference: Constructing the Colonial Exotic 55\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Colony and Imperial Wealth\u003c\/i\u003e 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Exotic in English Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Colonial Exotic: Aesthetics, Science, and Difference\u003c\/i\u003e 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sentimental Exotic\u003c\/i\u003e 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Scientific Exotic\u003c\/i\u003e 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConclusion: From the Indian to the Colonial Exotic\u003c\/i\u003e 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Empire Management: From Domestication to Spectacle 104\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Domestication of Colonial Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdministering Colonial Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘‘Raising the General Credit of the Empire’’: The Spectacle of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConclusion: Imperial Improvisation and the Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Civilizing the Empire: The Ideology of Moral and Material Progress 161\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEngland’s Age of Improvement\u003c\/i\u003e 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscipline and Improve\u003c\/i\u003e 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eImperial Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e 174\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Salvific Colonial\u003c\/i\u003e 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRescue, Reform, and Race\u003c\/i\u003e 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConclusion: From Improvement to Self-Legitimization\u003c\/i\u003e 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Aesthetic Understanding: From Colonial English to Imperial Cosmopolitans 201\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Self-Fashioning of the Scholar-Colonial\u003c\/i\u003e 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAntiquarian Aesthetics and Colonial Authority\u003c\/i\u003e 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘‘Consumption, Ingestion, and Decoration’’: Colonial Commodities\u003c\/i\u003e 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe ‘‘Empire City’’: Pageantry and Empire\u003c\/i\u003e 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConclusion: From Colonial English to Imperial Cosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 260\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePramod K. Nayar\u003c\/b\u003e is a member of the English Faculty at the University of Hyderabad, India. He has been Smuts Visiting Fellow in Commonwealth Studies at the University of Cambridge, the Charles Wallace India Trust–British Council Fellow at the University of Kent at Canterbury and Fulbright Senior Fellow at Cornell University. His many publications include \u003ci\u003eStates of Sentiment: Exploring the Cultures of Emotion\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), \u003ci\u003eAn Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), \u003ci\u003ePostcolonialism: A Guide for the Perplexed\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), \u003ci\u003eEnglish Writing and India, 1600–1920: Colonizing Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), and \u003ci\u003eWriting Wrongs: The Cultural Construction of Human Rights in India\u003c\/i\u003e (2012). Forthcoming is a book on new media.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDrawing on a vast array of textual sources, this analysis of the discourse of colonialism tracks the many narratives and narrative strategies of imperial domination. Focusing on British involvement in India, the material collated for this revealing study includes travelogues, administrative reports, memoirs, letters, exhibition catalogues, anthropological tracts, parliamentary debates, and instruction manuals. It shows how subtle changes of emphasis reflect evolving colonial attitudes toward conquered territories, shifting from flights of the imagination to factual inquiry, to a narrative of exoticism and heterogeneity that safely compartmentalized colonial “otherness” via natural history, ethnography, and cartographies of disease.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book adopts a thematic approach to elucidate the cultural myth-making at the height of European colonialism in the nineteenth century, focusing on law and order, landscape-planning, and domestication, and showing how dominance and political power were naturalized through awe-inspiring spectacles that humbled natives into obedience. This constructed colonial narrative helped legitimize imperial ambitions as charitable humanitarianism, rather than expose them as asset-stripping and economic manipulation. Finally, the narrative examines colonial aesthetics, arguing that disciplines like archaeology and art history situated Indian art and architecture within a colonial project of interpretation, ironically co-creating fresh notions of “Englishness” and English characters.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Nayar makes the field of 'colonial discourse studies' irresistible to anyone seeking to explore the complex relationship between textual production, (South) Asian Orientalism, and the politics of empire building.\"\u003cbr\u003e - \u003ci\u003eWalter S. H. Lim, National University of Singapore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\"Drawing on an enormous range of writing, Dr. Nayar provides a lucid and nuanced analysis of British representations of India as a continent to be discovered, controlled, ‘civilized’, and incorporated. This important book by one of India’s leading scholars gives students and scholars a significantly new understanding of the complex nature and history of colonial discourse regarding India.\"\u003cbr\u003e - \u003ci\u003eC.L.Innes, University of Kent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A theoretical and historical perspective on colonial discourse…an impressive demonstration of the nature and power of discourse using an array of texts from the archive of British India.\"\u003cbr\u003e - \u003ci\u003eNandana Dutta, Gauahati University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988946501861,"sku":"NP9781444338560","price":124.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781444338560.jpg?v=1761782162","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/colonial-voices-isbn-9781444338560","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}