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Title 'Civilizing missions' in colonial and postcolonial South Asia : from improvement to development / edited by Carey A. Watt and Michael Mann
Published London : Anthem, 2011

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Description vi, 337 pages ; 23 cm
Series Anthem South Asian studies
Anthem South Asian studies.
Contents Contents note continued: pt. Three Indian ̀Self-Civilizing' Efforts c. 1900-1930 -- 6.̀Civilizing Sisters': Writings on How to Save Women, Men, Society and the Nation in Late Colonial India / Shobna Nijhawan -- 7.From ̀Social Reform' to ̀Social Service': Indian Civic Activism and the Civilizing Mission in Colonial Bombay c. 1900-20 / Prashant Kidambi -- pt. Four Transcending 1947: Colonial and Postcolonial Continuities -- 8.Female Infanticide and the Civilizing Mission in Postcolonial India: A Case Study from Tamil Nadu c. 1980-2006 / Shahid Perwez -- 9.Philanthropy and Civilizing Missions in India c. 1820-1960: States, NGOs and Development / Carey A. Watt
Machine generated contents note: pt. One The Raj's Reforms and Improvements: Aspects of the British Civilizing Mission -- 1.Conjecturing Rudeness: James Mill's Utilitarian Philosophy of History and the British Civilizing Mission / Adam Knowles -- 2.Art, Artefacts and Architecture: Lord Curzon, the Delhi Arts Exhibition of 1902-03 and the Improvement of India's Aesthetics / Michael Mann -- pt. Two Colonialism, Indians and Nongovernmental Associations: The Ambiguity and Complexity of ̀Improvement' -- 3.Incorporation and Differentiation: Popular Education and the Imperial Civilizing Mission in Early Nineteenth Century India / Jana Tschurenev -- 4.Reclaiming Savages in ̀Darkest England' and ̀Darkest India': The Salvation Army as Transnational Agent of the Civilizing Mission / Harald Fischer-Tine -- 5.Mediating Modernity: Colonial State, Indian Nationalism and the Renegotiation of the ̀Civilizing Mission' in the Indian Child Marriage Debate of 1927-1932 / Andrea Major --
Summary This collection provides a historical exploration of the tensions and complexities of civilizing missions undertaken by British or Indian states or organizations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asia
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Missions, British -- South Asia -- History -- 19th century.
Missions, British -- South Asia -- History -- 20th century.
Missions, Indic -- South Asia -- History -- 19th century.
Missions, Indic -- South Asia -- History -- 20th century.
SUBJECT United Kingdom -- Colonies -- Asia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007183 -- Social policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008646
India -- Civilization -- British influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89004339
India http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80125948 -- Colonial influence. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005253
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064915
Author Mann, Michael, 1959-
Watt, Carey Anthony.
LC no. 2011003908
ISBN 1843318644 (hbk.)
9781843318644 (hbk.)