Title England re-oriented : how Central and South Asian travelers imagined the West, 1750-1857 / Humberto Garcia, University of California, Merced

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 354 pages) : illustrations Series Critical perspectives on empire Critical perspectives on empire. Contents Introduction : Why re-orient? -- The British Raj's mimic men : historicizing genteel masculinities across empires -- A bluestocking romance : contesting British military masculinity in Joseph Emin's letters and memoir -- The theater of imperial sovereignty : entertaining diplomatic failure in Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin's London travels -- Loving strangers in Ireland : Indo-Celtic masculinities in the travels of Dean Mahomet and Mirza Abu Taleb Khan -- Heavenly bodies in motion : performing sexual revolution in Mirza Abu Taleb Khan's theatrical metropolis -- Dreaming with fairyland : virtual magic in Yusuf Khan Kambalposh's travels to Victorian London -- The making of a munshi patriot : Lutfullah Khan, the Indian Mutiny, and Victorian newsprint -- Epilogue : Mirza Abul Hasan Khan, James Morier, and the queering of Hajji Baba Summary What does the love between British imperialists and their Asian male partners reveal about orientalism's social origins? To answer this question, Humberto Garcia focuses on westward-bound Central and South Asian travel writers who have long been forgotten or dismissed by scholars. This bias has obscured how Joseph Emin, Sake Dean Mahomet, Shaykh I'tesamuddin, Abu Talib Khan, Abul Hassan Khan, Yusuf Khan Kambalposh, and Lutfullah Khan found in their conviviality with Englishwomen and men a strategy for inhabiting a critical agency that appropriated various media to make Europe commensurate with Asia. Drama, dance, masquerades, visual art, museum exhibits, music, postal letters, and newsprint inspired these genteel men to recalibrate Persianate ways of behaving and knowing. Their cosmopolitanisms offer a unique window on an enchanted third space between empires in which Europe was peripheral to Islamic Indo-Eurasia. Encrypted in their mediated homosocial intimacies is a queer history of orientalist mimic men under the spell of a powerful Persian manhood Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Orientalism -- Great Britain -- History Masculinity -- Great Britain -- History Sex role -- Great Britain -- History Travelers' writings -- History and criticism Travel writers -- Asia, Central Travel writers -- South Asia Asians -- Great Britain Asians Masculinity Orientalism Sex role Travel Travel writers Travelers' writings SUBJECT Great Britain -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056663 Subject Central Asia Great Britain South Asia Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108862486 1108862489 9781108852135 1108852130

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