Pramod K. Nayar 
Colonial Voices [EPUB ebook] 
The Discourses of Empire

Acknowledgments vii
1 Introducing Colonial Discourse 1
2 Travel, Exploration, and
”Discovery”: From Imagination to Inquiry
12
Imagining Multiple Worlds: The Fantasy of
”Discovery” 18
The Narrative Organization of Discovery 29
”Inquiry” and the Documentation of
the Others 41
Conclusion: ”Discovery” and Wonder,
”Contracted and Epitomized” 49
3 The Discourse of Difference: Constructing the Colonial
Exotic 55
The Colony and Imperial Wealth 57
The Exotic in English Culture 59
The Colonial Exotic: Aesthetics, Science, and Difference
60
The Sentimental Exotic 62
The Scientific Exotic 79
Conclusion: From the Indian to the Colonial Exotic 95
4 Empire Management: From Domestication to Spectacle
104
The Domestication of Colonial Spaces 106
Administering Colonial Spaces 121
”Raising the General Credit of the
Empire”: The Spectacle of Empire 140
Conclusion: Imperial Improvisation and the Spectacle
145
5 Civilizing the Empire: The Ideology of Moral and Material
Progress 161
England’s Age of Improvement 164
Discipline and Improve 170
Imperial Lessons 174
The Salvific Colonial 178
Rescue, Reform, and Race 183
Conclusion: From Improvement to Self-Legitimization
194
6 Aesthetic Understanding: From Colonial English to Imperial
Cosmopolitans 201
The Self-Fashioning of the Scholar-Colonial 204
Antiquarian Aesthetics and Colonial Authority 213
”Consumption, Ingestion, and
Decoration”: Colonial Commodities 219
The ”Empire City”: Pageantry and
Empire 226
Conclusion: From Colonial English to Imperial
Cosmopolitan 229
References 235
Index 260

Pramod K. Nayar 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 States of Sentiment:
Exploring the Cultures of Emotion (2011), An Introduction to
New Media and Cybercultures (2010), Postcolonialism: A Guide
for the Perplexed (2010), English Writing and India,
1600-1920: Colonizing Aesthetics (2008), and Writing
Wrongs: The Cultural Construction of Human Rights in India
(2012). Forthcoming is a book on new media.