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.
* An engaging examination of European colonizers’
representations of native populations
* Analyzes colonial discourse th...
Cuprins
Acknowledgments vii
1 Introducing Colonial Discourse 1
2 Travel, Exploration, and
”Discovery”: From Imagination to Inquiry
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Imagining Multiple Worlds: The Fantasy of
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Despre autor
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 ...