The other empire: Metropolis, India and progress in the colonial imagination
| Titel: | The other empire: Metropolis, India and progress in the colonial imagination |
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| Veröffentlicht: | [S.I.] : Manchester University Press, 2003 |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9780719060182 |
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- General editor's introduction
- p. ix
- Acknowledgements
- p. xi
- Introduction: metropolis and India
- p. 1
- 1
- The antinomies of progress
- p. 9
- Poverty and progress
- p. 12
- Slavery and progress
- p. 15
- Colonialism and progress
- p. 18
- Progress and the human order
- p. 21
- Progress and its antitheses
- p. 29
- 2
- Desarts of Africa or Arabia
- p. 41
- The needy villains' gen'ral home
- p. 41
- Tricks of the town
- p. 47
- The vast torrent of luxury
- p. 49
- India in European cosmography
- p. 56
- Forraigne sects
- p. 60
- 3
- The intimate connexion
- p. 68
- Discovery of the metropolitan residuum
- p. 68
- Gothic heaps of stone
- p. 72
- Late eighteenth-century travel in India
- p. 76
- Early evangelical activity
- p. 82
- The conversion of heathens
- p. 89
- 4
- A complete cyclopaedia
- p. 101
- Unknown London
- p. 101
- Metropolitan evangelicalism
- p. 107
- Racialization of the poor
- p. 110
- Wandering tribes
- p. 114
- Mayhew's legacy
- p. 120
- 5
- So immense an empire
- p. 130
- A new mode of observation
- p. 130
- The privilege of the traveller
- p. 134
- Racialization of India
- p. 144
- Castes of robbers and thieves
- p. 148
- 6
- In darkest England
- p. 160
- The meaning of dirt
- p. 161
- Degeneration and desire
- p. 166
- Crowds bred in the abyss
- p. 171
- Problems of the race
- p. 176
- 7
- The great museum of races
- p. 187
- Urban mythology
- p. 189
- Nascent ethnology
- p. 191
- 1857 and its aftermath
- p. 195
- Discovery of caste
- p. 204
- Race and progress
- p. 210
- Conclusion
- p. 221
- Index
- p. 231
