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Journal articles on the topic "British women in colonial India"

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GUPTA, CHARU. "‘Innocent’ Victims/‘Guilty’ Migrants: Hindi public sphere, caste and indentured women in colonial North India." Modern Asian Studies 49, no. 5 (March 18, 2015): 1345–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x14000031.

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AbstractThis article analyses representations of the indentured woman in the Hindi print-public sphere of colonial north India in the early twentieth century. There have been sophisticated studies on the condition of Indian women in the plantation colonies of the British Empire, this article focuses instead on the vernacular world within India, showing how the transnational movements of these women emigrants led to animated discussions, in which they came to be constructed as both innocent victims and guilty migrants, insiders and outsiders. The ways in which these mobile women came to be represented reveal significant intersections between nation, gender, caste, sexuality, and morality. It also demonstrates how middle-class Indian women attempted to establish bonds of diasporic sisterhood with low-caste indentured women, bonds that were also deeply hierarchical. In addition, the article attempts to grasp the subjective experiences of Dalit migrant, and potentially migrant, women themselves, and illustrates their ambivalences of identity in particularly gendered ways.

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SHARANYA. "An Eye for an Eye: the Hapticality of Collaborative Photo-Performance in Native Women of South India." Theatre Research International 44, no. 02 (July 2019): 118–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883319000014.

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This article examines the haptic politics of the Native Women of South India: Manners and Customs (2000–2004) ‘theatre museum’ composed by Indian performance artist Pushpamala N. and British photographer Clare Arni. Through a transnational collaboration, Native Women re-creates a visual genealogy of ‘popular’ Indian women images, reckoning with legacies of colonial and photographic studio photography. The article focuses on the engagements of Native Women with colonial representations of ‘the native’ (woman) in particular and asks: How does a transnational project resituating colonial ethnographic practices inform feminist performance methodologies? How does this photo-performance develop a haptic attempt at transnational solidarity? In what ways do haptic entanglements with photo-performance constitute new imaginations for collaborative practices? The article repositions Native Women as a performance work that reflects collaboration as a process of political intimacy.

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Jain, Sagaree. "The Queen’s Daughters: White Prostitutes, British India and the Contagious Diseases Acts." ANTYAJAA: Indian Journal of Women and Social Change 2, no. 1 (June 2017): 4–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2455632717722655.

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Within the larger subject of the regulation of prostitution under the British Empire in South Asia, this article examines the figure of the White Prostitute in brothels and lock hospitals in colonial India. The White Prostitute in colonial India was in every way segregated from her native counterparts: in medicine, in physical quarters and in popular conceptions of her mobility, agency and rationality. Despite their mistreatment and vulnerability in many sources, white prostitutes were understood as closer to the ideal of regulable, liberal subjecthood compared to Indian women working in the same conditions and ultimately demonstrated the dynamism of the conditions of prostitution in this time and place. Through examination of literature, advocacy and military records, this article contends that the figure of the White Prostitute fractured concepts of caste-based prostitution in India and was wielded by imperial feminists to attack British regulation of prostitution and sexual slavery in India for brown as well as white women.

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Southard, Barbara. "Colonial Politics and Women's Rights: Woman Suffrage Campaigns in Bengal, British India in the 1920s." Modern Asian Studies 27, no. 2 (May 1993): 397–439. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x00011549.

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The historian Geraldine Forbes, writing on the origins of the woman suffrage movement in India, stated: ‘the firm insistence of organized women—that they be treated as equals of men on the franchise issue—emerged not from the perceptions of the needs of the women in India, but as the result of the influence of certain British women, in the case of the first demand for the franchise, 1917, and as a response to the nationalist movement, in the case of the second demand for franchise, 1927–33.’

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Zaidi, Najia A. "Woman Subjection As Reflected In Sidhwa’s Cracking India." Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies 2, no. 1 (September 8, 2009): 79–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/pjgs.v2i1.356.

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The Indian subcontinent gained independence from the British Raj in 1947, and got divided into two states: India and Pakistan. This division was the result of religious conflict that turned into a great tragedy of the region forcing millions to leave the part they were living in and killing large number of innocent people. Women became the worst victims of partition on both sides of the border. Sidhwa captures the position of woman through historical perspective. This paper examines the retelling of partition by Sidhwa in her novel Cracking India and portrays the exploitation, manipulation and oppression of women in relation to politics, religion and society. The publication of this novel establishes it as feminist text that calls for reconsideration of women’s rights and status in Post-Colonial Pakistan.

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Jhala, Angma D. "The Malabar Hill murder trial of 1925." Indian Economic & Social History Review 46, no. 3 (July 2009): 373–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001946460904600305.

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This article seeks to address issues relating to sovereignty, law and sexual politics in colonial princely India through an examination of the Malabar Hill Murder Trial of 1925 in the Bombay High Court. In this particular case, the Hindu Maratha Maharaja of Indore was charged with the murder of his Muslim courtesan's lover. The ensuing trial illuminates two important developments in late colonial Indian law. First, it reveals how British courts empowered some Indian women as individual agents before the law, despite the restrictions of pardah (or seclusion), to contest and resist indigenous patriarchies. Second, it exposes the complex rela-tionship between Indian kingship and British paramountcy. Due to their position as semi-autonomous rulers, who were not under the restrictions of British Indian law, native princes were exempt from being tried in British Indian courts on the basis of their treaty regulations. This case discusses the extent to which the sexual desires and love unions of the Indian kings were affected by the princely state's fraught relationship with the colonial regime. In this in-stance, the Malabar Hill Murder trial cost the ruler his gaddi (throne) when he was compelled to abdicate.

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Sen, Indrani. "Devoted Wife/Sensuous Bibi: Colonial Constructions of the Indian Woman, 1860-1900." Indian Journal of Gender Studies 8, no. 1 (March 2001): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/097152150100800101.

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Current research has rather tended to neglect the print culture of 19th-century British India and its contribution towards the formation of gender ideologies. This article attempts to scrutinise the clamorous voices of the print culture: the newspapers, popular periodicals as well as copious published works, and to unravel the complex and sometimes contradictory web of constructions that ihese built around the gendered colonised. The second half of the century witnessed a definite cultural focus on the Indian woman. Among other things, this interest took the form of a constant engagement with the subject of the 'native' female in the print culture of the British community resident in India. The article explores the multifaceted and pluralistic representation of the Indian woman, ranging from prurient accounts of native female sensuality and discussion of social reform issues to laudatory inscriptions of wifely devotion and the sati. In other words, the image of the Indian woman was constantly being reconstituted and proscriptions of her sensuousness were interwoven with prescriptions of passive feminine behaviour. Admired models of perceived Eastern female docility were often selectively drawn upon, in a process constituting an 'Indianisation' of the Anglo-Indian female paradigm. While it is well recognised that representations of Indian women were strategically linked to the agenda of empire, what this article also tries to show is that, due to the complex interconnections between the ideologies of gender and empire, these gender representations also served to contain disturb ing issues raised by the contemporary women's movement in England.

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Henry, Nancy. "GEORGE ELIOT AND THE COLONIES." Victorian Literature and Culture 29, no. 2 (September 2001): 413–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150301002091.

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Women are occasionally governors of prisons for women, overseers of the poor, and parish clerks. A woman may be ranger of a park; a woman can take part in the government of a great empire by buying East India Stock.— Barbara Bodichon, A Brief Summary in Plain Language, of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women (1854)ON OCTOBER 5, 1860, GEORGE HENRY LEWES VISITED a solicitor in London to consult about investments. He wrote in his journal: “[The Solicitor] took me to a stockbroker, who undertook to purchase 95 shares in the Great Indian Peninsular Railway for Polly. For £1825 she gets £1900 worth of stock guaranteed 5%” (qtd. in Ashton, Lewes 210). Thus Marian Evans, called Polly by her close friends, known in society as Mrs. Lewes and to her reading public as George Eliot, became a shareholder in British India. Whether or not Eliot thought of buying stock as taking part in the government of a great empire, as her friend Barbara Bodichon had written in 1854, the 5% return on her investment was a welcome supplement to the income she had been earning from her fiction since 1857. From 1860 until her death in 1880, she was one of a select but growing number of middle-class investors who took advantage of high-yield colonial stocks.1 Lewes’s journals for 1860–1878 and Eliot’s diaries for 1879–80 list dividends from stocks in Australia, South Africa, India, and Canada. These include: New South Wales, Victoria, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town Rail, Colonial Bank, Oriental Bank, Scottish Australian, Great Indian Peninsula, Madras. The Indian and colonial stocks make up just less than half of the total holdings. Other stocks connected to colonial trade (East and West India Docks, London Docks), domestic stocks (the Consols, Regents Canal), and foreign investments (Buenos Aires, Pittsburgh and Ft. Wayne) complete the portfolio.2

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Legrandjacques, Sara. "Law of the Strongest? A Global Approach of Access to Law Studies and Its Social and Professional Impact in British India (1850s–1940s)." Social Sciences 10, no. 3 (March 23, 2021): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci10030113.

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This paper examines how access to law studies in British India challenged social stratifications within the colony, from the 1850s up to the 1940s. It highlights the impact of educational trajectories—colonial, imperial and global—on social positions and professional careers. Universities in British India have included faculties of law since the foundation of the first three universities in 1857. Although numerous native students enrolled at these Indian institutions, some of them chose to pursue their legal training in the imperial metropole. Being admitted into an Inn of Court, they could consequently become barristers, a title that was not available for holders of an Indian degree. This dual system differentiated degree-holders, complexifying the colonial hierarchy in a way that was sometimes denounced by both the colonized and the imperial authorities. Last but not least, access to higher education also impacted gendered identities: academic migration at times allowed some Indian women to graduate in Law but these experiences remained quite exceptional until the end of the Second Word War.

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Khattak, Zahir Jang, Hira Ali, and Shehrzad Ameena Khattak. "Post-colonial Feminist Critique of Roys The God of Small Thing." Global Social Sciences Review IV, no. II (June 30, 2019): 344–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(iv-ii).44.

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The present study intends to thoroughly examine the Postcolonial feminist perspective in Arundhati Roys novel The God of Small Things by focusing on the theoretical approaches of Gaytri Spivak, Trinh T.Minha and Ania Loomba. The ambivalent personality of colonized women is tarnished due to subalternity imposed by the patriarchal culture of India. The destructive nature of the Western Imperialism forced the people to endure wild oppression by British colonizers. Postcolonialism paved the way for the double oppression of women. Women became the victim of not only British Imperialists but also native cultural patriarchy. Roy successfully intricates three generations of women i.e Baby Kochamma, Mammachi, Ammu, and Rahel into the fabric of the novel to acme the plight of women in the Third World Nations..

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Hasseler, Theresa A. ""Myself in India" : the memsahib figure in colonial India /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9364.

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Lewis, Caroline. "Establishing India : British women's missionary organisations and their outreach to the women and girls of India, 1820-1870." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/15737.

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Establishing India explores how British Protestant women’s foreign missionary societies of the mid nineteenth century established and negotiated outreach to the women and girls of India. The humanitarian claims made about Indian women in the missionary press did not translate into direct missionary activity by British women. Instead, India was adopted as a site of missionary activity for more complex and local reasons: from encounters with opportunistic colonial informants to seeking inclusion in national organisations. The prevailing narrative about women’s missionary work in nineteenth-century India is both distorted and unsatisfactory. British women’s missionary work has been characterised as focused on seeking to enter and transform the high-caste Hindu household. This both obscures other important groups of females who were key historical actors, and it reduces the scope of women’s work to the domestic and private. In fact, British women missionaries sought inclusion in mainstream missionary strategies, which afforded them visibility, largely through establishing schools and orphanages. They also engaged with mainstream discourses of colonial and missionary education in India. Establishing India also details how India was established for British missionary women through texts and magazines. Missionary magazines provided British women with a continuous record of women’s work in India, reinforcing a belief in the providential rightfulness of the project. Magazines also both facilitated and misrepresented various types of work that British women engaged with in India: orphan sponsorship was established through the magazines and myths of zenana work were constructed. Missionary magazines were crucial to counteracting male narratives of white female absence or victimhood in India and they served to keep the women’s missionary project in India both visible and intact.

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Bhattacharjee, Dharitri. "British women's views of twentieth-century India an examination of obstacles to cross-cultural understandings /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1188234757.

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Bhattacharjee, Dharitri. "British Women’s Views of Twentieth-Century India: An Examination of Obstacles to Cross-Cultural Understandings." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1188234757.

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Pasala, Kavitha. "Flora Annie Steel: British Memsahib or New Woman?" University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1374685250.

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Richardson, Dionna D. "Purloined Subjects: Race, Gender, and the Legacies of Colonial Surveillance in the British Caribbean." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1563610112030263.

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O'Neal, Kathleen Nicole. "The British in colonial India reformers or preservationists? /." Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida State University, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/lib/digcoll/undergraduate/honors-theses/244592.

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Pass, Andrea Rose. "British women missionaries in India, c.1917-1950." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4777425f-65ef-4515-8bfe-979bf7400c08.

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Although by 1900, over 60% of the British missionary workforce in South Asia was female, women’s role in mission has often been overlooked. This thesis focuses upon women of the two leading Anglican societies – the high-Church Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) and the evangelical Church Missionary Society (CMS) – during a particularly underexplored and eventful period in mission history. It uses primary material from the archives of SPG at Rhodes House, Oxford, CMS at the University of Birmingham, St Stephen’s Community, Delhi, and the United Theological College, Bangalore, to extend previous research on the beginnings of women’s service in the late-nineteenth century, exploring the ways in which women missionaries responded to unprecedented upheaval in Britain, India, and the worldwide Anglican Communion in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. In so doing, it contributes to multiple overlapping historiographies: not simply to the history of Church and mission, but also to that of gender, the British Empire, Indian nationalism, and decolonisation. Women missionaries were products of the expansion of female education, professional opportunities, and philanthropic activity in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Britain. Their vocation was tested by living conditions in India, as well as by contradictory calls to marriage, career advancement, familial duties, or the Religious Life. Their educational, medical, and evangelistic work altered considerably between 1917 and 1950 owing to ‘Indianisation’ and ‘Diocesanisation,’ which sought to establish a self-governing ‘native’ Church. Women’s absorption in local affairs meant they were usually uninterested in imperial, nationalist, and Anglican politics, and sometimes became estranged from the home Church. Their service was far more than an attempt to ‘colonise’ Indian hearts and minds and propagate Western ideology. In reality, women missionaries’ engagement with India and Indians had a far more profound impact upon them than upon the Indians they came to serve.

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Deshpande, Anirudh. "British military policy in India, 1900-1945 : colonial constraints and declining power /." New Delhi : Manohar, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb401622912.

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Sen, Samita. "Women and labour in late colonial India : the Bengal jute industry /." Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37097970j.

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Books on the topic "British women in colonial India"

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Reading the East India Company, 1720-1840: Colonial currencies of gender. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

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Sovereignty and social reform in India: British colonialism and the campaign against sati, 1830-60. London: Routledge, 2011.

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The fishing fleet: Husband-hunting in the Raj. Bath: Windsor, 2013.

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Colonial justice in British India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Women in Colonial India. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2013.

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Booker, M. Keith. Colonial power, colonial texts: India in the modern British novel. Ann Arbor, Mich: University of Michigan Press, 1997.

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Kapur, Shilpi. British colonial institutions and economic development in india. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2006.

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Kapur, Shilpi. British colonial institutions and economic development in India. Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2006.

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Civilizing women: British crusades in colonial Sudan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.

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Perceptions, emotions, sensibilities: Essays on India's colonial and post-colonial experiences. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Book chapters on the topic "British women in colonial India"

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Ghose, Indira. "The Memsahib Myth: Englishwomen in Colonial India." In Women & Others, 107–28. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230607323_6.

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Buckingham, Jane. "Leprosy Treatment: Indigenous and British Approaches." In Leprosy in Colonial South India, 76–106. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781403932730_5.

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Moulds, Alison. "The Colonial Practitioner in British India." In Medical Identities and Print Culture, 1830s–1910s, 213–59. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74345-1_6.

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Longkumer, Tiatemsu. "The Naga Mind: Colonial Encounter and Religion." In Tribe-British Relations in India, 143–53. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3424-6_8.

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Buckingham, Jane. "Patient or Prisoner? Leprosy Sufferers in British Institutional Care." In Leprosy in Colonial South India, 36–60. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781403932730_3.

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Arnold, David. "The Poison Panics of British India." In Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings, 49–71. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45136-7_3.

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Lahiri, Shompa. "Women, migration, and travel from colonial India." In Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia, 439–49. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429431012-41.

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Kumar, Dharma. "The Taxation of Agriculture in British India and Dutch Indonesia." In Two Colonial Empires, 203–25. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4366-7_10.

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Joshi, Anil K. "Engaging with Tribes of Eastern Kumaun in Colonial Era." In Tribe-British Relations in India, 53–64. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3424-6_2.

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Kynch, Jocelyn, and Maureen Sibbons. "Women Dying, Women Working: Disempowerment in British India." In Women and Empowerment, 164–88. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26265-6_11.

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Conference papers on the topic "British women in colonial India"

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Mallick, Bhaswar. "Instrumentality of the Labor: Architectural Labor and Resistance in 19th Century India." In 2018 ACSA International Conference. ACSA Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.intl.2018.49.

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19th century British historians, while glorifying ancient Indian architecture, legitimized Imperialism by portraying a decline. To deny vitality of native architecture, it was essential to marginalize the prevailing masons and craftsmen – a strain that later enabled portrayal of architects as cognoscenti in the modern world. Now, following economic liberalization, rural India is witnessing a new hasty urbanization, compliant of Globalization. However, agrarian protests and tribal insurgencies evidence the resistance, evocative of that dislocation in the 19th century; the colonial legacy giving way to concerns of internal neo-colonialism.

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Reports on the topic "British women in colonial India"

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Kapur, Shilpi, and Sukkoo Kim. British Colonial Institutions and Economic Development in India. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w12613.

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