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Commodities and culture in the colonial world /Supriya Chaudhuri

By: Supriya Chaudhuri ; Josephine McDonagh ; Brian H Murray ; Rajeswari Sunder RajanContributor(s): Josephine McDonagh | ; Brian H Murray | ; Rajeswari Sunder RajanMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd. | ;7/22,Ansari Road,Darya Ganj,New Delhi-110002Series: Intersections (London, England), 13Publication details: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group , 2018Description: xiii, 228 pages ;24 cmISBN: 9781138214736Subject(s): Imperialism -- Economic aspects -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Imperialism in literature.DDC classification: 306.34091 CHA

Contents:

Mughal on my lapel : miniatures, mughalerie, and the souvenir market in Delhi, 1827-1880 / Yutika Sharma -- Plates and bangles : early recorded music in India / Amlan Das Gupta -- The overland mail : moving panoramas and the imagining of trade and communication networks / John Plunkett -- Exhibiting India : colonial subjects, imperial objects, and the lives of commodities / Supriya Chaudhuri -- The composition and decomposition of commodities : the colonial careers of coal and ivory / Stephen Muecke -- Profaning water : the sacred and its others / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan -- Settling the land : the village and the threat of capital in the novel in Goa / Rochelle Pinto -- (Re)moving bodies : people, ships and other commodities in the coolie trade from Calcutta / Nilanjana Deb -- Anxiety, affect and authenticity : the commodification of nineteenth-century emigrants' letters / Fariha Shaikh -- Towards a genealogy of the village in the nineteenth-century British colonial world : Mary Russell Mitford and Henry Sumner Maine / Josephine McDonagh -- Indigo and print : the strange case of the "indigo-planting mirror" / Abhijit Gupta -- Al Jabr W'al Muqabila, H.S. Hall, MacMillan and the coming together of things far apart / Rimi B. Chatterjee -- Ulysses in "darkest Africa" : transporting tennyson with H.M. Stanley and Edwin Arnold / Brian H. Murray -- The traffic in representations : the case of Kipling's Kim / Isobel Armstrong.

Summary: Commodity, culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive. The desire for commodities drove colonial expansion at the same time that colonial expansion fuelled technological invention, created new markets for goods, displaced populations and transformed local and indigenous cultures in dramatic and often violent ways. This book analyses the transformation of local cultures in the context of global interaction in the period 1851-1914. By focusing on episodes in the social and cultural lives of commodities, it explores some of the ways in which commodities shaped the colonial cultures of global modernity. Chapters by experts in the field examine the production, circulation, display and representation of commodities in various regional and national contexts, and draw on a range of theoretical and disciplinary approaches. An integrated, coherent and urgent response to a number of key debates in postcolonial and Victorian studies, world literature and imperial history, this book will be of interest to researchers with interests in migration, commodity culture, colonial history and transnational networks of print and ideas

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Mughal on my lapel : miniatures, mughalerie, and the souvenir market in Delhi, 1827-1880 / Yutika Sharma --
Plates and bangles : early recorded music in India / Amlan Das Gupta --
The overland mail : moving panoramas and the imagining of trade and communication networks / John Plunkett --
Exhibiting India : colonial subjects, imperial objects, and the lives of commodities / Supriya Chaudhuri --
The composition and decomposition of commodities : the colonial careers of coal and ivory / Stephen Muecke --
Profaning water : the sacred and its others / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan --
Settling the land : the village and the threat of capital in the novel in Goa / Rochelle Pinto --
(Re)moving bodies : people, ships and other commodities in the coolie trade from Calcutta / Nilanjana Deb --
Anxiety, affect and authenticity : the commodification of nineteenth-century emigrants' letters / Fariha Shaikh --
Towards a genealogy of the village in the nineteenth-century British colonial world : Mary Russell Mitford and Henry Sumner Maine / Josephine McDonagh --
Indigo and print : the strange case of the "indigo-planting mirror" / Abhijit Gupta --
Al Jabr W'al Muqabila, H.S. Hall, MacMillan and the coming together of things far apart / Rimi B. Chatterjee --
Ulysses in "darkest Africa" : transporting tennyson with H.M. Stanley and Edwin Arnold / Brian H. Murray --
The traffic in representations : the case of Kipling's Kim / Isobel Armstrong.

Commodity, culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive. The desire for commodities drove colonial expansion at the same time that colonial expansion fuelled technological invention, created new markets for goods, displaced populations and transformed local and indigenous cultures in dramatic and often violent ways. This book analyses the transformation of local cultures in the context of global interaction in the period 1851-1914. By focusing on episodes in the social and cultural lives of commodities, it explores some of the ways in which commodities shaped the colonial cultures of global modernity. Chapters by experts in the field examine the production, circulation, display and representation of commodities in various regional and national contexts, and draw on a range of theoretical and disciplinary approaches. An integrated, coherent and urgent response to a number of key debates in postcolonial and Victorian studies, world literature and imperial history, this book will be of interest to researchers with interests in migration, commodity culture, colonial history and transnational networks of print and ideas

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