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028			_a: Zafaa Books & Distributors _b: 313/56F, 49A, Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi. _c: ZBD0686 _d: 31/03/2023
082			_a320.954 HAY
100			_aHaynes, Douglas E.
245			_aRhetoric and ritual in colonial India _b : the shaping of a public culture in Surat City, 1852-1928. _c/ Douglas E. Haynes.
260			_a, Berkeley _b: University of California Press _c, ©1991.
300			_axi, 363 pages _b : maps _c:24cm.
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520			_aThis book explores the rhetoric and ritual of Indian elites undercolonialism, focusing on the city of Surat in the Bombay Presidency. It particularly examines how local elites appropriated and modified the liberal representative discourse of Britain and thus fashioned a "public" culture that excluded the city's underclasses. Departing from traditional explanations that have seen this process as resulting from English education or radical transformations in society, Haynes emphasizes the importance of the unequal power relationship between the British and those Indians who struggled for political influence and justice within the colonial framework. A major contribution of the book is Haynes' analysis of the emergence and ultimate failure of Ghandian cultural meanings in Indian politics after 1923. The book addresses issues of importance to historians and anthropologists of India, to political scientists seeking to understand the origins of democracy in the "Third World," and general readers interested in comprehending processes of cultural change in colonial contexts.
650			_aHistory
650			_aPolitics and government
650			_aSocial conditions
650			_aPolitics and government
700			_aDouglas E. Haynes
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