Colonial self-fashioning in British India, c. 1785-1845 : visualising identity and difference / by Prasannajit de Silva.
Material type: TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK ; Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resource (295 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 9781527514287
- DS428 .C656 2018
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Includes bibliographies and index.
A stereotypical view of the nineteenth-century British in India, which might be characterised as one of deliberate isolation and segregation from their surroundings, has recently been complemented by one evoking a high degree of integration and closer co-existence in the eighteenth century. Focusing on a period which straddles this apparent shift, this book explores a variety of ways in which British residents in India represented their lives through visual material, and reveals a more nuanced position. Consideration of these images, which have often been overlooked in the scholarly literature, opens up issues about questions of identity facing the British population in India at this time and facing colonial societies more generally, and about the role of visual culture in negotiating them. It also underlines the fragile and contested nature of identity: the colonists self-fashioning encompassed not only expressions of difference from their Indian setting, but also what distinguished them from their compatriots back in Britain, as well as engaging with metropolitan attitudes towards, and prejudices about, them. --
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