TY  - BOOK
AU  - De Silva,Prasannajit
TI  - Colonial self-fashioning in British India, c. 1785-1845: visualising identity and difference 
SN  - 9781527514287
AV  - DS428 .C656 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - British
KW  - India
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - 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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