Rhetoric and ritual in colonial India : the shaping of a public culture in Surat City, 1852-1928
by Douglas E. Haynes
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This 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 show more 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. show lessMembers
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Douglas E. Haynes is associate professor of history at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Rhetoric and Ritual in Colonial India: The Shaping of a Public Culture in Surat City, 1852-1928 (1991), and co-editor of Contesting Power: Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South Asia (1992) with Gyan Prakash, and of Toward a History of show more Consumption in South Asia (2010) with Abigail McGowan, Tirthankar Roy, and Haruka Yanagisawa. show less
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- Nonfiction, History, Politics and Government, Sociology
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- 306.0954 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Social history Asia Indian Subcontinent
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- HN690 .S97 .H38 — Social sciences Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform Social history and conditions. Social problems. By region or country
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