Twenty-one Days in India, Or, The Tour of Sir Ali Baba, K.C.B.
Author : George Aberigh-Mackay
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Page : 276 pages
File Size : 36,72 MB
Release : 1881
Category : India
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Author : George Aberigh-Mackay
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Page : 276 pages
File Size : 36,72 MB
Release : 1881
Category : India
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Author : George Aberigh-Mackay
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Page : 310 pages
File Size : 15,13 MB
Release : 1910
Category : India
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Author : George Aberigh-Mackay
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Page : 270 pages
File Size : 29,52 MB
Release : 1914
Category : British
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Author : George R. Aberigh-Mackay
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Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,75 MB
Release : 1898
Category : India
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Author : George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
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Page : 334 pages
File Size : 15,50 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Anglo-Indians
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Author : John Ellor Taylor
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Page : 370 pages
File Size : 10,94 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Marine animals
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Page : 768 pages
File Size : 23,41 MB
Release : 1880
Category : India
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Author : A.W. Ward
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 10,4 MB
Release : 1967
Category : English literature
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Author : Alan G. Johnson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 25,85 MB
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0824860284
Out of Bounds focuses on the crucial role that conceptions of iconic colonial Indian spaces—jungles, cantonments, cities, hill stations, bazaars, clubs—played in the literary and social production of British India. Author Alan Johnson illuminates the geographical, rhetorical, and ideological underpinnings of such depictions and, from this, argues that these spaces operated as powerful motifs in the acculturation of Anglo-India. He shows that the bicultural, intrinsically ambivalent outlook of Anglo-Indian writers is acutely sensitive to spatial motifs that, insofar as these condition the idea of home and homelessness, alternately support and subvert conventional colonial perspectives. Colonial spatial motifs not only informed European representations of India, but also shaped important aesthetic notions of the period, such as the sublime. This book also explains how and why Europeans’ rhetorical and visual depictions of the Indian subcontinent, whether ostensibly administrative, scientific, or aesthetic, constituted a primary means of memorializing Empire, creating an idiom that postcolonial India continues to use in certain ways. Consequently, Johnson examines specific motifs of Anglo-Indian cultural remembrance, such as the hunting memoir, hill station life, and the Mutiny, all of which facilitated the mythic iconography of the Raj. He bases his work on the premise that spatiality (the physical as well as social conceptualization of space) is a vital component of the mythos of colonial life and that the study of spatiality is too often a subset of a focus on temporality. Johnson reads canonical and lesser-known fiction, memoirs, and travelogues alongside colonial archival documents to identify shared spatial motifs and idioms that were common to the period. Although he discusses colonial works, he focuses primarily on the writings of Anglo-Indians such as Rudyard Kipling, John Masters, Jim Corbett, and Flora Annie Steel to demonstrate how conventions of spatial identity were rhetorically maintained—and continually compromised. All of these considerations amplify this book’s focus on the porosity of boundaries in literatures of the colony and of the nation.Out of Bounds will be of interest to not only postcolonial literary scholars, but also scholars and students in interdisciplinary nineteenth-century studies, South Asian cultural history, cultural anthropology, women’s studies, and sociology.
Author : Sujit Bose
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 20,67 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Indic literature (English)
ISBN : 9788172111748
Contains fine examples of Anglo-Indian literature. The original books were written at various periods in the history of Anglo-Indian literature. The first two chapters are attempts to provide an overview of the beginning and the growth in Anglo-Indian prose and poetry. When Bishop Heber wrote his Journals, he described in detail what he saw and understood in India. The chapter on his Journals contains an analysis of Heber's presentation of the socio-economic-cultural condition of India in the early nineteenth century. The essay on Twenty-One Days in India analyses as to how an Englishman smiled at his own countrymen in colonial India. The behavioural peculiarities of the characters are brought into focus, examined and then mildly satirised. This book is reminiscent of the vignettes that were published during the Victorian period in England. The tetralogy The Near and the Far of L.H. Myers is, among others, exemplary of the author's understanding of the orient. The chapter on this novel is an analysis of the orientalism of the author.