TY  - BOOK
AU  - Watt,Carey A.
AU  - Mann,Michael
TI  - Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia: From Improvement to Development
T2  - Anthem South Asian Studies
SN  - 9780857288301
AV  - 2011003908 
U1  - 266.00954 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London
PB  - Anthem Press
KW  - India - Civilization - British influences
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Front Matter -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Main Matter -- Introduction THE RELEVANCE AND COMPLEXITY OF CIVILIZING MISSIONS C. 1800-2010 -- Civilizing Missions Today? -- The Present Book -- Postcolonial Britain: An Area for Further Research? -- Notes -- Part One: THE RAJ'S REFORMS AND IMPROVEMENTS: ASPECTS OF THE BRITISH CIVILIZING MISSION -- Chapter One: CONJECTURING RUDENESS: JAMES MILL'S UTILITARIAN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY AND THE BRITISH CIVILIZING MISSION -- Introduction: The History of British India as an Exercise in Futility -- Approaching The History of British India: Mill's Science of Human Nature -- The Scale of Civilizations -- Conjecturing Rudeness: Mill's Historiographical Method -- Conclusion: Mill and the Civilizing Mission -- Notes -- Chapter Two: ART, ARTEFACTS AND ARCHITECTURE: LORD CURZON, THE DELHI ARTS EXHIBITION OF 1902-03 AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF INDIA'S AESTHETICS -- Prologue: On the Political Implications of Art and Architecture -- Art and Architecture as a Marker of Progress -- The Indo-European Debate on Indo-Saracenic vs Palladio-Classic Architecture -- On the Development of Arts and Artefacts: The Delhi Arts Exhibition of 1902-03 -- Epilogue: Of Patronage and Politics -- Notes -- Part Two: COLONIALISM, INDIANS AND NONGOVERNMENTAL ASSOCIATIONS: THE AMBIGUITY AND COMPLEXITY OF 'IMPROVEMENT' -- Chapter Three: INCORPORATION AND DIFFERENTIATION: POPULAR EDUCATION AND THE IMPERIAL CIVILIZING MISSION IN EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY INDIA -- Introduction -- 1. Incorporation: Universal Education for Civilization -- 2. Differentiation: Useful Knowledge for Different Social Positions -- 3. Hierarchical Inclusion, Selective Appropriation, Renegotiating Positions -- 4. Demand and Supply, Technologies and Effects: The 'Copy-Book System'; Conclusion: Tensions of Empire and the Limits of the Civilizing Mission -- Notes -- Chapter Four: RECLAIMING SAVAGES IN 'DARKEST ENGLAND' AND 'DARKEST INDIA': THE SALVATION ARMY AS TRANSNATIONAL AGENT OF THE CIVILIZING MISSION -- Introduction -- The Emergence of Salvationism in Mid-Victorian England -- The Imperial Mission Without -- Concluding Remarks -- Appendix -- Notes -- Chapter Five: MEDIATING MODERNITY: COLONIAL STATE, INDIAN NATIONALISM AND THE RENEGOTIATION OF THE 'CIVILIZING MISSION' IN THE INDIAN CHILD MARRIAGE DEBATE OF 1927-1932 -- Child Marriage, Colonialism and the 'Civilizing Mission' -- Nationalism, Feminism and the 'Self-Civilizing Mission' -- Pragmatism, Principle and the Colonial State -- The Aftermath -- Notes -- Part Three: INDIAN 'SELF-CIVILIZING' EFFORTS C. 1900-1930 -- Chapter Six: 'CIVILIZING SISTERS': WRITINGS ON HOW TO SAVE WOMEN, MEN, SOCIETY AND THE NATION IN LATE COLONIAL INDIA1 -- Conclusion -- Appendix. The Life of Women: Women's Place in Ancient Times -- Notes -- Chapter Seven: FROM 'SOCIAL REFORM' TO 'SOCIAL SERVICE': INDIAN CIVIC ACTIVISM AND THE CIVILIZING MISSION IN COLONIAL BOMBAY C. 1900-1920 -- Introduction -- Reclaiming the 'Depressed Classes' -- Social Work and the Urban Poor -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part Four: TRANSCENDING 1947: COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL CONTINUITIES -- Chapter Eight: FEMALE INFANTICIDE AND THE CIVILIZING MISSION IN POSTCOLONIAL INDIA: A CASE STUDY FROM TAMIL NADU C. 1980-2006 -- Introduction -- Why Female Infanticide in Postcolonial Tamil Nadu? -- Description of the Government Policies and Programmes -- Pre-Application Criteria -- Post-Application Criteria -- Voices from the Field -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Chapter Nine: PHILANTHROPY AND CIVILIZING MISSIONS IN INDIA C. 1820-1960: STATES, NGOS AND DEVELOPMENT -- I. 1820-57: Philanthropy and the East India Company; II. Nationalism, Charity and Constructive Social Work, c. 1890-1947 -- III. 1947-1960: Philanthropy, Development and the Indian State -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Some Indian NGOs Connected to Gandhi's Constructive Programme c. 1915-1948 -- Notes -- Afterword IMPROVEMENT, PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT -- On the Legitimacy of the Civilizing Mission -- On the Origins of the Civilizing Mission -- On the Outcomes of the Civilizing Mission -- Notes -- End Matter -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
N2  - This collection provides a historical exploration of the tensions and complexities of civilizing missions undertaken by British or Indian states or organizations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asia
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