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The domination of strangersmodern governance in Eastern India, 1780-1835 /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The domination of strangersJon E. Wilson.
Reminder of title:	modern governance in Eastern India, 1780-1835 /
Author:	Wilson, Jon E.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2008.
Description:	xii, 242 p. :ill., maps ;23 cm.
Series:	Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
Subject:	Great BritainEconomic policy1979-1997.
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230584396

The domination of strangersmodern governance in Eastern India, 1780-1835 /
Wilson, Jon E.

The domination of strangersmodern governance in Eastern India, 1780-1835 /[electronic resource] :Jon E. Wilson. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2008. - xii, 242 p. :ill., maps ;23 cm. - Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Comparing Eighteenth-Century Political Societies -- Crisis, Anxiety and the Making of a New Order -- Colonial Indecision and the Origins ofthe Hindu Joint Family -- Governing the Power of Proprietors -- The State as Machine and the Ambivalent Origins of Colonial Reform -- Indian Liberalism and Colonial Utilitarianism -- Reflections.

How did the modern state emerge in the non-European world? What was the relationship between colonialism and modern ideas about time? The Domination of Strangers offers the first account of British rule in India that connects the history of political thought to the anxious, everyday world of colonial governance. It argues that the process of colonialstate-building in the province of Bengal occurred in response to uncertainties present within the practical encounter between Britons and Indians. New, characteristically modern forms of law and education emergedin India as the British sought stable forms of meaning in a world theyfound impossible to understand. The response of Indians to those anxieties played a central role in the formation of contemporary South Asiannotions of society, culture and nationhood. Connecting a theoretical perspective on colonial history with an impressive grasp of empirical detail, The Domination of Strangers shows how the colonial encounter generated concepts about the state and civil society with no precedent in Europe or South Asia. The British did not simply import European ideas. Rather, they developed a new approach to government in order to rule people they perceived as strangers. Fundamental to those ideas - and to modern politics throughout the subcontinent since - was a new, restless attitude towards time.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230584396

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230584396doiSubjects--Geographical Terms:

381151
Great Britain
--Economic policy--1979-1997.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: DS485.B48 / W55 2008eb

Dewey Class. No.: 954.14031

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