Colonialism as Civilizing Mission: Cultural Ideology in British India

Description

Ranging from studies on sport and national education and pulp fiction to infanticide, psychiatric therapy and religion, these essays on the various forms, expressions and consequences of the British 'civilizing mission' in South Asia shed light on a topic that even today continues to be an important factor in South Asian politics.

Harald Fischer-Tine is Professor of History at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich). Michael Mann is Assistant Professor and Senior Lecturer at the Fern Universitaet, Hagen.

'What is intellectually stimulating is the variety that this volume offers - the ways in which individual essays bring into light a new body of archival sources as well as the manner in which eash essay offers a specific geographical-cultural episode of a larger pan-Indian narrative around the colonial "civilizing mission."' -Srirupa Prasad, 'Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History'