Civilizing missions in colonial and postcolonial South Asia : from improvement to development / / edited by Carey A. Watt and Michael Mann [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461437903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Anthem Press, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-37714-4; 9786613377142; 0-85728-830-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 337 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Anthem South Asian Studies
• Disciplina: 954.03
• Soggetti: Missions - India - History - 19th century; Missions - India - History - 20th century; India History British occupation, 1765-1947; Great Britain Colonies Asia Social policy; India Civilization British influences; India Colonial influence
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: the relevance and complexity of civilizing missions c. 1800-2010 / Carey A. Watt -- Conjecturing rudeness: James Mill's utilitarian philosophy of history and the British civilizing mission / Adam Knowles -- Art, artefacts and architecture: Lord Curzon, the Delhi Arts Exhibition of 1902-03 and the improvement of India's aesthetics / Michael Mann -- Incorportaion and differentiation: popular education and the imperial civilizing mission in early nineteenth century India / Jana Tschurenev -- Reclaiming savages in 'darkest England' and 'darkest India': the Salvation Army as transnational agent of the civilizing mission / Harald Fischer-Tiné -- Mediating modernity: colonial state, Indian nationalism and the renegotiation of the 'civilizing mission' in the Indian child marriage debate of 1927-1932 / Andrea Major -- 'Civilizing sisters': writings on how to save women, men, society and the nation in late colonial India / Shobna Nijhawan -- From 'social reform' to 'social service': Indian civic activism and the civilizing ; mission in colonial Bombay c. 1900-20 / Proshant Kidambi -- Female infanticide and the civilizing mission in postcolonial India: a case study from Tamil Nadu c. 1980-2006 / Shahid Perwez -- Philanthropy and civilizing missions in India c. 1820-1960: states, NGOs and development / Carey A. Watt -- Afterward: improvement, progress and development / Michael Mann.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.