At the heart of the empire : Indians and the colonial encounter in late-Victorian Britain / / Antoinette Burton

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910495870403321
• Autore: Burton Antoinette M. <1961->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 1998
• ISBN: 9780520919457; 0520919459; 9780585031675; 0585031673
• Edizione: [Reprint 2020]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 278 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.891/411041/09034
• Soggetti: East Indians - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Imperialism - History - 19th century; East Indians - History - 19th century - Great Britain; Great Britain Relations India; Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century; Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901; India Relations Great Britain; Great Britain Ethnic relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-267) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Mapping a Critical Geography of Late-Nineteenth-Century Imperial Britain -- 1. The Voyage In -- 2. "Restless Desire": Pandita Ramabai at Cheltenham and Wantage, 1883-86 -- 3. Cornelia Sorabji in Victorian Oxford -- 4. A "Pilgrim Reformer" at the Heart of the Empire: Behramji Malabari in Late-Victorian London.
• Sommario/riassunto: "In this study, Antoinette Burton investigates the colonial empire through the eyes of three of its Indian subjects. The first of these, Pandita Ramabai, arrived in London in 1883 to seek a medical education. She left in 1886, having resisted the Anglican Church's attempts to make her an evangelical missionary, and began a career as a celebrated social reformer. Cornelia Sorabji went to Oxford to study law and became one of the first Indian women to be called to the bar. ; Already a well-known Bombay journalist, Behramji Malabari traveled to London in 1890 to seek support for his social reform projects. All three left the influence of imperial power keenly during even the most everyday encounters in Britain, and their extensive writings are conscious analyses of how "Englishness" was made and remade in relation to imperialism." "Written clearly and persuasively, this historical treatment of the colonial encounter challenges the myth of Britain's insularity from empire, demonstrating instead that the United Kingdom was a terrain open to contest and refiguration."--Jacket.