03895nam 22006612 450 991046143790332120151002020704.01-283-37714-497866133771420-85728-830-X(CKB)2670000000122708(EBL)840435(OCoLC)772399359(SSID)ssj0000575728(PQKBManifestationID)12253583(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000575728(PQKBWorkID)10551979(PQKB)11603023(UkCbUP)CR9780857288301(MiAaPQ)EBC840435(Au-PeEL)EBL840435(CaPaEBR)ebr10523546(CaONFJC)MIL337714(EXLCZ)99267000000012270820111212d2011|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCivilizing missions in colonial and postcolonial South Asia from improvement to development /edited by Carey A. Watt and Michael Mann[electronic resource]London :Anthem Press,2011.1 online resource (vi, 337 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Anthem South Asian StudiesTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).1-84331-864-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Anthem South Asian StudiesCivilizing Missions in Colonial & Postcolonial South AsiaMissionsIndiaHistory19th centuryMissionsIndiaHistory20th centuryIndiaHistoryBritish occupation, 1765-1947Great BritainColoniesAsiaSocial policyIndiaCivilizationBritish influencesIndiaColonial influenceMissionsHistoryMissionsHistory954.03Watt Carey AnthonyMann Michael1959-UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910461437903321Civilizing missions in colonial and postcolonial South Asia2489378UNINA