From Little London to Little Bengal: religion, print, and modernity in early British India, 1793-1835
The British Empire in India involved recursive transactions between the global East and West, channeling cultural, political, and religious formations that were simultaneously distinct and shared, local, national, and transnational.
| Summary: | The British Empire in India involved recursive transactions between the global East and West, channeling cultural, political, and religious formations that were simultaneously distinct and shared, local, national, and transnational. Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Usage -- Introduction -- 1 "Little London": Imperial Publics, Imperial Spectacles -- Indian Public Opinion and John Bullism of the Heart -- The Panorama and the Fabled Cap of Fortunatus -- Inventing Tradition: Durga Puja, Idolatry, and Sympathy -- 2 Secret Sharers and Evangelical Signs: The Idol, the Book, and the Intense Objectivism of Robert Southey -- Baptists, Print, and Idolatry -- The Museum of the Bristol Baptist College and the Service of Idols -- Amenable to wooden gods": Evangelicalism, Idolatry, and The Curse of Kehama -- 3 "I would not have the day return": Henry Derozio and Rammohun Roy in Cosmopolitan Calcutta -- East Indians and "Modern Hindoo Sects" -- Rammohun Roy and Hindu Unitarianism -- Derozio, Memory, Modernity -- 4 "Little Bengal": Returned Exiles, Rammohun Roy, and Imperial Sociability -- Oriental Tales and Orient Pearls -- Jaut Bhaees in Hanover Square: Returned Exiles and the Oriental Club -- The Rajah was there": Rammohun Roy and the Romance of Conversation -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource |
| ISBN: | 1421411652 9781421411651 |
