Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia

From Improvement to Development

By: Carey A. Watt (Editor), Michael Mann (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 March 2011

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'Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia' offers a series of analyses that highlights the complexities of British and Indian civilizing missions in original ways and through various historiographical approaches. The book applies the concept of the civilizing mission to a number of issues in the colonial and postcolonial eras in South Asia: economic development, state-building, pacification, nationalism, cultural improvement, gender and generational relations, caste and untouchability, religion and missionaries, class relations, urbanization, NGOs, and civil society.

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'The present set of essays is a valuable contribution to the ongoing discourse made relevant in the wake of neocolonialism and invasion of independent nations carried out in the name of progress of "less civilized" societies. [...] [S]uch [a] broad spectrum of continuities of the "civilizing mission," within and beyond India in the colonial and postcolonial periods, adds to the appeal of this volume. [...]This volume should therefore be a necessary addition to the library of every student of history.' -Vinod John, 'Religious Studies Review'

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