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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Robb, Peter (Peter G.) Liberalism, modernity, and the nation. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2007 (OCoLC)608408452 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Robb |
| ISBN: | 9780195681598 0195681592 |
| OCLC Number: | 85828532 |
| Description: | ix, 231 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Ch. 1. From Clive to Kipling -- Ch. 2. Towards the nation -- Ch. 3. Borders and allegiances -- Ch. 4. Completing 'our stock of geography', or an object 'still more sublime' : Colin Mackenzie's survey of Mysore, 1799-1810 -- Ch. 5. The colonial state and constructions of Indian identity : an example on the northeast frontier in the 1880s -- Ch. 6. The impact of British rule on a religious community : reflections on the trial of Maulvi Ahmadullah of Patna in 1865 -- Ch. 7. Muslim identity and separatism in India : the significance of M.A. Ansari. |
| Series Title: | Oxford collected essays. |
| Responsibility: | Peter Robb. |
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Abstract:
Links between liberal rhetoric and modern technology and governance, and connects them to building of identities, including the nation. This volume investigates the role played by the British Empire in building of modern India.
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