Suvir Kaul
Biographic Data
| ID | 3633545 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suvir Kaul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suvir |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaul |
| SIGNATURE | KAUL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English
Britannia and the Weight of Empires Past
Falconer's The Shipwreck (1762) contains substantial passages in which the poet surveys the Greco-Roman cities and ruins visible to sailors as they sail past landmasses in the Mediterranean. This survey of past and present is a reminder of the changing fortunes—the rise and fall—of powerful city-states and empires. The poem's primary theme is the peril faced by sailors on trading voyages, on which they provide the labor, face the dangers, but ear…
Remembering Air India
English Poetry in India
What happens if we take for our model of the late eighteenth-century British poet in India not one of the many men who moved there in the service of the East India Company, but a woman about whom we know little – Anna Maria? Mary Ellis Gibson, editor of Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913 , reminds us that all we have of this poet is a slim volume, The Poems of Anna Maria , and that we “can attach no definite name, no parentage, no dat…
A Time without Soldiers
In this article I ask what it means to turn to scholarly analysis to understand better the historical lineages of an urgent contemporary political situation. I first wrote on Kashmir in a journalistic fashion because I was appalled by the militarization and routine suspension of civil rights that I saw when I went there in 2003. Since then I have been thinking of analytical frames in which to provide a longer history for the political mess I obse…
"An’ You will Fight, Till the Death of It…"
In the first section of this paper I analyze the colonial origins of Jammu and Kashmir, in order to suggest that tehreeki politics, and such collective suffering, derive from a longer history of imperial expansion and feudal rule. Then, in the third section, I discuss the enormous violence that accompanied partition, whose afterlife continues to haunt the political imagination in India and Pakistan, and thus to limit discussions of Kashmiri self-…
Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies
Company Affairs
Book Review| January 01 2009 Company Affairs Nicholas B. Dirks. The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain (Cambridge: Harvard Univ., 2006). Pp. 389. $27.95. ISBN 0-674-02166-5Betty Joseph. Reading the East India Company, 1720-1840: Colonial Currencies of Gender (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 2004). Pp. 220. $18 paper. ISBN 0-226-41203-2 Suvir Kaul Suvir Kaul Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteent…
Postcolonial Studies and Beyond
The Past in the Present
The Past in the Present:New Work in Postcolonial and Imperial Studies Suvir Kaul Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment, by David Scott. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. 279. $22.95 paper, $79.95 cloth. Stitches on Time: Colonial Textures and Postcolonial Tangles, by Saurabh Dube. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. xv + 259. $23.95 paper, $84.95 cloth. Gender and Empire, edited by Philippa Levine. Oxford Hist…
The partitions of memory
Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, 1660-1800
This book argues that the eighteenth-century British theater is a dynamic expression and a powerful register of the anxieties and tensions of a culture poised for global supremacy. It also argues that nationalism, as both active movement and contemplative ideology, cannot be separated from the themes of expansionism that propel the many incentives, principles, and sites of performance
Who's Afraid of Mala Mousi? Violence and the "Family Romance" in Anjana Appachana's "Incantations
The recent efflorescence of Writing in English has received a great deal of journalistic and critical commentary, much of which has focused on the traumas and celebrations of the postcolonial nation as they are represented in such work. Salman Rushdie's novels are seen as paradigmatic of the concerns and formal features of this writing: the large and cluttered canvas, the postnationalist cultural irreverence and political scepticism of the male n…
Provincials and Tropicopolitans
Diaspora 9:3 2000 Provincials and Tropicopolitans: Eighteenth Century Literary Studies and the Un-Making of "Great Britain" Suvir Kaul University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804. Srinivas Aravamudan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. In a well-known essay, Dipesh Chakrabarty calls for historians to begin "the project of provincializing 'Europe,' the 'Europe' that modern imperialism and (th…
Separation Anxiety
The partitions of memory
Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, 1660-1800
This book argues that the eighteenth-century British theater is a dynamic expression and a powerful register of the anxieties and tensions of a culture poised for global supremacy. It also argues that nationalism, as both active movement and contemplative ideology, cannot be separated from the themes of expansionism that propel the many incentives, principles, and sites of performance
Separation Anxiety
A Time without Soldiers
In this article I ask what it means to turn to scholarly analysis to understand better the historical lineages of an urgent contemporary political situation. I first wrote on Kashmir in a journalistic fashion because I was appalled by the militarization and routine suspension of civil rights that I saw when I went there in 2003. Since then I have been thinking of analytical frames in which to provide a longer history for the political mess I obse…
Separation Anxiety
Who's Afraid of Mala Mousi? Violence and the "Family Romance" in Anjana Appachana's "Incantations
The recent efflorescence of Writing in English has received a great deal of journalistic and critical commentary, much of which has focused on the traumas and celebrations of the postcolonial nation as they are represented in such work. Salman Rushdie's novels are seen as paradigmatic of the concerns and formal features of this writing: the large and cluttered canvas, the postnationalist cultural irreverence and political scepticism of the male n…
Provincials and Tropicopolitans
Diaspora 9:3 2000 Provincials and Tropicopolitans: Eighteenth Century Literary Studies and the Un-Making of "Great Britain" Suvir Kaul University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804. Srinivas Aravamudan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. In a well-known essay, Dipesh Chakrabarty calls for historians to begin "the project of provincializing 'Europe,' the 'Europe' that modern imperialism and (th…
Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, 1660-1800
This book argues that the eighteenth-century British theater is a dynamic expression and a powerful register of the anxieties and tensions of a culture poised for global supremacy. It also argues that nationalism, as both active movement and contemplative ideology, cannot be separated from the themes of expansionism that propel the many incentives, principles, and sites of performance
The partitions of memory
Postcolonial Studies and Beyond
The Past in the Present
The Past in the Present:New Work in Postcolonial and Imperial Studies Suvir Kaul Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment, by David Scott. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. 279. $22.95 paper, $79.95 cloth. Stitches on Time: Colonial Textures and Postcolonial Tangles, by Saurabh Dube. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. xv + 259. $23.95 paper, $84.95 cloth. Gender and Empire, edited by Philippa Levine. Oxford Hist…
Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies
Company Affairs
Book Review| January 01 2009 Company Affairs Nicholas B. Dirks. The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain (Cambridge: Harvard Univ., 2006). Pp. 389. $27.95. ISBN 0-674-02166-5Betty Joseph. Reading the East India Company, 1720-1840: Colonial Currencies of Gender (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 2004). Pp. 220. $18 paper. ISBN 0-226-41203-2 Suvir Kaul Suvir Kaul Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteent…
"An’ You will Fight, Till the Death of It…"
In the first section of this paper I analyze the colonial origins of Jammu and Kashmir, in order to suggest that tehreeki politics, and such collective suffering, derive from a longer history of imperial expansion and feudal rule. Then, in the third section, I discuss the enormous violence that accompanied partition, whose afterlife continues to haunt the political imagination in India and Pakistan, and thus to limit discussions of Kashmiri self-…
A Time without Soldiers
In this article I ask what it means to turn to scholarly analysis to understand better the historical lineages of an urgent contemporary political situation. I first wrote on Kashmir in a journalistic fashion because I was appalled by the militarization and routine suspension of civil rights that I saw when I went there in 2003. Since then I have been thinking of analytical frames in which to provide a longer history for the political mess I obse…
English Poetry in India
What happens if we take for our model of the late eighteenth-century British poet in India not one of the many men who moved there in the service of the East India Company, but a woman about whom we know little – Anna Maria? Mary Ellis Gibson, editor of Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913 , reminds us that all we have of this poet is a slim volume, The Poems of Anna Maria , and that we “can attach no definite name, no parentage, no dat…
Remembering Air India
Britannia and the Weight of Empires Past
Falconer's The Shipwreck (1762) contains substantial passages in which the poet surveys the Greco-Roman cities and ruins visible to sailors as they sail past landmasses in the Mediterranean. This survey of past and present is a reminder of the changing fortunes—the rise and fall—of powerful city-states and empires. The poem's primary theme is the peril faced by sailors on trading voyages, on which they provide the labor, face the dangers, but ear…
The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English
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