Priyasha Mukhopadhyay
Biographic Data
| ID | 3784501 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Priyasha Mukhopadhyay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Priyasha |
| FAMILY NAME | Mukhopadhyay |
| SIGNATURE | MUKHOPADHYAY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Acoustics of Empire
Listening Like a Theosophist
This essay focuses on the Theosophical Society (est. 1875), an occult movement that, through the efforts of Annie Besant, became closely associated with early Indian anticolonial politics. While the Theosophists spread their doctrine through global networks of print, I argue for the importance of another means by which they did so: the lecture. Through a close examination of a range of theosophical lectures and texts, I argue that the act of list…
The Global Histories of Books
On Not Reading The Soldier’s Pocket-book for Field Service
This essay focuses on Garnet Wolseley’s controversial war instruction manual, The Soldier’s Pocket-book for Field Service (1869). While the Pocket-book’s contribution to discussions of reading and soldiers’ education has carved out a significant place for it in Victorian military history, in its day it was constantly contested and undermined by contradictory representations, as a book much talked about but little read. This essay is an exercise i…
Lady Nugent’s East India Journal
Reviewed by: Lady Nugent’s East India Journal: A critical edition ed. by Ashley L. Cohen Priyasha Mukhopadhyay Lady Nugent’s East India Journal: A critical edition Edited and with an Introduction by Ashley L. Cohen. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014. Over the last two decades, the pull of the government archive and its claim to truth-telling have become increasingly less powerful. As the work of, among others, Anjali Arondekar, Betty Joseph an…
Heroic imperialists in Africa
Of greasy notebooks and dirty newspapers
This essay examines the proliferation of colonial bureaucratic documents in Leonard Woolf’s The Village in the Jungle (1913). With these ranging from account-books to gun permits and legal notices, the essay argues that documents play a fundamental yet mundane role in the lives of the novel’s characters. In the varied responses to these documents, from the confusion of the illiterate peasants to the sly manipulations of the village headman, it is…
Of greasy notebooks and dirty newspapers
This essay examines the proliferation of colonial bureaucratic documents in Leonard Woolf’s The Village in the Jungle (1913). With these ranging from account-books to gun permits and legal notices, the essay argues that documents play a fundamental yet mundane role in the lives of the novel’s characters. In the varied responses to these documents, from the confusion of the illiterate peasants to the sly manipulations of the village headman, it is…
Of greasy notebooks and dirty newspapers
This essay examines the proliferation of colonial bureaucratic documents in Leonard Woolf’s The Village in the Jungle (1913). With these ranging from account-books to gun permits and legal notices, the essay argues that documents play a fundamental yet mundane role in the lives of the novel’s characters. In the varied responses to these documents, from the confusion of the illiterate peasants to the sly manipulations of the village headman, it is…
Heroic imperialists in Africa
On Not Reading The Soldier’s Pocket-book for Field Service
This essay focuses on Garnet Wolseley’s controversial war instruction manual, The Soldier’s Pocket-book for Field Service (1869). While the Pocket-book’s contribution to discussions of reading and soldiers’ education has carved out a significant place for it in Victorian military history, in its day it was constantly contested and undermined by contradictory representations, as a book much talked about but little read. This essay is an exercise i…
Lady Nugent’s East India Journal
Reviewed by: Lady Nugent’s East India Journal: A critical edition ed. by Ashley L. Cohen Priyasha Mukhopadhyay Lady Nugent’s East India Journal: A critical edition Edited and with an Introduction by Ashley L. Cohen. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014. Over the last two decades, the pull of the government archive and its claim to truth-telling have become increasingly less powerful. As the work of, among others, Anjali Arondekar, Betty Joseph an…
The Global Histories of Books
Listening Like a Theosophist
This essay focuses on the Theosophical Society (est. 1875), an occult movement that, through the efforts of Annie Besant, became closely associated with early Indian anticolonial politics. While the Theosophists spread their doctrine through global networks of print, I argue for the importance of another means by which they did so: the lecture. Through a close examination of a range of theosophical lectures and texts, I argue that the act of list…
Acoustics of Empire
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