Jon E Wilson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3980075 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jon E Wilson |
| PRENOMES | Jon E |
| SOBRENOME | Wilson |
| ASSINATURA | WILSON J E |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Emergence of British Power in India, 1600–1784
Britain’s conquest of India remains poorly understood. The dominance of arguments about capitalism and modernity in mid-twentieth-century scholarship directed attention to later moments of imperial expansion. The centrality of culture more recently has compounded neglect of imperial events in favour of the history of sometimes seemingly more timeless structures of meaning, again during later incarnations of empire. G.J. Bryant’s work is a sign of…
Islanded
The State as Machine and the Ambivalent Origins of Colonial Utilitarianism
Writing from Calcutta in July 1830, Holt Mackenzie criticised the uncertain and ‘vacillating’ nature of British government in Bengal. Mackenzie was at the centre of the colonial regime in Calcutta. As secretary to the government for the 14 years before he returned to London in 1831, he was the pivotal figure around which the concepts and correspondence of British rule revolved. 1 Governor-General Lord William Bentinck (1828-1835) suggested that h…
Indian Liberalism and Colonial Utilitarianism
In 1904, Rabindranath Tagore used a meeting about water scarcity in Calcutta to lecture his audience on the nature of the Indian body politic. What was distinctive about India, Tagore argued, was the absolute separation between samaj and sarkar , or between society and the state. In England, he believed, social organisation depended on the actions of the government. There he supposed, ‘the state is mainly responsible for the welfare of the people…
Reflections
In the nineteenth-century Anglophone world, the phrase ‘the domination of strangers’ referred to rule by one people of another. The word stranger meant foreigner. The domination of strangers was associated with conquest, usurpation and interference. It was a phrase used to criticise subjects as varied as ‘Popish’ dominance and the inability of a municipal corporation to manage its own waterworks. The domination of strangers was an unnatural state…
Crisis, Anxiety and the Making of a New Order
A few months after Louis XVI was executed in France, the English peer Charles Cornwallis ended his seven-year term as Governor-General of Bengal (1786–1793). In the months before he left, Cornwallis transformed the British governance of India, putting in place a series of dramatic reforms in the East India Company’s administration of revenue and law. The Company had possessed some form of sovereignty in Bengal after wielding military force and be…
Comparing Eighteenth-Century Polities
In a lecture delivered in 1917, the Bengali historian and sociologist Benoy Kumar Sarkar argued that modernity was a late arrival to Europe. Sarkar described his own present-day as ‘an age of Pullman cars, electric lifts, long distance telephones, zeppelins and “the new woman”’. 1 When they compared Asia and Europe, he noted, ‘Eur-American scholars seem to assume that these have been the inseparable features of the Western world all through the a…
Governing the Power of Proprietors
A year after the permanent settlement was promulgated, Thomas Brooke, judge of the district of Birbhum in north-western Bengal, wrote to his superiors in Calcutta. Brooke was perplexed. He wanted an answer to a ‘general question’ about how he should govern disputes between landholders and their tenants. From 1793, the British regime insisted that all Bengal’s cultivators accept documents, called pattas , that stated the amount and price of the la…
Colonial Indecision and the Origins of the Hindu Joint Family
Writing to a friend in London in 1773, the young John Shore articulated his confident ability to decide property disputes in Bengal. ‘Though you will judge this more properly the province of an able lawyer’, the 22 year-old suggested, a tolerable knowledge of the language, and the being somewhat conversant with the religious and judicial customs of the natives (which are never infringed in our decisions) are sufficient qualifications for exercisi…
The Domination of Strangers
Maps and Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Comparing Eighteenth-Century Political Societies Crisis, Anxiety and the Making of a New Order Colonial Indecision and the Origins of the Hindu Joint Family Governing the Power of Proprietors The State as Machine and the Ambivalent Origins of Colonial Reform Indian Liberalism and Colonial Utilitarianism Reflections Notes Bibliography
The Domination of Strangers
Offering a major new interpretation of the transformation of political thought and practice in colonial India, The Domination of Strangers traces the origins of modern ideas about the state and Indian
Early Colonial India Beyond Empire
Since 1947, the relationship between Indian society and the British empire has provided the most important frame of reference for scholars writing about the history of modern India. India is often treated merely as an exemplar of the colonial condition. As a result, scholars have failed properly to examine modern India's participation in global processes of historical change, and been reluctant adequately to ‘provincialize’ Europe. This review ar…
A Thousand Countries To Go To
The Domination of Strangers
Offering a major new interpretation of the transformation of political thought and practice in colonial India, The Domination of Strangers traces the origins of modern ideas about the state and Indian
Early Colonial India Beyond Empire
Since 1947, the relationship between Indian society and the British empire has provided the most important frame of reference for scholars writing about the history of modern India. India is often treated merely as an exemplar of the colonial condition. As a result, scholars have failed properly to examine modern India's participation in global processes of historical change, and been reluctant adequately to ‘provincialize’ Europe. This review ar…
A Thousand Countries To Go To
A Thousand Countries To Go To
Early Colonial India Beyond Empire
Since 1947, the relationship between Indian society and the British empire has provided the most important frame of reference for scholars writing about the history of modern India. India is often treated merely as an exemplar of the colonial condition. As a result, scholars have failed properly to examine modern India's participation in global processes of historical change, and been reluctant adequately to ‘provincialize’ Europe. This review ar…
The State as Machine and the Ambivalent Origins of Colonial Utilitarianism
Writing from Calcutta in July 1830, Holt Mackenzie criticised the uncertain and ‘vacillating’ nature of British government in Bengal. Mackenzie was at the centre of the colonial regime in Calcutta. As secretary to the government for the 14 years before he returned to London in 1831, he was the pivotal figure around which the concepts and correspondence of British rule revolved. 1 Governor-General Lord William Bentinck (1828-1835) suggested that h…
Indian Liberalism and Colonial Utilitarianism
In 1904, Rabindranath Tagore used a meeting about water scarcity in Calcutta to lecture his audience on the nature of the Indian body politic. What was distinctive about India, Tagore argued, was the absolute separation between samaj and sarkar , or between society and the state. In England, he believed, social organisation depended on the actions of the government. There he supposed, ‘the state is mainly responsible for the welfare of the people…
Reflections
In the nineteenth-century Anglophone world, the phrase ‘the domination of strangers’ referred to rule by one people of another. The word stranger meant foreigner. The domination of strangers was associated with conquest, usurpation and interference. It was a phrase used to criticise subjects as varied as ‘Popish’ dominance and the inability of a municipal corporation to manage its own waterworks. The domination of strangers was an unnatural state…
Crisis, Anxiety and the Making of a New Order
A few months after Louis XVI was executed in France, the English peer Charles Cornwallis ended his seven-year term as Governor-General of Bengal (1786–1793). In the months before he left, Cornwallis transformed the British governance of India, putting in place a series of dramatic reforms in the East India Company’s administration of revenue and law. The Company had possessed some form of sovereignty in Bengal after wielding military force and be…
Comparing Eighteenth-Century Polities
In a lecture delivered in 1917, the Bengali historian and sociologist Benoy Kumar Sarkar argued that modernity was a late arrival to Europe. Sarkar described his own present-day as ‘an age of Pullman cars, electric lifts, long distance telephones, zeppelins and “the new woman”’. 1 When they compared Asia and Europe, he noted, ‘Eur-American scholars seem to assume that these have been the inseparable features of the Western world all through the a…
Governing the Power of Proprietors
A year after the permanent settlement was promulgated, Thomas Brooke, judge of the district of Birbhum in north-western Bengal, wrote to his superiors in Calcutta. Brooke was perplexed. He wanted an answer to a ‘general question’ about how he should govern disputes between landholders and their tenants. From 1793, the British regime insisted that all Bengal’s cultivators accept documents, called pattas , that stated the amount and price of the la…
Colonial Indecision and the Origins of the Hindu Joint Family
Writing to a friend in London in 1773, the young John Shore articulated his confident ability to decide property disputes in Bengal. ‘Though you will judge this more properly the province of an able lawyer’, the 22 year-old suggested, a tolerable knowledge of the language, and the being somewhat conversant with the religious and judicial customs of the natives (which are never infringed in our decisions) are sufficient qualifications for exercisi…
The Domination of Strangers
Maps and Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Comparing Eighteenth-Century Political Societies Crisis, Anxiety and the Making of a New Order Colonial Indecision and the Origins of the Hindu Joint Family Governing the Power of Proprietors The State as Machine and the Ambivalent Origins of Colonial Reform Indian Liberalism and Colonial Utilitarianism Reflections Notes Bibliography
The Domination of Strangers
Offering a major new interpretation of the transformation of political thought and practice in colonial India, The Domination of Strangers traces the origins of modern ideas about the state and Indian
Islanded
The Emergence of British Power in India, 1600–1784
Britain’s conquest of India remains poorly understood. The dominance of arguments about capitalism and modernity in mid-twentieth-century scholarship directed attention to later moments of imperial expansion. The centrality of culture more recently has compounded neglect of imperial events in favour of the history of sometimes seemingly more timeless structures of meaning, again during later incarnations of empire. G.J. Bryant’s work is a sign of…
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