Masks of Conquest
Literary Study and British Rule in India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20008820 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gauri Viswanathan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 240 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-16 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Masks of Conquest (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.7312/columbia/9780231171694.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W3138115716 |
| Open Library | OL27559344M |
| ISBN | 9780231171694 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 60 |
A classic work in postcolonial studies, Masks of Conquest describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and illuminates the discipline's transcontinental movements and derivations, showing that the origins of English studies are as diverse and diffuse as its future shape will be. In her new preface, Gauri Viswanathan argues forcefully that the curricular study of English can no longer be understood innocently of or inattentively to the imperial contexts in which the discipline first articulated its mission
Ancient history · Art · CONQUEST · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · 19th century · Anglo-Indian literature · British · British occupation, 1765-1947 · Education and state · English literature · History and criticism · India · Indic literature (English) · Politics and education · Politics and literature · Study and teaching
The Elusive Object of Transformation
English Studies as Creole Scholarship
Feminism, imperialism and race
Of cracked lenses
On Grafting the Vernacular
English Is Here to Stay
The Policy—Practice Nexus in English Classrooms in Delhi, Johannesburg, and London
Globalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality
Technologies of the Self
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow and Postcolonial Pedagogy
The Rebel Academy
Caste studies today
Palgrave Advances in Development Studies
English across South Asia
Introduction
Against Global Literary Studies
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
“Whose Union?” Federalism, Funding, and the Ideal Citizen-Student in Indian University Education (1950–1960)
Translanguaging in the classroom
Evangelical educational policy in Britain and India, 1857–60
Reading the World
Ethical Universals in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies
Precarity in princely India
Societal Transformation Through Literature
Thinking Interculturally
Negotiations of Benevolent (Colonial) Tutelage in Carlos Bulosan
Futures Past
The Institutional Cultures of Postcolonial Studies
A Worldly Anglophony
South Korea as Method
English and its others
The project of respectability
A School-Boy's Story
Decolonising pedagogies in prison performance programmes
Violent elements
Reconstructing Local Knowledge
The Muslim Response to English in South Asia
Decoloniality and cultural representations in Nisha Pahuja’s The World Before Her
Poetry after Guantanamo
Persian Professor in Britain
The accentual dialogized heteroglossia of Shakespeare in India
A new public sphere? English-language stand-up comedy in India
Deconstructive pedagogy and ideological demystification in post-colonial Pakistan
Shipwrecked in Jerusalem’
Decolonial-posthuman pedagogy and conceptualising ‘womanness’ in postcolonial Pakistan
Decolonial pedagogy and English literary studies
India's National Curriculum
Delhi, diaspora and religious consciousness
Looking for Portia
International education policy and/as the limits of humanism
The iron dome of Eurocentrism
Does Sanskrit Knowledge Exist
Secularizing the Sacred, Imagining the Nation-Space
Paper, pens and power between empires in north India, 1750–1850
Imperfectly Civilized”
Re-thinking the decolonisation of knowledge and dismantling of intellectual imperialism
The Plants of Empire
Working with the Terms We've Been Given
Language Policy as Cultural Politics
No country, no cry
| Unique citing works | 60 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,71 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2026 (36) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 49 |