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Spatial Imaginings in the Age of Colonial

by Nilanjana Mukherjee
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780367749583
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India
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  • Pages: 314
  • Original Price: INR 1495.0
  • Language: English
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  • Item Weight: 560 grams
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This volume explores how India as a geographical space was constructed by the British colonial regime in visual and material terms. It demonstrates the instrumentalists of cultural artefacts such as landscape paintings, travel literature and cartography, as spatial practices overtly carrying scientific truth claims, to materially produce artificial spaces that reinforced power relations. It sheds light on the primary dominance of cartographic reason in the age of European enlightenment which framed aesthetic and scientific modes of representation and imagination. The author cross-examines this imperial gaze as a visual perspective which bore the material inscriptions of a will to assert, possess and control. The distinguishing br>Theme in this study is the production of India as a new Geography sources from Britain's own interaction with its rural outskirts and domination in its fringes.
this book:seeks to understand the pictorial grammar that legitimised the expansive British imperial cartographic gaze as the dominant narrative which marginalised all other existing local ideas of space and inhabitation.
rethinking colonial constructions of modern India, this volume will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers of modern history, cultural Geography, colonial studies, English literature, cultural studies, art, visual studies and Area studies.

Nilanjana Mukherjee is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi. Her earlier publications include Mapping India: Transitions and Transformations 18th–19th Centuries (co-edited with Sutapa Dutta, 2019). She has also received the Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize for the year 2014 from the Indian Association of Commonwealth Languages and Literature for her article titled "Drawing Roads/Building Empire: Space and Circulation in Charles D'Oyly's Indian Landscapes" published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 37. She is also a former Charles Wallace India Trust Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK. Related Subjects Asian Studies Imperial & Colonial History Historical Geography Art & Visual Culture Social & Cultural History Cultural Geography History Modern History 1750-1945 British History Asian History Cultural Theory Literature South Asian History India (studies of) South Asian Studies Intellectual History.

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