Distant Sovereignty: National Imperialism and the Origins of British IndiaPsychology Press, 2002 - 216 pages In this broad study of British rule in India during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Sudipta Sen takes up this dual agenda, sketching out the interrelationships between nationalism, imperialism, and identity formation as they played out in both England and South Asia. |
Contents
The State and Its Colonial Frontiers | 1 |
History as Imperial Lesson | 27 |
Invasive Prospects | 57 |
Domesticity and Dominion | 85 |
The Decline of Intimacy | 119 |
Afterword | 151 |
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