ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia provides a comprehensive overview of the historiographical specialisation and sophistication of the history of colonialism in South Asia. It explores the classic works of earlier generations of historians and offers an introduction to the rapid and multifaceted development of historical research on colonial South Asia since the 1990s. Covering economic history, political history, and social history and offering insights from other disciplines and ‘turns’ within the mainstream of history, the handbook is structured in six parts:
- Overarching Themes and Debates
- The World of Economy and Labour
- Creating and Keeping Order: Science, Race, Religion, Law, and Education
- Environment and Space
- Culture, Media, and the Everyday
- Colonial South Asia in the World
The editors have assembled a group of leading international scholars of South Asian history and related disciplines to introduce a broad readership into the respective subfields and research topics. Designed to serve as a comprehensive and nuanced yet readable introduction to the vast field of the history of colonialism in the Indian subcontinent, the handbook will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of South Asian history, imperial and colonial history, and global and world history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |6 pages
Introduction
part I|109 pages
Overarching Themes and Debates
part II|61 pages
The World of Economy and Labour
part III|87 pages
Creating and Keeping Order: Science, Race, Religion, Law, and Education
chapter 20|14 pages
Schooling the subcontinent
part IV|75 pages
Environment and Space
chapter 22|13 pages
Questioning ‘railway-centrism’
chapter 23|15 pages
Colonial port cities and the infrastructure of empire
part V|93 pages
Culture, Media and the Everyday
chapter 28|14 pages
Before Bollywood
part VI|73 pages
Colonial South Asia in the World