India and Imperial Vulnerability
Knowledge, Aesthetics and Subjects in British Discourses of Disaster, 1763-1939
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2026
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7811-4 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7811-4 (ISBN)
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This is a study of disasters – cyclones, earthquakes and famines – in British India, 1770-1934, through a reading of a vast archive of colonial texts. -- .
This study of famines, earthquakes and cyclones in British India, 1770-1934, moves from the aesthetics of representation through the knowledge cultures that sprang up around the disasters and finally the construction of the helpless native and the labouring Englishman. It studies the creation of imperial networks of knowledge acquisition, codification and training, as well as the employment of certain aesthetic modes when speaking of the land’s disasters. It pays attention to the categorization of the disaster victims and the work of the Englishman in understanding and helping the native. The study shows how the disasters were shaped and were shaped by imperial discourses of knowledge and learning, aesthetics of fright and horror and the labouring English. -- .
This study of famines, earthquakes and cyclones in British India, 1770-1934, moves from the aesthetics of representation through the knowledge cultures that sprang up around the disasters and finally the construction of the helpless native and the labouring Englishman. It studies the creation of imperial networks of knowledge acquisition, codification and training, as well as the employment of certain aesthetic modes when speaking of the land’s disasters. It pays attention to the categorization of the disaster victims and the work of the Englishman in understanding and helping the native. The study shows how the disasters were shaped and were shaped by imperial discourses of knowledge and learning, aesthetics of fright and horror and the labouring English. -- .
Pramod K Nayar is Senior Professor of English and holder of the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies at the University of Hyderabad, India. -- .
Introduction: Writing disaster in colonial India
Part I: Disaster Knowledge Cultures
1 The Making of climatological risk
2 Disaster textual production
Part II: Disaster Aesthetics
3 Unscenic nature
4 Ruined matter
Part III: Disaster Subjects
5 Disaster subjects
6 Palliative imperial labour
Conclusion -- .
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.5.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Imperialism |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-7811-7 / 1526178117 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-7811-4 / 9781526178114 |
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