{"product_id":"indian-arrivals-1870-1915-networks-of-british-empire-paperback","title":"Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElleke Boehmer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIndian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire\u003c\/em\u003e explores the rich and complicated landscape of intercultural contact between Indians and Britons on British soil at the height of empire, as reflected in a range of literary writing, including poetry and life-writing. The book's four decade-based case studies, leading from 1870 and the opening of the Suez Canal, to the first years of the Great War, investigate from several different textual and cultural angles the central place of India in the British metropolitan imagination at this relatively early stage for Indian migration. Focussing on a range of remarkable Indian 'arrivants' -- scholars, poets, religious seekers, and political activists including Toru Dutt and Sarojini Naidu, Mohandas Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore -- Indian Arrivals examines the take-up in the metropolis of the influences and ideas that accompanied their transcontinental movement, including concepts of the west and of cultural decadence, of urban\u003cbr\u003emodernity and of cosmopolitan exchange. If, as is now widely accepted, vocabularies of inhabitation, education, citizenship and the law were in many cases developed in colonial spaces like India, and imported into Britain, then, the book suggests, the presence of Indian travellers and migrants needs to be seen as much more central to Britain's understanding of itself, both in historical terms and in relation to the present-day. The book demonstrates how the colonial encounter in all its ambivalence and complexity inflected social relations throughout the empire, including at its heart, in Britain itself: Indian as well as other colonial travellers enacted the diversity of the empire on London's streets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElleke Boehmer, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford, and Professorial Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College. She has published \u003cem\u003eColonial and Postcolonial Literature\u003c\/em\u003e (1995, 2005), \u003cem\u003eEmpire, the National and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920\u003c\/em\u003e (2002), \u003cem\u003eStories of Women\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(2005), and the biography \u003cem\u003eNelson Mandela\u003c\/em\u003e (2008). She is the author of four acclaimed novels, as well as the short-story collection \u003cem\u003eSharmilla and Other Portraits\u003c\/em\u003e (2010). She edited Robert Baden-Powell's \u003cem\u003eScouting for Boys\u003c\/em\u003e (2004), and the anthology \u003cem\u003eEmpire Writing\u003c\/em\u003e (1998), and co-edited \u003cem\u003eJ.M. Coetzee in\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWriting and Theory\u003c\/em\u003e (2009), \u003cem\u003eTerror and the Postcolonial\u003c\/em\u003e (2009), \u003cem\u003eThe Indian Postcolonial\u003c\/em\u003e (2010), and \u003cem\u003eThe Postcolonial Low Countries\u003c\/em\u003e (2012). She is the General Editor of the Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures Series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 8.78 x 5.58 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 30, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463024656562,"sku":"9780192855671","price":47.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/c6c0d9eceb621bfa9512036f495a07e5.webp?v=1778981275","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/indian-arrivals-1870-1915-networks-of-british-empire-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}