Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World

Supriya Chaudhuri, Josephine McDonagh, Brian Murray, Rajeswari Rajan, Supriya Chaudhuri, Josephine McDonagh, Brian H. Murray, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781351620000
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Indian & South Asian History
• Index: History

Commodity, culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive. The desire for commodities drove colonial expansion at the same time that colonial expansion fuelled technological invention, created new markets for goods, displaced populations and transformed local and indigenous cultures in dramatic and often violent ways.

This book analyses the transformation of local cultures in the context of global interaction in the period 1851–1914. By focusing on episodes in the social and cultural lives of commodities, it explores some of the ways in which commodities shaped the colonial cultures of global modernity. Chapters by experts in the field examine the production, circulation, display and representation of commodities in various regional and national contexts, and draw on a range of theoretical and disciplinary approaches.

An integrated, coherent and urgent response to a number of key debates in postcolonial and Victorian studies, world literature and imperial history, this book will be of interest to researchers with interests in migration, commodity culture, colonial history and transnational networks of print and ideas.

Index

Note: Page numbers in bold type refer to figures

Page numbers in italic type refer to tables

Page numbers followed by ‘n’ refer to notes

Abdul Karim Khan 34, 40

Abdullah (Dulhe) Khan of Agra 36

Abha Collection 37

Absolon, J. 49

acculturation 174–175

adaptation 5–6, 146

Addis, T.W. 33, 41n28

Adsett, T. 140

advertising 3, 6, 60, 121

Africa 3, 7, 10, 26, 77, 166; exhibitions 59, 154–5; exploration 184–96; ivory trade 80–5; poetry 184–96

Agamben, G. 8, 92–95, 98n22…25

agriculture 7, 64, 65, 70, 97n9, 106, 116

agricultural implements 66; and science 8

Ailsa (coolie ship) 124

Akbar II (Moghul emperor 1806–37) 18–21, 29n13…17; elephant procession watercolour 18–19, 19; titular invocation 18; writing cabinet and brooch images 20–21, 21, 29n28

Akbar Khan (Mughal prince) 24

Akbar Shah (Mughal emperor 1556–1605) 15

Alexandria 49–50, 200

Algebra for Beginners (Hall) 181

Algebra (Hall and Knight) 178–180

Algiers 44, 50

Alladiya Khan 36–37

Allan, J. (coolie transporter) 117–118

Allen, C. 203

Alley, K. 88

America, see Canada, United States

American West 44; British growth 45

Amphion (Tennyson) 191

Amundsen, R. 188

Anand, M.R. 155

Ancient Law (Maine) 149–151

Anderson, B. 44

Angel, Capt W.H. 124–125, 128n52

Angenot, M. 109

Anglo‐Afghan War (1839) 23

Anglo‐American Expedition (1876) 184, 191–192, see also Stanley, H.M.

Anglo‐Sikh War (1845–6) 23

anthropocentrism 5, 90

anthropology 1, 5–6, 36, 59, 75, 99, 88, 104, 150–1

anthropomorphization 4

anti‐Enlightenment 9...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• List of contributors
• Introduction
• SECTION I: Making and showing
• SECTION II: Place and environment
• SECTION III: Labour and migration
• SECTION IV: Texts in motion
• Selected Bibliography
• Index