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9780198744184 English 0198744188 Elleke Boehmer blends the delicate insights of the literary critic with the art of the storyteller to investigate the arrivals of Indian writers, scholars and students in London in the late nineteenth century. Through a series of compelling readings of important figures, including Dutt, Naidu, Tagore and Sorabji, she reveals the minutiae of the educated colonial self-from its aspirations and paradoxes to the performance of its own orientalism-as it encounters and shapes the British cultural sphere. Written with a rare combination of subtlety, style and psychological nuance, Indian Arrivals 1870-1915 is as remarkable a work or literary and cultural history as it is a meditation on what it is to 'arrive'-in all senses of the word-in the strange familiarity of the imperial metropolis. Using diaries and poems as the mobile media of imperial connection, Elleke Boehmer reveals the 'cross-border poetics' char shaped British and Indian cultural movements alike in the decades before the Great Wax. Her emphasis on the interplay of communications and culture powerfully rethinks the locations of identity as it was imagined and performed between Bombay, Suez and London. In this luminous literary history of Indians' encounter with English metropolitan culture. Elleke Boehmer asks as to dwell in the poetics of arrival itself. In its symbolic structures she traces nor simply aesthetic forms or micro-dispositions of power but the very psychic life of the cross-border spaces that Indians in diaspore set into motion. It's this dynamic terrain which, she argues, configured English modernity-that inimitable mesh whose recesses the illuminates with authority and affinity. All those who seek to understand the work or India and Indians in the making of imperial Britain will have to reckon with this book. Book jacket., Indian Arrivals 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire examines how at the height of empire Britain was threaded through with Indian influences and ideas, in spite of colonial divisions. Throughout, the study is motivated by the notion that Indian travellers learned from the friendships they made in the west but also that they contributed to the development of a late Victorian cosmopolitanism of which they were an intrinsic part. Tracing the intricateencounters that took place between 'arriving' Indians and their British hosts, often through the medium of literature and journalism, the book paints a more textured picture than has been available to date ofcross-cultural contact between Indians and Britons and in so doing explores the myriad ways in which the centre of the nineteenth-century imperial world was criss-crossed by its margins, just as the margins were by the centre. Indian Arrivals offers a sustained reflection on what it is to arrive in another culture, in all senses of the word., Indian Arrivals 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire 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 modernity 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.
9780198744184 English 0198744188 Elleke Boehmer blends the delicate insights of the literary critic with the art of the storyteller to investigate the arrivals of Indian writers, scholars and students in London in the late nineteenth century. Through a series of compelling readings of important figures, including Dutt, Naidu, Tagore and Sorabji, she reveals the minutiae of the educated colonial self-from its aspirations and paradoxes to the performance of its own orientalism-as it encounters and shapes the British cultural sphere. Written with a rare combination of subtlety, style and psychological nuance, Indian Arrivals 1870-1915 is as remarkable a work or literary and cultural history as it is a meditation on what it is to 'arrive'-in all senses of the word-in the strange familiarity of the imperial metropolis. Using diaries and poems as the mobile media of imperial connection, Elleke Boehmer reveals the 'cross-border poetics' char shaped British and Indian cultural movements alike in the decades before the Great Wax. Her emphasis on the interplay of communications and culture powerfully rethinks the locations of identity as it was imagined and performed between Bombay, Suez and London. In this luminous literary history of Indians' encounter with English metropolitan culture. Elleke Boehmer asks as to dwell in the poetics of arrival itself. In its symbolic structures she traces nor simply aesthetic forms or micro-dispositions of power but the very psychic life of the cross-border spaces that Indians in diaspore set into motion. It's this dynamic terrain which, she argues, configured English modernity-that inimitable mesh whose recesses the illuminates with authority and affinity. All those who seek to understand the work or India and Indians in the making of imperial Britain will have to reckon with this book. Book jacket., Indian Arrivals 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire examines how at the height of empire Britain was threaded through with Indian influences and ideas, in spite of colonial divisions. Throughout, the study is motivated by the notion that Indian travellers learned from the friendships they made in the west but also that they contributed to the development of a late Victorian cosmopolitanism of which they were an intrinsic part. Tracing the intricateencounters that took place between 'arriving' Indians and their British hosts, often through the medium of literature and journalism, the book paints a more textured picture than has been available to date ofcross-cultural contact between Indians and Britons and in so doing explores the myriad ways in which the centre of the nineteenth-century imperial world was criss-crossed by its margins, just as the margins were by the centre. Indian Arrivals offers a sustained reflection on what it is to arrive in another culture, in all senses of the word., Indian Arrivals 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire 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 modernity 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.