Memory, Identity and the Colonial Encounter in India: Essays in Honour of Peter Robb

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Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1 Memory and identity
	I Colonial memory
		1 Memory, place and British memorials in early Calcutta: transcript of a lecture by Peter Robb
	II Colonial identities
		2 On the political history of Britishness in India: Lord Cornwallis and the early demise of Creole India
		3 Religion and race: Eurasians in colonial India
	III Textual representations of memory and identity
		4 Texts of liminality: reading identity in Dalit autobiographies from Bengal
		5 Paradoxes of victimhood: Dalit women’s bodies as polluted and suffering in colonial North India
	IV Sites of memory and identity formation
		6 Sites of memory and structures of power in North India: Anandamath and Hanumangarhi
		7 Dispossessing memory: Adivasi oral histories from the margins of Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve, Central India
Part 2 Colonial encounters
	I Encounters with regional governance
		8 Heroinism and its weapons: women power brokers in early modern Bhopal
		9 Changing horses: the administration of Sikkim, 1888–1918
	II Encounters with surveillance and resistance
		10 Lost in transit? Railway crimes and the regime of control in colonial India
		11 From London to Calcutta: the ‘Bolshevik’ outsider and imperial surveillance, 1917–1921
	III Encounters and \'improvement\'
		12 Competition or collaboration? Importers of salt, the East India Company, and the salt market in Eastern India, c. 1780–1836
		13 Challenging the 3Rs: kindergarten experiments in colonial Madras
		14 Scientific knowledge and practices of green manuring in Bengal Presidency, 1905–1925
Appendix: Major publications and supervised theses by Peter Robb
Index