Tag: Colonial

Free Download Guardians of the Valley: Chickasaws in Colonial South Carolina and Georgia
by Edward J. Cashin
English | 2023 | ASIN: B0BSVGNGMJ | 206 Pages | ePUB | 1.3 MB

Free Download Eric Cheyfitz, "The Colonial Construction of Indian Country"
English | ISBN: 1517911338 | 2023 | 250 pages | EPUB, PDF | 462 KB + 2 MB

Free Download Mohamed Kamara, "Colonial Legacies in Francophone African Literature: The School and the Invention of the Bourgeoisie"
English | ISBN: 1793644446 | 2023 | 258 pages | EPUB, PDF | 418 KB + 2 MB
Colonial Legacies in Francophone African Literature: The School and the Invention of the Bourgeoisie by Mohamed Kamara examines the representation and lasting impact of the colonial school and bourgeoisie in Francophone sub-Saharan literature. Mohamed Kamara contends that the so-called indigenous colonial bourgeoisie was invented by the colonizer through the school to perpetuate the ideology of the colonizer, and he interrogates the policies and practices of the school and the ways they were informed by discourses of racial difference. While many works, like those authored by Gadjigo and Alessandri, have interrogated the impact of the colonial school on the African individual and society, they do not focus on the relationship between colonial education and the emergence of the African bourgeois and bourgeoise. Accordingly, this book analyzes the various literary strategies used in selected texts to paint a portrait of the school and the class it produced in view of showing the organic relationship between the two. This book adds a fresh perspective on the intimate connection between the school and social transformation in Francophone sub-Saharan Africa. Kamara suggests that the best solution for the continent resides in the continent’s ability to take what is good in its precolonial past and combine it with what makes sense in today’s reality.

Free Download The Making of an Indian Metropolis: Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1890-1920 By Prashant Kidambi
2016 | 290 Pages | ISBN: 135188624X | PDF | 7 MB
This book explores the social history of colonial Bombay in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, a pivotal time in its emergence as a modern metropolis. Drawing together strands that hitherto have been treated in a piecemeal fashion and based on a variety of archival sources, the book offers a systematic analytical account of historical change in a premier colonial city. In particular, it considers the ways in which the turbulent changes unleashed by European modernity were negotiated, appropriated or resisted by the colonised in one of the major cities of the Indian Ocean region. A series of crises in the 1890s triggered far-reaching changes in the relationship between state and society in Bombay. The city’s colonial rulers responded to the upheavals of this decade by adopting a more interventionist approach to urban governance. The book shows how these new strategies and mechanisms of rule ensnared colonial authorities in contradictions that they were unable to resolve easily and rendered their relationship with local society increasingly fractious. The study also explores important developments within an emergent Indian civil society. It charts the density and diversity of the city’s expanding associational culture and shows how educated Indians embraced a new ethic of ‘social service’ that sought to ‘improve’ and ‘uplift’ the urban poor. In conclusion, the book reflects on the historical legacy of these developments for urban society and politics in postcolonial Bombay. This wide-ranging work will be essential reading for specialists in British imperial history, postcolonial studies and urban social history. It will also be of interest to all those concerned with the comparative history of governance and public culture in the modern city.

Free Download Raktima Bhuyan, "Print Modernity in Colonial Assam"
English | ISBN: 1666905410 | 2023 | 154 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 3 MB
Print Modernity in Colonial Assam considers the historical context of colonial Assam and traces literary trends which were subject to acknowledgment and evasion in the (over)emphasized periodicals and magazines of the time. Raktima Bhuyan and Sanjib Pol Deka argue for alternative literary trends and reading public in colonial Assam. The standardization of the Assamese language, along with the rise of the middle-class, engendered ‘purity’ of the language and experimentation with western mediums like the novel. This book places ‘pre-modern verse’ as an alternative literary practice equally embraced by the reading public during this period. At the threshold of Indian independence, issues like education as a blessing of colonial modernity needs to be subjected to discourses of morality and gender bias (and an attempt to prevent this) in the writings of the period, such as speeches, essays, and textbooks.

Free Download Victor Muchineripi Gwande, "Manufacturing in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1979: Interest Group Politics, Protectionism & the State"
English | ISBN: 1847013333 | 2022 | 252 pages | EPUB, PDF | 11 MB + 9 MB

Free Download Paul Carter, "Translations, an autoethnography: Migration, colonial Australia and the creative encounter "
English | ISBN: 1526158043 | 2021 | 336 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Translations is a personal history written at the intersection of colonial anthropology, creative practice and migrant ethnography. Renowned postcolonial scholar, public artist and radio maker, UK-born Paul Carter documents and discusses a prodigiously varied and original trajectory of writing, sound installation and public space dramaturgy produced in Australia to present the phenomenon of contemporary migration in an entirely new light.

Free Download Bekeh Utietiang Ukelina, "The Second Colonial Occupation: Development Planning, Agriculture, and the Legacies of British Rule in Nigeria"
English | ISBN: 1498529240 | 2017 | 238 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In this insightful book, development historian Bekeh Utietiang Ukelina addresses the crisis of development in Africa by locating it in its colonial historical past. Using Nigeria as a case study, he argues that the nature and practice of British colonialism in this colony created social and economic deficiencies that have left a legacy of underdevelopment.

Free Download Robert A. Yelle, "The Language of Disenchantment: Protestant Literalism and Colonial Discourse in British India "
English | ISBN: 0199925011 | 2012 | 320 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Language of Disenchantment explores the ways in which Protestant ideas concerning language influenced British colonial attitudes toward and proposals to reform Hinduism. Protestant literalism, mediated by the textual economy of the printed book, inspired colonial critiques of Indian mythological, ritual, linguistic, and legal traditions. Central to these developments was the transportation of the Christian opposition of monotheism and polytheism or idolatry into the domain of language. Polemics against verbal idolatry that had been applied previously to Catholic and sectarian practices in Britain -including the elevation of a scriptural canon over heathenish custom, the attack on the personifications of mythological language, and the critique of "vain repetitions" in prayers and magic spells-were applied by colonialists to Indian linguistic practices. In order to remedy these diseases of language, the British attempted to standardize and codify Indian traditions as a step toward both Anglicization and Christianization. The colonial understanding of a perfect language as the fulfillment of the monotheistic ideal echoed earlier Christian myths according to which the Gospel had replaced the obscure discourses of pagan oracles and Jewish ritual. By uncovering the historical roots of the British re-ordering of South Asian discourses, Yelle’s work challenges representations of colonialism, and the modernity that it ushered in, as simply rational or secular.

Free Download Robert A. Yelle, "The Language of Disenchantment: Protestant Literalism and Colonial Discourse in British India "
English | ISBN: 0199925011 | 2012 | 320 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Language of Disenchantment explores the ways in which Protestant ideas concerning language influenced British colonial attitudes toward and proposals to reform Hinduism. Protestant literalism, mediated by the textual economy of the printed book, inspired colonial critiques of Indian mythological, ritual, linguistic, and legal traditions. Central to these developments was the transportation of the Christian opposition of monotheism and polytheism or idolatry into the domain of language. Polemics against verbal idolatry that had been applied previously to Catholic and sectarian practices in Britain -including the elevation of a scriptural canon over heathenish custom, the attack on the personifications of mythological language, and the critique of "vain repetitions" in prayers and magic spells-were applied by colonialists to Indian linguistic practices. In order to remedy these diseases of language, the British attempted to standardize and codify Indian traditions as a step toward both Anglicization and Christianization. The colonial understanding of a perfect language as the fulfillment of the monotheistic ideal echoed earlier Christian myths according to which the Gospel had replaced the obscure discourses of pagan oracles and Jewish ritual. By uncovering the historical roots of the British re-ordering of South Asian discourses, Yelle’s work challenges representations of colonialism, and the modernity that it ushered in, as simply rational or secular.