Perceptions of Empire Edinburgh’s Engagement with India
Resource type
Book
Creator (person)
Jeffery, Roger
Voigt, Friederike
Abstract
India has been noticeably absent in current literature about Edinburgh, yet the city’s historical relationship with South Asia has been long and deep. In this book, a companion to India in Edinburgh, the significance of this relationship is made clear through careful selections of writings by people linked to Edinburgh, and of Indians who have been influenced by their time in the city. Through lively extracts Perceptions of Empire: Edinburgh’s Engagement with India introduces readers to men and women, ardent imperialists and critics of the British Empire, Indian students at the University of Edinburgh alongside missionaries and tourists. The editors provide context for these extracts and show how an early appreciation of India’s civilisations in the eighteenth century gave way to hostility and arrogance in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Later writings, however, point towards more respect and equality. Perceptions of Empire will appeal to anyone with an interest in imperial and post-colonial history, decolonisation, cultural and intellectual history, and the social life of cities.
Publisher
Social Science Press
Rights statement
In Copyright