Civil modernity: The management of manners and polite imperial relations in India, 1880—1930

dc.contributor.author Nayar, Pramod K.
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-27T01:51:31Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-27T01:51:31Z
dc.date.issued 2016-10-01
dc.description.abstract This essay argues that etiquette books produced during the period 1880-1930 sought to contain the increasingly Westernised and cosmopolitan colonial subject by creating a regime of respectability and civility. These books formulated norms of social interaction, imparting advice on rational, hierarchic behaviour and cultural literacy. This discourse of civility was a mode of ameliorating the threat of the hybridised colonial subject by framing his cultural and social interactions within very particular modes of conduct while retaining the hierarchies necessary for imperial dominance.
dc.identifier.citation South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies. v.39(4)
dc.identifier.issn 00856401
dc.identifier.uri 10.1080/00856401.2016.1204513
dc.identifier.uri https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00856401.2016.1204513
dc.identifier.uri https://dspace.uohyd.ac.in/handle/1/4227
dc.subject British India
dc.subject Civility
dc.subject Cultural literacy
dc.subject Etiquette books
dc.subject Hierarchy
dc.subject Rationality
dc.title Civil modernity: The management of manners and polite imperial relations in India, 1880—1930
dc.type Journal. Article
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