Search Results - "colonial India"
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India and women's poetry of the 1830s: femininity and the picturesque in the poetry of Emma Roberts and Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Published 2005“…This analysis of women’s writing on colonial India studies their work against the accounts of the picturesque and its function in colonial writing on India established by Sara Suleri and Nigel Leask. …”
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Sedition Act 1948: a legal study on the relevancy of the act / Mohd Hafiz Ramlee and Muhammad Ihsan Norkhair
Published 2016“…Sedition Act 1948 was adopted by the British rulers from existing 19th Century legislation from colonial India into the then Malaya before independence. …”
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Geographies of Indian Dance: Mid-Twentieth Century Kathak on Stage and on Screen
Published 2021“…Embedded within the political context of late colonial India, kathak along with other cultural art forms (re)emerged in the twentieth century out of nationalist claims to sovereignty, having been supressed during British purifying and civilising campaigns. …”
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Stimulation, segregation and scandal: geographies of prostitution regulation in British India, between Registration (1888) and Suppression (1923)
Published 2012“…This paper explores the regulation of prostitution in colonial India between the abolition of the Indian Contagious Diseases Act in 1888 and the passing of the first Suppression of Immoral Traffic Act in 1923. …”
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"Unity in harmony": nationalism and national identity in the works of selected South and Southeast Asian writers
Published 2015“…The objective is to argue that although these writers wrote from different socio-political-cultural circumstances and historical periods, they all largely recommend a similar vision of nationalism and national identity for the society they represent/represented, whether it be colonial India or colonial/postcolonial Malaya/Malaysia. …”
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Towards serving the mankind: The role of the Ramakrishna mission and human development in India
Published 2014“…During the nineteenth century changes occurred in the socio-cultural sphere of colonial India. Challenges from Christianity and Brahmoism led the orthodox Hindus becoming defensive of their practices.Towards the end of the century the nationalist forces identified with traditional Hinduism.Sri Ramakrishna, a Bengali temple-priest propagated a new interpretation of the Hindu scriptures.Without formal education he could interpret the essence of the scriptures with an unprecedented simplicity.With a deep insight into the rapidly changing social scenario he realized the necessity of a humanist religious practice. …”
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