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Nabobs: Defining the Indian empire and the British nation in the late eighteenth century.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Nabobs: Defining the Indian empire and the British nation in the late eighteenth century./
Author:	Nechtman, Tillman W.
Description:	430 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: A, page: 2353.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-06A.
Subject:	European history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3180309
ISBN:	9780542203664

Nabobs: Defining the Indian empire and the British nation in the late eighteenth century.
Nechtman, Tillman W.

Nabobs: Defining the Indian empire and the British nation in the late eighteenth century. - 430 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: A, page: 2353.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2005.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation is a study of the relationship between the British nation and the British empire in South Asia in the eighteenth century. It details a moment when the British nation and the British empire co-existed, and indeed evolved, side-by-side, each dependent upon the other. Specifically, it investigates the "Nabob Controversy" in order to explore the mutually constitutive interactions between Britain and South Asia in this period. The study focuses on the figure of the East India Company (EIC) employee as the human frontier between empire and nation, a figure who moved fluidly between the two spaces. Labeled "nabobs," a corruption of the Mughal title nawab, by their contemporaries, EIC employees represented an imperial vanguard; they, more than any other group, witnessed South Asia in the last half of the eighteenth century and "conjured" it into being for domestic audiences through their letters, tales, drawings, and diary accounts. EIC employees imagined India for domestic British audiences in the eighteenth century, and, upon their retirement, they frequently imported concrete artifacts such as clothing, wealth, jewelry, and animals---not to mention such abstract cultural forms as new aesthetic sensibilities and new-found fluency in "exotic" languages, intellectual traditions, and religious beliefs.

ISBN: 9780542203664Subjects--Topical Terms:

1972904
European history.

Nabobs: Defining the Indian empire and the British nation in the late eighteenth century.
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