Rhetoric and Ritual in Colonial India

by Douglas E. Haynes

This book explores the rhetoric and ritual of Indian elites undercolonialism, focusing on the city of Surat in the Bombay Presidency. It particularly examines how local elites appropriated and modified the liberal representative discourse of Britain and thus fashioned a "public' culture that excluded the city's underclasses. Departing from traditional explanations that have seen this process as resulting from English education or radical transformations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520067258
• ISBN13: 9780520067257
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.0"