British Christians, Indian Nationalists and the Raj - Couverture rigide

Studdert-Kennedy, Gerald

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195627334 ISBN 13 : 9780195627336

Editeur : OUP India, 1991

Synopsis

This book examines the attitudes of British Christians towards India and its administration. Studdert-Kennedy effectively reveals just how central the British Christian's role was in shaping the terms of debate, whether it be the Government of India Act, the Simon Commission, or the Round Table Conferences.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

A valuable and interesting read ... Studdert-Kennedy has provided us with an informative and worthwhile text that may well help us to understand some of the tension that exists in modern India. (Contemporary South Asia)

Studdert-Kennedy's work, and this book in particular, fills a large gap in modern, scholarly literature concerned with the place of religion in the colonial administration in the early twentieth century. (Contemporary South Asia)

In this informative and dense book. Gerald Studdert-Kennedy explores the historical development of British Christianity in India between the two World Wars, although much of what he has to say is of extreme relevance to more recent events. (Contemporary South Asia)

In the context of the new orientations in imperial historiography ... [this book] is a very important landmark. I shall be surprised if this volume fails to get recognised as a classic. (Tapan Raychaudhuri, Reader in Modern South Asian History, University of Oxford)

The singular achievement of Gerald Studdert-Kennedy is to have established the link between Christianity and Empire, which the official ideology of colonial rule sought to play down from the Mutiny onwards, with arresting images and meticulous historical evidence. Warmly recommended. (Political Studies)

Dr Studdert-Kennedy has written an important book which fills admirably a serious gap in the scholarly literature. Many of the movements and people with whom he deals are now virtually forgotten, but in their day thay had an influence which was considerable and needs to be taken into account by the historian. Dr Studdert-Kennedy has given us a book which is not only definitive but eminently readable. (The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History)

Présentation de l'éditeur

The author reveals just how pervasive a Christian discourse was in shaping the terms of British Imperial rule, whether it be the Government of India Act, the Simon Commission, or the Round Table Conferences. Many Christians subscribed to a tradition of orientalism which saw British rule in India as evidence of the workings of divine providence. The author explores key aspects of church historiography, the activities of the Indian YMCA and the Quaker movement, and draws together these different strands in the wider context of Britain's governance over, and complex relationship with, India.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: OUP India
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195627334
• ISBN 13: 9780195627336
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 285
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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