TY - BOOK ID - 7984017 TI - The other empire : metropolis, India, and progress in the colonial imagination AU - Marriott, John AU - Marriott, John, PY - 2003 SN - 0719080479 0719060184 9786610734054 1847790615 1781700346 1280734051 1423706331 9781526137838 9781423706335 9781847790613 9781280734052 6610734054 1526137836 9781781700341 9780719060182 1847795390 PB - Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, DB - UniCat KW - Social change -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century. KW - Urban poor -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century. KW - Urban poor -- India -- History -- 19th century. KW - Poor KW - Social change KW - Urban poor KW - Imperialism KW - Political Theory of the State KW - Social Welfare & Social Work - General KW - Political Science KW - Social Welfare & Social Work KW - Social Sciences KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - History KW - London (England) KW - India KW - In literature. KW - Civilization KW - Public opinion. KW - Change, Social KW - Cultural change KW - Cultural transformation KW - Societal change KW - Socio-cultural change KW - Indland KW - Ḣindiston Respublikasi KW - Republic of India KW - Bhārata KW - Indii︠a︡ KW - Inde KW - Indië KW - Indien KW - Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa KW - Yin-tu KW - Bharat KW - Government of India KW - Londen (England) KW - Londinium (England) KW - Londres (England) KW - Londýn (England) KW - Social history KW - Social evolution KW - City dwellers KW - インド KW - Indo KW - Social conditions. KW - india KW - empire KW - british KW - colonial KW - London KW - Humanities. KW - History. KW - Colonialism & Imperialism. KW - HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia. KW - Asian history KW - Colonialism & imperialism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7984017 AB - This is a detailed study of the various ways in which London and India were imaginatively constructed by British observers during the nineteenth century. This process took place within a unified field of knowledge that brought together travel and evangelical accounts to exert a formative influence on the creation of London and India for the domestic reading public. Their distinct narratives, rhetoric and chronologies forged homologies between representations of the metropolitan poor and colonial subjects—those constituencies that were seen as the most threatening to imperial progress. Thus the poor and particular sections of the Indian population were inscribed within discourses of western civilization as regressive and inferior peoples. Over time, these discourses increasingly promoted notions of overt and rigid racial hierarchies, the legacy of which remains to this day. ER -