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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.

Social change -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century. --- Urban poor -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century. --- Urban poor -- India -- History -- 19th century. --- Poor --- Social change --- Urban poor --- Imperialism --- Political Theory of the State --- Social Welfare & Social Work - General --- Political Science --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Law, Politics & Government --- History --- London (England) --- India --- In literature. --- Civilization --- Public opinion. --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Indland --- Ḣindiston Respublikasi --- Republic of India --- Bhārata --- Indii︠a︡ --- Inde --- Indië --- Indien --- Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa --- Yin-tu --- Bharat --- Government of India --- Londen (England) --- Londinium (England) --- Londres (England) --- Londýn (England) --- Social history --- Social evolution --- City dwellers --- インド --- Indo --- Social conditions. --- india --- empire --- british --- colonial --- London --- Humanities. --- History. --- Colonialism & Imperialism. --- HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia. --- Asian history --- Colonialism & imperialism