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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 in society, Haynes emphasizes the importance of the unequal power relationship between the British and those Indians who struggled for political influence and justice within the colonial framework. A major contribution of the book is Haynes' analysis of the emergence and ultimate failure of Ghandian cultural meanings in Indian politics after 1923. The book addresses issues of importance to historians and anthropologists of India, to political scientists seeking to understand the origins of democracy in the "Third World," and general readers interested in comprehending processes of cultural change in colonial contexts.

Elite (Social sciences) --- Social Conditions --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- History. --- History --- Surat (India) --- Social conditions. --- Politics and government. --- Elites (Social sciences) --- Surat Municipal Corporation --- SMC --- Surat, India (City) --- Leadership --- Power (Social sciences) --- Social classes --- Social groups --- 19th century indian history. --- 20th century indian history. --- bombay and sind. --- bombay presidency. --- bombay province. --- bombay. --- british colonialism. --- british empire. --- british india. --- center of british power. --- class disparity. --- colonial india. --- colonialism. --- cultural studies. --- democracy. --- empire. --- english education. --- gandhi. --- india. --- indian culture. --- indian elites. --- indian history. --- indian politics. --- indian studies. --- political influence. --- public culture. --- radical transformation. --- social change. --- social justice. --- surat. --- unequal power. --- wealth disparity.