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Constructing India Flashcards

1
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How can monuments be seen as objects of power

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Striking features on the landscape
Showing of wealth and status
Very prominent
Hybrid, mix between british neoclassical and Hindu designs

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Who were these power plays intended for ?

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Inter british

British over natives

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3
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Robert travers argument quote

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“Monuments to the dead became important tools for projecting British power in India”

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4
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Who argues that memorials were more designed for grief ?

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Trev Lynn Broughton

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5
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What is David Arnold’s coined term for graveyards

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Deathscapes

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6
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What is the Bengal obituary ?

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A record made by John Hawksworth of transcriptions from tombs graves and monuments. Approximately 51000

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When was the Bengal obituary published

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1848

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Who believed that memorials were actually told of imperial power?

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Robert Travers

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9
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Bengal obituary quote

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‘Against the discourse of neglect’

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10
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Death in India

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Growing concern, very frequent occounance
Malaria
Dysentery
Death portrayed as ugly, sudden, premature and lonely

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Who argues that travel writing and travel books were mostly responsible for making Europeans at home feel like they were actually part of empire ?

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Mary Louise Pratt

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12
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What is Mary Louise parts most well known term

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Contact zones, (where different cultures meet and grapple with each other)

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Travel book quote Pratt

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“They made people at home feel part of a planetary project”

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14
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What is one on the problems with travel writing ?

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It produces and asymmetrical representation

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15
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David Arnold’s main landcscape argument

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How British and other eu nations conceptualised India, that we constructed its ideas of landscape and nature

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What is the travelling gaze

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Focouldian concept . In that through being able to look at and survey something it gives the surveyor power over the subject

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17
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In what ways was the Indian landscape constructed

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Against the tropics
Against home
Travel narratives and literary representations

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How was military engagement in India important to travel writing

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Solders had freedom to adventure
Moved around a lot
Military reports on topography, geography resources ect.of areas
Safer to travel
Those attached to military personnel travelled with them
Military also bought learned men with them

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19
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When was travel writing in vogue

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1820-40 saw the publication of thousands of books

20
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David Arnold imposition of landscape quote

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“India was annexed to ideas of landscape and nature that were external and alien to itself”

21
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What is swati chattopadhay’s main argument

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That there was not separation between black and white town Calcutta, the boundaries are more blurred than they initially seem

22
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Architectural division

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How's us look neoclassical, resemble country homes back in England, however actually built quite diffrently 
Windows bigger 
Rooms joined together 
Doors always open
No seperate servants quarters
23
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Swati chattopadhay quote about City

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“Wherever we look the city was heterogenous”

24
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When was government house built

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Government house was built in 1799, like many neoclassical houses that were built after the battle of plassey

25
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P.J.Marshall argument

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That there was blurring although contemopries tries to show that there was not . Also many more natives in Calcutta than British and more males than females

26
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Things that suggest that there was a whit town

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Contemporary maps, british pursuits eg. Cricket club, theatres, cemetery’s

27
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What is a chappor ?

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Thatched huts constructed by Indian servants against masters house in which they were to live

28
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David Arnold in deathscapes

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Death in India was seen as violent ad lonely
Notion of Death and deathscapes increased with travel writing
Provided britian with a self legitimising mission to protect empire and fix it

29
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Who argued that travel writing worked through the ‘discourse of difficulty’

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Pramod K. Nayar

30
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What does the discourse of difficulty constitute ?

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Intensification and demystification

31
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What is intensification

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Descriptions of India being in excess and incomparable to britian .. However this soon flips to the realisation of indias backwardness
India becomes a place of darkness

32
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What does demystification mean ?

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The process of english men overcoming the process of India

33
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Contemporary Death quote

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“Here people die one day, are buried the next, their possessions are sold on the third and on the fourth they are forgotten”

34
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Marshal death rate statistic

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Between 1705 & 1775 368 EIC officials died in India 57%

This would gave been higher amongst sailors the young and private traders

35
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When was the battle of plassey

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1757

36
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What happened in 1756

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British Calcutta was sacked by nawab if Bengal

37
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In which year did Calcutta become the administration centre ?

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1772

38
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When was the treaty if allahabad?

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1765

39
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Why did British travel increase during the 19c.

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Increases British control
Mobile safety
New roads and bridges
Steamboats on Gange and Indus

40
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When did the Suez Canal open ?

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1869

41
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Who wrote and published ‘up the country’

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Emily Eden

42
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Who painted ‘hindoo temple at sera pore’ in dec 1825

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Sarah Elizabeth Amherst

43
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Example of monument for grief

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Charlotte Elizabeth reed .. Also one of few times native in mentioned in the Bengal obituary Bebee jan

44
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Memorial of power

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Black hole of Calcutta

Leuitennant colonel James walker

45
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Which was the british military cemetery that allowed for natives who served to be buried there

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Old Jalna Cemetry

46
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Main constructing India historians

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J.p.marshal
Swati catthpadhay 
David Arnold 
Mary Pratt 
Robert travers
Trev lyn broughton

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