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Useful Friendship : Europeans and Indians in Early Calcutta / Peter Robb.
Publisher: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2014Edition: First editionDescription: xii, 293 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780198099185
- 0198099185
- Europeans -- India -- Kolkata -- History -- 18th century
- Europeans -- India -- Kolkata -- History -- 19th century
- Kolkata (India) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
- Kolkata (India) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Kolkata (India) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 18th century
- Kolkata (India) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century
- 307.760954 ROB 23
- DS486.C2 R617 2014
Contents:
Description
Richard Blechynden, architect and surveyor, came to Calcutta as a 22 year old and remained in the city for the rest of his life. He left behind richly detailed, vivid tales about networks of European friendship that underwrote British life and work in Calcutta between 1791 and 1822. Based largely on Blechynden’s diaries, Robb’s third book on colonial Calcutta explores the important role played by friendship in managing credit and debt, town development, contracts, colonial law, and administration. While the first two volumes Sentiment and Self and Sex and Sensibility analyse the private worlds of servants, bibis, and children, this work moves towards the public domain. It argues that there were mutual failures of inclusion and understanding in European–Indian relations around 1800. It also explains why, even though many Europeans and Indians lived and worked closely together, Indians were not integrated into European interconnections of ‘useful friendship’. Thus, the book provides a pre-history of imperial rule and its justifications, and of racial distinctions and division.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-286) and index.
Description
Richard Blechynden, architect and surveyor, came to Calcutta as a 22 year old and remained in the city for the rest of his life. He left behind richly detailed, vivid tales about networks of European friendship that underwrote British life and work in Calcutta between 1791 and 1822. Based largely on Blechynden’s diaries, Robb’s third book on colonial Calcutta explores the important role played by friendship in managing credit and debt, town development, contracts, colonial law, and administration. While the first two volumes Sentiment and Self and Sex and Sensibility analyse the private worlds of servants, bibis, and children, this work moves towards the public domain. It argues that there were mutual failures of inclusion and understanding in European–Indian relations around 1800. It also explains why, even though many Europeans and Indians lived and worked closely together, Indians were not integrated into European interconnections of ‘useful friendship’. Thus, the book provides a pre-history of imperial rule and its justifications, and of racial distinctions and division.
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