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ISBN 10: 8178240777 

ISBN 13: 9788178240770

Author:  Michael H. Fisher 

Indians have been visiting or settling in England since the early 1600s. Forming ‘counterflows’ to colonialism, Indians entered Britain, lived among Britons, and produced knowledge which compelled British responses. By the mid-nineteenth century several thousand Indian seamen, servants, scholars, soldiers, women and children, students, diplomats, royalty, merchants, tourists, and settlers were participating in varying ways within British society, depending on their gender, social origin, and personal circumstances. In multifarious and contested ways, their self-representations and activities influenced British attitudes and policies towards them as individuals and towards India generally. Some settled, but most returned to India after months or years living in Britain. Most also sent or brought back to India direct information about Britain which disseminated in complex ways within Indian society.

The context for these interactions and representations was colonialism and its processes, which powerfully altered what being ‘Indian’ meant, both culturally and legally. This book surveys and analyses the range of Indians that ventured to Britain over 250 years, their reasons for travel, their diverse lived experiences, and their contrasting representations of colonizer, colonized, and colonial rule. Written in lucid and jargon-free prose, this volume will enthral general readers as well as historians. Its strong interest in narrative and the telling anecdote, in individual personalities and peculiar lives, makes this book unusually appealing as much for its incredible wealth of new data and fresh arguments, as for its accessibility.

Table of contents:

Part I: Pre-Colonial and Early Colonial Relations, 1600s–1790s

1. Early Interactions: Indians, Britons, and the Company
2. Indians in Britain as British Colonial Conquests Begin

Part II: Setting the Patterns, 1790s–1830s
3. Indian Scholars and Teachers during Early Colonialism
4. Indian Seamen and the Company
5. Crossing Identity Boundaries
6. Indian Servants and Slaves in Early Colonial Britain

Part III: Indian Communities Develop in Britain, 1830s–1857
7. Indian Delegations Entering London
8. Britain as Site of Pleasure and Advancement
9. Seeking Honours, Knowledge, Profit, and Justice
10. Indian Communities in Britain during the Decades to 1857

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