Constructing India Flashcards
(46 cards)
How can monuments be seen as objects of power
Striking features on the landscape
Showing of wealth and status
Very prominent
Hybrid, mix between british neoclassical and Hindu designs
Who were these power plays intended for ?
Inter british
British over natives
Robert travers argument quote
“Monuments to the dead became important tools for projecting British power in India”
Who argues that memorials were more designed for grief ?
Trev Lynn Broughton
What is David Arnold’s coined term for graveyards
Deathscapes
What is the Bengal obituary ?
A record made by John Hawksworth of transcriptions from tombs graves and monuments. Approximately 51000
When was the Bengal obituary published
1848
Who believed that memorials were actually told of imperial power?
Robert Travers
Bengal obituary quote
‘Against the discourse of neglect’
Death in India
Growing concern, very frequent occounance
Malaria
Dysentery
Death portrayed as ugly, sudden, premature and lonely
Who argues that travel writing and travel books were mostly responsible for making Europeans at home feel like they were actually part of empire ?
Mary Louise Pratt
What is Mary Louise parts most well known term
Contact zones, (where different cultures meet and grapple with each other)
Travel book quote Pratt
“They made people at home feel part of a planetary project”
What is one on the problems with travel writing ?
It produces and asymmetrical representation
David Arnold’s main landcscape argument
How British and other eu nations conceptualised India, that we constructed its ideas of landscape and nature
What is the travelling gaze
Focouldian concept . In that through being able to look at and survey something it gives the surveyor power over the subject
In what ways was the Indian landscape constructed
Against the tropics
Against home
Travel narratives and literary representations
How was military engagement in India important to travel writing
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
When was travel writing in vogue
1820-40 saw the publication of thousands of books
David Arnold imposition of landscape quote
“India was annexed to ideas of landscape and nature that were external and alien to itself”
What is swati chattopadhay’s main argument
That there was not separation between black and white town Calcutta, the boundaries are more blurred than they initially seem
Architectural division
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
Swati chattopadhay quote about City
“Wherever we look the city was heterogenous”
When was government house built
Government house was built in 1799, like many neoclassical houses that were built after the battle of plassey
