Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia

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Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia is written by Carey A. Watt and published by Anthem Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 085728830X (ISBN 10) and 9780857288301 (ISBN 13).

‘Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia’ offers a series of analyses that highlights the complexities of British and Indian civilizing missions in original ways and through various historiographical approaches. The book applies the concept of the civilizing mission to a number of issues in the colonial and postcolonial eras in South Asia: economic development, state-building, pacification, nationalism, cultural improvement, gender and generational relations, caste and untouchability, religion and missionaries, class relations, urbanization, NGOs, and civil society.