Contesting Colonial Hegemony
State and Society in Africa and India
Will be published approx. on 31. December 2000
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-85043-733-8 (ISBN)
Description
Antonio Gramsci's writings on hegemony were rediscovered by the English-speaking world in the 1970s, and his theories on the nature of state power and popular compliance subsequently became part of a growing literature. Until now, however, there has been no real attempt to apply Gramscian notions of hegemony to specific societies. This book, with its contributions by distunguished scholars from Europe, the USA and India explores the strengths and limitations of applying Gramsci's theories to the colonial state as well as addressing the relationship of coercion and consent in the imperial control of India and Africa.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
notes, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85043-733-8 (9781850437338)
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Content
Introduction - hegemony in a colonial context, Dagmar Engels and Shula Marks. Part 1 State and society: on the construction of colonial power - structure, discourse, hegemony, Sudipta Kaviraj; the organization of "consent" in British West Africa, 1820s to 1960s, William Gervase Clarence-Smith; was there a hegemonic project of the colonial state?, Partha Chatterjee. Part 2 Western education: mode of knowledge, modes of power - universities in 19th-century India, Dagmar Engels; at home with hegemony? coercion and consent in the education of African girls for domesticity in South Africa before 1910, Deborah Gaitskell. Part 3 Public health: public health and public power - medicine and hegemony in colonial India, David Arnold; managing midwifery in India, Geraldine Forbes; health and hegemony - representation of disease and the creation of the colonial subject in Nyasaland, Megan Vaughan; the power to heal - African auxiliaries in colonial Belgian Congo and Uganda, Maryinez Lyons. Part 4 Policing and the law: law, lawyers and politics in Ghana in the 1940s, Richard Rathbone; policing the settler state - colonial hegemony in Kenya, 1900-1952. Part 5 Relections on hegemony in India and Africa: dominance, hegemony and the colonial state - the Indian and African experiences, Tapan Raychaudhuri; hegemony and historical practice, Sumit Sarkar.