{"product_id":"discoveries-explorations-and-the-imperial-pramod-k-nayar-9789354356582","title":"'Discoveries', Explorations and the Imperial Survey: From Discovery to the Civilizational Mission: English Writings on India, the Imperial Archive, Vo","description":"\u003cp\u003eIndia and the subcontinent stimulated the curiosity of the British who came to India as traders. Each aspect of life in India - its people, customs, geography, climate, fauna and flora - was documented by British travelers, traders, administrators, soldiers to make sense to the European mind. As they 'discovered' India and occupied it, they also attempted to 'civilise' the natives. \u003cbr\u003eThe present volumes focus on select aspects of the imperial archives: the accounts of \"discovery\" and exploration - fauna and flora, geography, climate - the people of the subcontinent, English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent, the wars and skirmishes - including the \"Mutiny\" of 1857-58 - and the \"civilisational mission\". \u003cbr\u003eVolume 1 '\u003ci\u003eDiscoveries', Explorations and the Imperial Survey\u003c\/i\u003e consists of documents that deal with England's discovery of India, its exploration and mapping of the subcontinent.\u003cbr\u003eThe texts collected here are accounts of how the British 'discovered' the subcontinent. The narrative of discovery, with the freshness of the 'new', was couched very often in the rhetoric of wonder. But this sense of wonder, even astonishment in some cases at the variety, magnitude and sheer difference of the land and its people, was tempered over time with a narrative of exploration. If the 'discovery' moment had a surprise, awe and a sense of uncertainty at facing something totally new-which, in many ways, the subcontinent was-in the early writings of the seventeenth century, the tone, emphasis and attitude shifts later on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pramod K. Nayar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9354356583\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789354356582\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.32w x 1.00d","brand":"Pramod K. Nayar","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43992763597055,"sku":"9789354356582","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_92ff3eda-9b99-4652-9f59-92873affa54e.jpg?v=1683320657","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/discoveries-explorations-and-the-imperial-pramod-k-nayar-9789354356582","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}