The Merchant of Stories by Dipa Sanatani

This book sheds new light on the dynamics of the colonial encounter between Britain and India. Memory, Identity and the Colonial Encounter in India

1780–1836ġ3 Challenging the 3Rs: kindergarten experiments in colonial Madrasġ4 Scientific knowledge and practices of green manuring in Bengal Presidency, 1905–1925Īppendix: Major publications and supervised theses by Peter Robb II Encounters with surveillance and resistanceġ0 Lost in transit? Railway crimes and the regime of control in colonial Indiaġ1 From London to Calcutta: the ‘Bolshevik’ outsider and imperial surveillance, 1917–1921ġ2 Competition or collaboration? Importers of salt, the East India Company, and the salt market in Eastern India, c. IV Sites of memory and identity formationĦ Sites of memory and structures of power in North India: Anandamath and Hanumangarhiħ Dispossessing memory: Adivasi oral histories from the margins of Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve, Central IndiaĨ Heroinism and its weapons: women power brokers in early modern Bhopalĩ Changing horses: the administration of Sikkim, 1888–1918 III Textual representations of memory and identityĤ Texts of liminality: reading identity in Dalit autobiographies from Bengalĥ Paradoxes of victimhood: Dalit women’s bodies as polluted and suffering in colonial North India 1 Memory, place and British memorials in early Calcutta: transcript of a lecture by Peter RobbĢ On the political history of Britishness in India: Lord Cornwallis and the early demise of Creole Indiaģ Religion and race: Eurasians in colonial India

The Merchant of Stories by Dipa Sanatani