India and imperial vulnerability: Knowledge, aesthetics and subjects in British discourses of disaster,...

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Pramod K Nayar

India and imperial vulnerability

Name: India and imperial vulnerability
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Knowledge, aesthetics and subjects in British discourses of disaster, 1763-1939

Pramod K Nayar

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English

Manchester University Press
01 June 2026

Semantics; Colonialism & imperialism; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Aid & relief programmes; Natural disasters

Series: Studies in Imperialism

This study of famines, earthquakes and cyclones in British India, 1770-1934, moves from the aesthetics of representation through the knowledge cultures that sprang up around the disasters and finally the construction of the helpless native and the labouring Englishman. It studies the creation of imperial networks of knowledge acquisition, codification and training, as well as the employment of certain aesthetic modes when speaking of the land's disasters. It pays attention to the categorization of the disaster victims and the work of the Englishman in understanding and helping the native. The study shows how the disasters were shaped and were shaped by imperial discourses of knowledge and learning, aesthetics of fright and horror and the labouring English.

By: Pramod K Nayar
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 504g
ISBN: 9781526178114
ISBN 10: 1526178117
Series: Studies in Imperialism
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 01 June 2026
Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Introduction: Writing disaster in colonial India Part I: Disaster Knowledge Cultures 1 The Making of climatological risk 2 Disaster textual production Part II: Disaster Aesthetics 3 Unscenic nature 4 Ruined matter Part III: Disaster Subjects 5 Disaster subjects 6 Palliative imperial labour Conclusion -- .

Pramod K. Nayar is Senior Professor of English and holder of the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies at the University of Hyderabad, India.