The other empire: metropolis, India and progress in the colonial imagination
In: Studies in imperialism
Introduction: metropolis and India --The antinomies of progress --Poverty and progress --Slavery and progress --Colonialism and progress --Progress and the human order --Progress and its antitheses --Desarts of Africa or Arabia --The needy villains' gen'ral home --Tricks of the town --The vast torrent of luxury --India in European cosmography --Forraigne sects --The intimate connexion --Discovery of the metropolitan residuum --Gothic heaps of stone --Late eighteenth-century travel in India --Early evangelical activity --The conversion of heathens --A complete cyclopaedia --Unknown London --Metropolitan evangelicalism --Racialization of the poor --Wandering tribes --Mayhew's legacy --So immense an empire --A new mode of observation --The privilege of the traveller --Racialization of India --Castes of robbers and thieves --In darkest England --The meaning of dirt --Degeneration and desire --Crowds bred in the abyss --Problems of the race --The great museum of races --Urban mythology --Nascent ethnology --1857 and its aftermath --Discovery of caste --Race and progress.