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This pioneering book explores how art shaped the nationalisation of the East India Company between the loss of its primary monopoly in 1813 and its ultimate liquidation in 1858. Challenging the idea that parliament drove political reform, it argues instead that the Company's political legitimacy was destabilised by novel modes of artistic production in colonial India. New artistic forms and practices-the result of new technologies like lithography and steam navigation, middle-class print formats like the periodical, the scrapbook and the literary annual, as well as the prevalence of amateur sketching among Company employees-reconfigured the colonial regime's racial boundaries and techniques of governance. They flourished within transimperial networks, integrating middle-class societies with new political convictions and moral disciplines, and thereby eroding the aristocratic corporate cultures that had previously structured colonial authority in India

Intro -- Title -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Guilt -- 2. 22,000 for eighteen cups of tea -- 3. Turning a blind eye -- 4. The punitive turn -- 5. Imposing rules -- 6. Changing conduct -- 7. A failed project -- 8. Changing direction -- Reading guides -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- Copyright.

"If you boil a kettle twice today, you will have used five times more electricity than a person in Mali uses in a whole year. How can that be possible? Decades after the colonial powers withdrew Africa is still struggling to catch up with the rest of the world. When the same colonists withdrew from Asia there followed several decades of sustained and unprecedented growth throughout the continent. So what went wrong in Africa? And are we helping to fix it, or simply making matters worse?"--Book jacket

Vast, diverse, dynamic, and turbulent, the true nature of Africa is often obscured by its poverty-stricken image. In this controversial guide, Tom Young cuts through the emotional hype to critically analyse the continent's political history and the factors behind its dismal economic performance. Maintaining that colonial influences are often overplayed, Young argues that much blame must lie with African governments themselves and that Western aid has often caused more harm than good.

AbstractI suggest that the recent furore over Gilley's article on colonialism raises at least three distinct issues both within academia and the wider space of public debate. The first concerns the category of 'offence', who can be offended and by what. The second concerns the nature of colonialism, its contemporary understanding and why that remains politically controversial. The third concerns possible continuities between certain aspects of colonial rule and current forms of Western intervention in Africa. In each case I make some very tentative suggestions as to why one journal article attracted so much attention and antagonism.

O autor deste artigo procede a urn exarne extremamente crítico de alguns dos Pressupostos teóricos, frequentement de natureza ideológica da discussão científica e política em tomo dos conceitos a "modemização", do "desenvolvimento" e da "democratização" em África. A sua conclusão é que a realidade africana só pode ser captada adequadamente por abordagens desembaraçadas de um conjunto de ideias feitas, e que só nesta base será possível conceber estratégias válidas. ; The author of this article proposes an extremely examination of some of the theoretical assumptions frequently ideological in nature, underlying the scientific and political discussion around the concepts of "modernization", "development", and "democratization". His conclusion is that African reatity can only be adequately understood by means of approaches freed from a number of current ideas, and that only on this basis will it be possible to define valid strategies. ; L'auteur de cet article procède à un examen extrêmement critique de certains sous-entendus théoriques, fréquemment de nature idéologique, de La discussion scientifique et politiques autour des concepts de "modemisation", "développement" et "démocratisation". Sa conclusion est que la réalité africaine ne peut être comprise de façon adéquate qu au moyen d'approches ribérées d'un ensemble d'idées courantes, et que la définition de stratégies valables n'est possible que sur cette base-là.