HISA 3003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Noble Savage, Bhadralok, Civilizing Mission
6 Jul 2016
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Topics covered in the last lecture: four schools of thought of imperialism, role of trade in creating the empire, empire as an economic formation: global capital meets local capital, three schools of. How do you justify this theory: white man"s burden civilizing. This objecti cation is done through the arts, literature, and images. !1: orient as invention of the west; created as a place of romance, sexual repressed, exotic. Thursday, january 28, 2016 beings, haunting memories: examples of orientalism in popular culture. Colonialism of civilizing mission: the british merchants authored a new narrative of noble savage. , ideas of childlike indians, the british had to civilize them, colonialism became a civilizing project. Civilizing mission allowed rationalization of their imperialism. Transitioned their empire from empire of trade/economy to an empire of culture/settlement: after the battle of plassey wrote an extensive nature regarding the savage nature of indians.
