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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
November 2020
Print publication year:
2020
Online ISBN:
9781108862486
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108862486
Subjects:
Area Studies, South Asian History, British History after 1450, Asian Studies, History, Regional History after 1500
Series:
Critical Perspectives on Empire
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Book description

What does the love between British imperialists and their Asian male partners reveal about orientalism's social origins? To answer this question, Humberto Garcia focuses on westward-bound Central and South Asian travel writers who have long been forgotten or  dismissed by scholars. This bias has obscured how Joseph Emin, Sake Dean Mahomet, Shaykh I'tesamuddin, Abu Talib Khan, Abul Hassan Khan, Yusuf Khan Kambalposh, and Lutfullah Khan found in their conviviality with Englishwomen and men a strategy for inhabiting a critical agency that appropriated various media to make Europe commensurate with Asia. Drama, dance, masquerades, visual art, museum exhibits, music, postal letters, and newsprint inspired these genteel men to recalibrate Persianate ways of behaving and knowing. Their cosmopolitanisms offer a unique window on an enchanted third space between empires in which Europe was peripheral to Islamic Indo-Eurasia. Encrypted in their mediated homosocial intimacies is a queer history of orientalist mimic men under the spell of a powerful Persian manhood.

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‘England Re-Oriented breaks new ground on dozens of Persian, South Asian, and near Eastern trans-imperial performances that render the European non-hegemonic. In turning from the givens of orientalism to a history of orienting to the other, Garcia gives us politically urgent and deeply learned game-changer.'

Misty G. Anderson - University of Tennessee

‘Garcia’s richly rewarding book charts a ‘new imperial history,’ artfully theorizing and meticulously detailing British discovery of foreignness within themselves. Problematizing the relationships between empire and gender, he displays Persianate masculinity transferring from Indo-Persian rulers to Company men. At once deeply scholarly and thoroughly readable, this monograph will encourage vigorous debate and stimulate important research.'

Michael J. Franklin - Swansea University

‘Tracking the experiences of seven remarkable Islamicate travelers in Georgian and Victorian Britain, Garcia devises new strategies for analyzing intercultural performance, hybrid textuality, colonial masculinity, and imperial display that will set a new bar for archival subtlety and theoretical acumen among scholars of global cultural and social exchange.'

Daniel O'Quinn - University of Guelph

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