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  • 3 - The Theater of Imperial Sovereignty

  • Humberto Garcia
  • Book:
    England Re-Oriented
    Published online:
    06 November 2020
    Print publication:
    19 November 2020, pp 78-122

  • Summary

    Chapter Three argues that the Mughal emissary I’tesamuddin adopts contradictory personas in London parks, theaters, and ballrooms. His Persian travelogue, Shigarf-nāma i Wilāyat [The Wonder-book of the Province/England], narrates his 1767–1769 diplomatic mission to deliver Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II’s letter requesting military assistance from King George III, circumventing the Company’s authority. Because this mission failed after Robert Clive withheld the letter, the Mirza instead writes about London’s theatrical and touristic attractions, including Shakespeare’s King Lear, John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera, and a pantomime farce.Enthralled by these shows, he morphs into a black-masked Harlequin in sexual pursuit of white fairy-like Englishwomen – the repertoire by which he judges off-stage Britons as deluded by worldly gain, figured as a Protestant work ethic that values efficient labor and capital accumulation. By the end of his narrative, his identity shifts from an admirer of an Islamized Anglican state to an ascetic Muslim who prefers elite Mughal society and its veiled light brown women.

  • Bibliographical essay

  • C. A. Bayly, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    31 March 1988, pp 212-223

  • Summary

    This bibliography presents a list of titles that help the reader to understand the role of Indians in the politics and economics of early colonialism. The early history of European expansion in maritime India is one of the best covered areas of Indian history. Treatments of British expansion have concentrated on the commercial, particularly private commercial motivations and on the period of Robert Clive and Warren Hastings. A modern treatment of the Cornwallis and Wellesley period is still lacking, and there is little which discusses analytically the structure of the Company state or its ruling ideologies. The British revenue systems have generated an enormous and largely indigestible literature. Works on change in religion and mentalities are heavily concentrated on issues connected with the 'Bengal renaissance. There have been several attempts at overviews of Indian resistance in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.