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> Paul S. Ropp. China in World History. Oxford Oxford University
> Press, 2010. xvi + 184 pp. $74.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-517073-3;
> $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-538195-5.
>
> Reviewed by David Buck (University of Wisconsin=Milwaukee)
> Published on H-Asia ( January , 2011)
> Commissioned by Sumit Guha
>
> Fitting China into World History
>
> Oxford University Press has embarked on a major effort to produce
> works suited for world history classes. They have in print a dozen
> titles, with others in preparation, in The New Oxford World History
> series edited by Bonnie G. Smith and Anand Yang. Paul S. Ropp's
> volume on China joins a group within this series that uses world
> regions as the main topic. Craig Lockard's _Southeast Asia in World
> History_ (2009) is another example of this approach. Other studies
> use a period of history, such as John E. Wills Jr.'s _The World from
> 1450 to 1700_ (2009), or examine a general topic in detail, such as
> Daniel Headrick's _Technology in World History_ (2009). The volumes,
> published both in hardcover and paperback, are aimed primarily at the
> textbook market, but also can serve as brief introductions to an
> area, a time period, or a general theme. Each runs about two hundred
> pages including ancillary material, such as timelines, notes, black
> and white illustrations, maps, suggested further reading, and an
> index.
>
> Ropp's contribution is gracefully written, fast paced, and organized
> around the standard periodization of Chinese history, into periods of
> unity and division with unity being the dominant pattern. He selects
> four distinctive characteristics for Chinese history: intensive
> agriculture, which he sees as providing "a strong impetus for
> population growth" (p. xiv); state organization of large-scale
> projects, including irrigation, walls, and canals; emphasis on
> extended family relations and ancestor worship; and finally, an
> optimistic and humanistic view of the world. Although Ropp discusses
> in detail the different dynasties, he does not emphasize the dynastic
> cycle of a strong founder followed by able early rulers, and leading
> to a plateau of moderate and less capable emperors, sometimes
> interrupted by a short revival, but inevitably leading to dynastic
> collapse.
>
> A recurring problem with general textbooks on Chinese history is the
> "one dammed dynasty after another" fatigue that students and readers
> experience. Ropp, a Distinguished Professor of History at Clark
> University, has worked hard to avoid that pitfall by emphasizing
> international influences, especially from the nomadic peoples to
> China's north and west, and detailing distinctive characteristics of
> particular periods, such as the Ming (1368-1644) creativity in
> porcelain and the early fifteenth-century great naval armadas. Ropp
> builds on key features of each era or dynasty, and, as a result,
> students should have less trouble differentiating the Tang, the Song,
> and other dynasties. Downplaying the dynastic cycle also helps in
> this effort.
>
> Ropp devotes two-thirds of the text to Chinese history before 1800.
> His chapters on the period of disunion (220-589) and the Sui and Tang
> (618-907) are particularly strong. Wisely for an introductory
> history, Ropp gives colorful descriptions of key rulers. He also
> introduces material that shows a clear pattern of evolution by
> discussing technological advances, changes in agriculture and trade,
> and growth of population and appearance of larger cities. His twenty
> pages on the People's Republic of China is an excellent summary. This
> and other chapters are well suited to an evening's assigned reading
> for beginning students.
>
> Although Ropp's title indicates that he is placing China in the
> context of world history, he stays away from some of the most
> provocative scholarship linking Chinese and world history. For
> example, he does not introduce Andre Gunner Frank's thesis that
> China's insatiable demand for New World silver bolstered the European
> economy from the sixteenth century onward (_ReORIENT: Global Economy
> in the Asia Age _[1998]), or Timothy Brook's marvelous _Vermeer's
> Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
> _(2008), which shows how trade in Chinese objects shaped European
> taste and daily life.
>
> There now are a good many choices of introductory books on Chinese
> history. Patricia Ebrey's _Cambridge Illustrated History of China
> _(2nd edition, 2010) is twice the length and beautifully illustrated,
> while well-established texts, such as Conrad Shirokauer's _A Brief
> History of Chinese Civilization_ (2nd edition, 2006), remain
> serviceable, but Ropp's is particularly well written and presented.
> It should have a long life as a classroom text and also can be
> recommended as a good short introduction to Chinese history for the
> general reader.
>
> Citation: David Buck. Review of Ropp, Paul S., _China in World
> History_. H-Asia, H-Net Reviews. January , 2011.
> URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=32184
>
> This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
> Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States
> License.
>
>
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Fw: REVIEW Buck on Ropp _China in World History_

----- Original Message -----
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> Paul S. Ropp. China in World History. Oxford Oxford University
> Press, 2010. xvi + 184 pp. $74.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-517073-3;
> $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-538195-5.
>
> Reviewed by David Buck (University of Wisconsin=Milwaukee)
> Published on H-Asia ( January , 2011)
> Commissioned by Sumit Guha
>
> Fitting China into World History
>
> Oxford University Press has embarked on a major effort to produce
> works suited for world history classes. They have in print a dozen
> titles, with others in preparation, in The New Oxford World History
> series edited by Bonnie G. Smith and Anand Yang. Paul S. Ropp's
> volume on China joins a group within this series that uses world
> regions as the main topic. Craig Lockard's _Southeast Asia in World
> History_ (2009) is another example of this approach. Other studies
> use a period of history, such as John E. Wills Jr.'s _The World from
> 1450 to 1700_ (2009), or examine a general topic in detail, such as
> Daniel Headrick's _Technology in World History_ (2009). The volumes,
> published both in hardcover and paperback, are aimed primarily at the
> textbook market, but also can serve as brief introductions to an
> area, a time period, or a general theme. Each runs about two hundred
> pages including ancillary material, such as timelines, notes, black
> and white illustrations, maps, suggested further reading, and an
> index.
>
> Ropp's contribution is gracefully written, fast paced, and organized
> around the standard periodization of Chinese history, into periods of
> unity and division with unity being the dominant pattern. He selects
> four distinctive characteristics for Chinese history: intensive
> agriculture, which he sees as providing "a strong impetus for
> population growth" (p. xiv); state organization of large-scale
> projects, including irrigation, walls, and canals; emphasis on
> extended family relations and ancestor worship; and finally, an
> optimistic and humanistic view of the world. Although Ropp discusses
> in detail the different dynasties, he does not emphasize the dynastic
> cycle of a strong founder followed by able early rulers, and leading
> to a plateau of moderate and less capable emperors, sometimes
> interrupted by a short revival, but inevitably leading to dynastic
> collapse.
>
> A recurring problem with general textbooks on Chinese history is the
> "one dammed dynasty after another" fatigue that students and readers
> experience. Ropp, a Distinguished Professor of History at Clark
> University, has worked hard to avoid that pitfall by emphasizing
> international influences, especially from the nomadic peoples to
> China's north and west, and detailing distinctive characteristics of
> particular periods, such as the Ming (1368-1644) creativity in
> porcelain and the early fifteenth-century great naval armadas. Ropp
> builds on key features of each era or dynasty, and, as a result,
> students should have less trouble differentiating the Tang, the Song,
> and other dynasties. Downplaying the dynastic cycle also helps in
> this effort.
>
> Ropp devotes two-thirds of the text to Chinese history before 1800.
> His chapters on the period of disunion (220-589) and the Sui and Tang
> (618-907) are particularly strong. Wisely for an introductory
> history, Ropp gives colorful descriptions of key rulers. He also
> introduces material that shows a clear pattern of evolution by
> discussing technological advances, changes in agriculture and trade,
> and growth of population and appearance of larger cities. His twenty
> pages on the People's Republic of China is an excellent summary. This
> and other chapters are well suited to an evening's assigned reading
> for beginning students.
>
> Although Ropp's title indicates that he is placing China in the
> context of world history, he stays away from some of the most
> provocative scholarship linking Chinese and world history. For
> example, he does not introduce Andre Gunner Frank's thesis that
> China's insatiable demand for New World silver bolstered the European
> economy from the sixteenth century onward (_ReORIENT: Global Economy
> in the Asia Age _[1998]), or Timothy Brook's marvelous _Vermeer's
> Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
> _(2008), which shows how trade in Chinese objects shaped European
> taste and daily life.
>
> There now are a good many choices of introductory books on Chinese
> history. Patricia Ebrey's _Cambridge Illustrated History of China
> _(2nd edition, 2010) is twice the length and beautifully illustrated,
> while well-established texts, such as Conrad Shirokauer's _A Brief
> History of Chinese Civilization_ (2nd edition, 2006), remain
> serviceable, but Ropp's is particularly well written and presented.
> It should have a long life as a classroom text and also can be
> recommended as a good short introduction to Chinese history for the
> general reader.
>
> Citation: David Buck. Review of Ropp, Paul S., _China in World
> History_. H-Asia, H-Net Reviews. January , 2011.
> URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=32184
>
> This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
> Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States
> License.
>
>
>
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Fw: REVIEW: Markovits on Banerjee _Becoming Imperial Citizens_

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Sukanya Banerjee. Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the
Late-Victorian Empire. Durham Duke University Press, 2010. ix +
272 pp. $84.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-4590-9; $23.95 (paper), ISBN
978-0-8223-4608-1.

Reviewed by Claude Markovits
Published on H-Asia ( January , 2011)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha

Imperial Citizenship in Late Colonial India

Nationalist teleologies often result in the erasure of significant
moments and movements, because the latter do not fit within the grand
narrative of the nation that tends to become the dominant version of
history. This is the case with that moment in the history of late
colonial India that is associated with the rise of so-called Moderate
nationalism. The dominant Indian historiography tends to treat it, if
not as a total failure, at best as an incomplete attempt that timidly
opened the path leading to the truly realized historical form of the
nation, the advent of which is often linked with Mahatma Gandhi's
rise to the leadership of the Indian nationalist movement. But Gandhi
himself, as is well known but often forgotten, did pass through a
lengthy phase when he was a believer not in Indian nationalism, but
in imperial citizenship as the way for Indians to acquire political
rights within the framework of a British Empire he then thought
fundamentally benevolent. Such an aspiration to a form of imperial
citizenship was shared in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries by a large section of India's Western-educated literati,
and in this book, Sukanya Banerjee, an associate professor of English
at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, seeks to recover the
meaning of this particular moment and to rescue it from what E. P.
Thompson famously called the "enormous condescension of
posterity."[1]

Written in the sometimes impenetrable jargon that seems to be favored
by practitioners of literary studies in North American universities,
the book does not make for easy reading, but it is however well worth
the effort for the often illuminating insights it throws on largely
forgotten and overlooked texts and actors. It is actually a
collection of four studies, held together a bit tenuously by the
thread of imperial citizenship. The notion, as the author rightly
points out, is a kind of oxymoron, as empires, by definition, produce
subjects and not citizens. How a form of putative citizenship could
however be invented within the context of the late Victorian British
Empire is a point about which the author elaborates in a lengthy
introduction that succeeds in defining a framework for analysis that
avoids some of the pitfalls of the postcolonial paradigm.

The first chapter, "Of the Indian Economy and the English Polls," is
a really original take on one of Indian nationalism's founding
fathers, Dadabhai Naoroji, and on his seminal critique of the
political economy of colonial India, _Poverty and Un-British Rule in
India_ (1901). Treating it as a literary text rather than the
scientific treatise it purports to be, Banerjee is able to show its
kinship to the genre of the gothic novel, which was then flourishing
in Victorian Britain. Although the parallel tends at times to
somewhat stretch the imagination of the reader, it proves
nevertheless heuristically rewarding as the author brings out the
similarity between the dismembered body of the Indian nation conjured
up by Dadabhai in his analysis of the profoundly dysfunctional
economic relationship between metropolis and colony and the
grotesquerie and gloom characteristic of gothic novels. The link to
the notion of imperial citizenship is established through a fairly
detailed study of Dadabhai's two campaigns for a seat in the British
Parliament as a Liberal MP on an Irish Home League ticket, which
resulted, at his second attempt in 1892, in his election for Finsbury
Central, the first time a "coloured" person was elected to a seat in
the British Parliament. Often treated in the existing historiography
of Britain and India as a kind of "freak," the episode is
nevertheless worth reflecting about, for the deep paradoxes it
reveals about the notion of citizenship as it evolved in the late
nineteenth century both in the imperial metropolis and in the Indian
colony. For Dadabhai, who was elected to a parliamentary seat in
Britain, would not even have been allowed to vote in his native
India. To a tiny elite of cosmopolitan and mobile Indians, the empire
offered a path to citizenship that India still refused them. But the
small size of the group involved must not lead to the conclusion that
the move and the aspirations were insignificant, and that their de
facto erasure from the historical record is justified.

Similar erasure threatens Gandhi's twenty-year fight for the rights
of South African Indians within the British Empire, often reduced, in
biographical accounts, to a simple rehearsal for Gandhi's future role
as liberator of India. In the second chapter, "South Africa,
Indentured Labor and the Question of Credit," the author returns to
this often-studied episode with a view to showing the many
ambiguities of the future Mahatma's position, in particular in
relation to the indentured laborers who formed the majority of the
Indian population of the colony of Natal. I found this chapter the
least convincing in the book, because treating Gandhi's South African
twenty-odd year stay as a whole, without paying enough attention to
the gradual evolution in the future Mahatma's thought and action,
leads to a flattening of certain dilemmas that he faced. In spite of
what literary analysis can tell us about the "spectral" presence of
the indentured laborers in Gandhi's discourse from the time of his
arrival in Durban, there is little doubt that they did not figure
prominently in his agenda before the last phase of his stay in South
Africa. Their status as "imperial citizens" was far from being a
priority for Gandhi, a critique that could also be extended to the
future Mahatma's attitude toward South African blacks. Late
recognition of their worth was largely linked to Gandhi's "discovery"
of the eminent dignity of manual labor in the writings of Russian
populists, such as Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev (and Leo Tolstoï), a
linkage that is not sufficiently emphasized. The discussion of
Gandhi's view on "credit" also suffers from insufficient attention to
his own background as a member of a merchant caste. In this chapter,
a certain lack of familiarity with the historical and sociological
context of late nineteenth- and early twentieth- century South Africa
(thus the author appears unaware of the fact that in the 1890s, the
South African Republic was a Boer state and not a British colony), as
well as a neglect of certain traits of the Gujarati merchant culture
in which Gandhi had been steeped, make for a somewhat unsatisfactory
treatment of Gandhi's very idiosyncratic trajectory.

By contrast, the method of literary criticism employed to good effect
by the author in the first chapter proves again its worth in the
third chapter, "The Professional Citizen in/and the Zenana," which
looks at a famous autobiographical text by India's first female
lawyer, Cornelia Sorabji, _India Calling: The Memoirs of Cornelia
Sorabji_ (1934). Recasting "professionalism" as a crucial idiom for
articulating citizenship without the nation (as Sorabji remained an
empire loyalist till the end of her life), the text offers a balanced
account of a fascinating and atypical career. Denied official
recognition as a lawyer because of her gender, Sorabji found a
specific niche for herself as a legal adviser to _pardanashin_ women
(women kept in the seclusion of _purda_) with the Court of Wards, a
role she assumed with considerable success. Allowed unlimited access
to the _zenana_ (women's inner apartments), which was of course a
forbidden space for male lawyers, she did not use the knowledge
gained to develop and publicize a systematic critique of the
condition of women in India, but pursued a piecemeal ameliorative
strategy, which left her in a kind of limbo vis-à-vis emancipatory
narratives recently developed by Indian feminists. Somewhat
distancing herself from feminist discourse and avoiding facile
censure, Banerjee is able to use Sorabji's largely self-chosen
liminality to good effect to underline some of the ambiguities of the
project of imperial citizenship, and its complex relationship to
issues of gender and race.

The fourth and last chapter, "Modernity and the Indian Civil
Service," deals with one of the major demands of "moderate"
politicians, the admission of Indians to the Indian Civil Service
(ICS), the "steel-frame" of the British Raj, a much-coveted badge of
imperial citizenship of a kind. It does it through a double movement
of examining a leading moderate's autobiography, Surendranah
Banerjea's _A Nation in the Making _(1925), and of looking at the
figure of the "competition-wallah" through a presentation of two now
largely forgotten literary texts produced in England, G. O.
Trevelyan's _The Competition-Wallah_ (1866) and H. S. Cunningham's
_Chronicles of Dustypore_ (1877). Counterposing Banerjea's trajectory
that led him to be the first Indian to have successfully passed the
ICS examination to a study of the way in which the "new" British ICS
officers, those who had entered the service after the institution of
a competitive examination in 1853, were perceived, offers a way of
going beyond the "binarism" that has too often dominated studies of
colonial India. Both the "effeminate" Bengalis, who represented the
majority of Indian aspirants to the ICS, of whom Banerjea was a
representative, and the "unmanly" middle-class British
"competition-wallahs" were judged by dominant voices in Anglo-India
to lack in "character" and virility, those essential attributes of
the Victorian gentleman, who served as the ideal type for both the
citizen and the bureaucrat. Thus the difference between Indian and
Briton was partly erased in the censure exercised by the dominant
"gendered" language of Victorian officialdom against all who did not
conform to its ideal of muscular masculinity. Those thus indicted
reacted by emphasizing their own masculinity, be it Banerjea
detailing his physical exertions in his memoirs, or Desvoeux, the
"competition-wallah" character in the _Chronicles of Dustypore_,
flirting with the main female character. Their similar rejection
points basically to a global unease in the way the Victorians dealt
with aspects of bureaucratic modernity and their lingering nostalgia
for some kind of "feudal" values.

All in all, the book brings into focus the way in which "imperial
citizenship" could be an ideal inspiring individual careers, but
failed to make the transition to becoming a viable political program.
Such failure need not be interpreted however only in negative terms,
for the measure of cosmopolitanism the "imperial citizenship" phase
injected into Indian political discourse proved of some value in
limiting the "nativist" excesses of the full-blown nationalism that
flourished in the following phase of India's history. As the author
underlines in her conclusion, recovering that moment is therefore not
to be viewed as a mere antiquarian pastime, but can prove to be of
more enduring value.

Regarding the insights that literary theory allows into the study of
history, a highly controversial topic, the book inspires slightly
mixed feelings. On the one hand, when it can rely on what it does
best, i.e., analyzing "literary" texts (including memoirs and
autobiographies), the literary method proves of undoubted heuristic
value, although its construction of inter-textuality is always in
danger of being somewhat arbitrary and therefore problematic. On the
other hand, when the analysis of printed texts has to be combined
with the perusal of archival materials, as in the case of Gandhi's
South African episode, some of the limitations of the method become
visible. One is nevertheless grateful to Banerjee for having
retrieved from quasi-oblivion an archive of imperial citizenship well
worth our attention. That the definition of citizenship cannot be
entirely encompassed within the ambit of one particular nation-state
is an idea that broadens our horizons and is potentially fruitful.
There remains for the present time a challenge: how to be a "global"
citizen, without being an "imperial" one.

Note

[1]. E. P. Thompson, _The Making of the English Working Class_
(Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1968), 21

Citation: Claude Markovits. Review of Banerjee, Sukanya, _Becoming
Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire_. H-Asia,
H-Net Reviews. January , 2011.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=30858

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Sukanya Banerjee. Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the
Late-Victorian Empire. Durham Duke University Press, 2010. ix +
272 pp. $84.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-4590-9; $23.95 (paper), ISBN
978-0-8223-4608-1.

Reviewed by Claude Markovits
Published on H-Asia ( January , 2011)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha

Imperial Citizenship in Late Colonial India

Nationalist teleologies often result in the erasure of significant
moments and movements, because the latter do not fit within the grand
narrative of the nation that tends to become the dominant version of
history. This is the case with that moment in the history of late
colonial India that is associated with the rise of so-called Moderate
nationalism. The dominant Indian historiography tends to treat it, if
not as a total failure, at best as an incomplete attempt that timidly
opened the path leading to the truly realized historical form of the
nation, the advent of which is often linked with Mahatma Gandhi's
rise to the leadership of the Indian nationalist movement. But Gandhi
himself, as is well known but often forgotten, did pass through a
lengthy phase when he was a believer not in Indian nationalism, but
in imperial citizenship as the way for Indians to acquire political
rights within the framework of a British Empire he then thought
fundamentally benevolent. Such an aspiration to a form of imperial
citizenship was shared in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries by a large section of India's Western-educated literati,
and in this book, Sukanya Banerjee, an associate professor of English
at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, seeks to recover the
meaning of this particular moment and to rescue it from what E. P.
Thompson famously called the "enormous condescension of
posterity."[1]

Written in the sometimes impenetrable jargon that seems to be favored
by practitioners of literary studies in North American universities,
the book does not make for easy reading, but it is however well worth
the effort for the often illuminating insights it throws on largely
forgotten and overlooked texts and actors. It is actually a
collection of four studies, held together a bit tenuously by the
thread of imperial citizenship. The notion, as the author rightly
points out, is a kind of oxymoron, as empires, by definition, produce
subjects and not citizens. How a form of putative citizenship could
however be invented within the context of the late Victorian British
Empire is a point about which the author elaborates in a lengthy
introduction that succeeds in defining a framework for analysis that
avoids some of the pitfalls of the postcolonial paradigm.

The first chapter, "Of the Indian Economy and the English Polls," is
a really original take on one of Indian nationalism's founding
fathers, Dadabhai Naoroji, and on his seminal critique of the
political economy of colonial India, _Poverty and Un-British Rule in
India_ (1901). Treating it as a literary text rather than the
scientific treatise it purports to be, Banerjee is able to show its
kinship to the genre of the gothic novel, which was then flourishing
in Victorian Britain. Although the parallel tends at times to
somewhat stretch the imagination of the reader, it proves
nevertheless heuristically rewarding as the author brings out the
similarity between the dismembered body of the Indian nation conjured
up by Dadabhai in his analysis of the profoundly dysfunctional
economic relationship between metropolis and colony and the
grotesquerie and gloom characteristic of gothic novels. The link to
the notion of imperial citizenship is established through a fairly
detailed study of Dadabhai's two campaigns for a seat in the British
Parliament as a Liberal MP on an Irish Home League ticket, which
resulted, at his second attempt in 1892, in his election for Finsbury
Central, the first time a "coloured" person was elected to a seat in
the British Parliament. Often treated in the existing historiography
of Britain and India as a kind of "freak," the episode is
nevertheless worth reflecting about, for the deep paradoxes it
reveals about the notion of citizenship as it evolved in the late
nineteenth century both in the imperial metropolis and in the Indian
colony. For Dadabhai, who was elected to a parliamentary seat in
Britain, would not even have been allowed to vote in his native
India. To a tiny elite of cosmopolitan and mobile Indians, the empire
offered a path to citizenship that India still refused them. But the
small size of the group involved must not lead to the conclusion that
the move and the aspirations were insignificant, and that their de
facto erasure from the historical record is justified.

Similar erasure threatens Gandhi's twenty-year fight for the rights
of South African Indians within the British Empire, often reduced, in
biographical accounts, to a simple rehearsal for Gandhi's future role
as liberator of India. In the second chapter, "South Africa,
Indentured Labor and the Question of Credit," the author returns to
this often-studied episode with a view to showing the many
ambiguities of the future Mahatma's position, in particular in
relation to the indentured laborers who formed the majority of the
Indian population of the colony of Natal. I found this chapter the
least convincing in the book, because treating Gandhi's South African
twenty-odd year stay as a whole, without paying enough attention to
the gradual evolution in the future Mahatma's thought and action,
leads to a flattening of certain dilemmas that he faced. In spite of
what literary analysis can tell us about the "spectral" presence of
the indentured laborers in Gandhi's discourse from the time of his
arrival in Durban, there is little doubt that they did not figure
prominently in his agenda before the last phase of his stay in South
Africa. Their status as "imperial citizens" was far from being a
priority for Gandhi, a critique that could also be extended to the
future Mahatma's attitude toward South African blacks. Late
recognition of their worth was largely linked to Gandhi's "discovery"
of the eminent dignity of manual labor in the writings of Russian
populists, such as Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev (and Leo Tolstoï), a
linkage that is not sufficiently emphasized. The discussion of
Gandhi's view on "credit" also suffers from insufficient attention to
his own background as a member of a merchant caste. In this chapter,
a certain lack of familiarity with the historical and sociological
context of late nineteenth- and early twentieth- century South Africa
(thus the author appears unaware of the fact that in the 1890s, the
South African Republic was a Boer state and not a British colony), as
well as a neglect of certain traits of the Gujarati merchant culture
in which Gandhi had been steeped, make for a somewhat unsatisfactory
treatment of Gandhi's very idiosyncratic trajectory.

By contrast, the method of literary criticism employed to good effect
by the author in the first chapter proves again its worth in the
third chapter, "The Professional Citizen in/and the Zenana," which
looks at a famous autobiographical text by India's first female
lawyer, Cornelia Sorabji, _India Calling: The Memoirs of Cornelia
Sorabji_ (1934). Recasting "professionalism" as a crucial idiom for
articulating citizenship without the nation (as Sorabji remained an
empire loyalist till the end of her life), the text offers a balanced
account of a fascinating and atypical career. Denied official
recognition as a lawyer because of her gender, Sorabji found a
specific niche for herself as a legal adviser to _pardanashin_ women
(women kept in the seclusion of _purda_) with the Court of Wards, a
role she assumed with considerable success. Allowed unlimited access
to the _zenana_ (women's inner apartments), which was of course a
forbidden space for male lawyers, she did not use the knowledge
gained to develop and publicize a systematic critique of the
condition of women in India, but pursued a piecemeal ameliorative
strategy, which left her in a kind of limbo vis-à-vis emancipatory
narratives recently developed by Indian feminists. Somewhat
distancing herself from feminist discourse and avoiding facile
censure, Banerjee is able to use Sorabji's largely self-chosen
liminality to good effect to underline some of the ambiguities of the
project of imperial citizenship, and its complex relationship to
issues of gender and race.

The fourth and last chapter, "Modernity and the Indian Civil
Service," deals with one of the major demands of "moderate"
politicians, the admission of Indians to the Indian Civil Service
(ICS), the "steel-frame" of the British Raj, a much-coveted badge of
imperial citizenship of a kind. It does it through a double movement
of examining a leading moderate's autobiography, Surendranah
Banerjea's _A Nation in the Making _(1925), and of looking at the
figure of the "competition-wallah" through a presentation of two now
largely forgotten literary texts produced in England, G. O.
Trevelyan's _The Competition-Wallah_ (1866) and H. S. Cunningham's
_Chronicles of Dustypore_ (1877). Counterposing Banerjea's trajectory
that led him to be the first Indian to have successfully passed the
ICS examination to a study of the way in which the "new" British ICS
officers, those who had entered the service after the institution of
a competitive examination in 1853, were perceived, offers a way of
going beyond the "binarism" that has too often dominated studies of
colonial India. Both the "effeminate" Bengalis, who represented the
majority of Indian aspirants to the ICS, of whom Banerjea was a
representative, and the "unmanly" middle-class British
"competition-wallahs" were judged by dominant voices in Anglo-India
to lack in "character" and virility, those essential attributes of
the Victorian gentleman, who served as the ideal type for both the
citizen and the bureaucrat. Thus the difference between Indian and
Briton was partly erased in the censure exercised by the dominant
"gendered" language of Victorian officialdom against all who did not
conform to its ideal of muscular masculinity. Those thus indicted
reacted by emphasizing their own masculinity, be it Banerjea
detailing his physical exertions in his memoirs, or Desvoeux, the
"competition-wallah" character in the _Chronicles of Dustypore_,
flirting with the main female character. Their similar rejection
points basically to a global unease in the way the Victorians dealt
with aspects of bureaucratic modernity and their lingering nostalgia
for some kind of "feudal" values.

All in all, the book brings into focus the way in which "imperial
citizenship" could be an ideal inspiring individual careers, but
failed to make the transition to becoming a viable political program.
Such failure need not be interpreted however only in negative terms,
for the measure of cosmopolitanism the "imperial citizenship" phase
injected into Indian political discourse proved of some value in
limiting the "nativist" excesses of the full-blown nationalism that
flourished in the following phase of India's history. As the author
underlines in her conclusion, recovering that moment is therefore not
to be viewed as a mere antiquarian pastime, but can prove to be of
more enduring value.

Regarding the insights that literary theory allows into the study of
history, a highly controversial topic, the book inspires slightly
mixed feelings. On the one hand, when it can rely on what it does
best, i.e., analyzing "literary" texts (including memoirs and
autobiographies), the literary method proves of undoubted heuristic
value, although its construction of inter-textuality is always in
danger of being somewhat arbitrary and therefore problematic. On the
other hand, when the analysis of printed texts has to be combined
with the perusal of archival materials, as in the case of Gandhi's
South African episode, some of the limitations of the method become
visible. One is nevertheless grateful to Banerjee for having
retrieved from quasi-oblivion an archive of imperial citizenship well
worth our attention. That the definition of citizenship cannot be
entirely encompassed within the ambit of one particular nation-state
is an idea that broadens our horizons and is potentially fruitful.
There remains for the present time a challenge: how to be a "global"
citizen, without being an "imperial" one.

Note

[1]. E. P. Thompson, _The Making of the English Working Class_
(Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1968), 21

Citation: Claude Markovits. Review of Banerjee, Sukanya, _Becoming
Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire_. H-Asia,
H-Net Reviews. January , 2011.
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> Philip Oldenburg. India, Pakistan, and Democracy: Solving the Puzzle
> of Divergent Paths. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon Routledge, 2010. x
> + 273 pp. $145.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-78018-6; $39.95 (paper),
> ISBN 978-0-415-78019-3.
>
> Reviewed by Sumit Ganguly (Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian
> Cultures and Civilizations at Indiana University, Bloomington.)
>
> Published on H-Asia ( January , 2011)
> Commissioned by Sumit Guha
>
> Common Origins, Divergent Paths
>
> From the perspective of the present it is hard to come to terms with
> the fact that both India and Pakistan emerged as independent states
> from the collapse of the British Indian Empire in 1947. The political
> trajectories of the two states have so significantly diverged that it
> seems inconceivable that they had common roots. Today , despite a
> plethora of domestic problems that are sandbagging its growth, India
> is increasingly a significant global actor. Pakistan, in contrast, is
> caught in a vortex of economic, political, and social problems, which
> have no possible panacea in the foreseeable future.
>
> Some past scholarship seeking to compare the two states has bordered
> on the polemical. For example, Ayesha Jalal's book, _Democracy and
> Authoritarianism in South Asia: A Comparative and Historical
> Perspective _(1995), suggested that the differences between India and
> Pakistan were little more than epiphenomenal. Instead, she argued
> that beneath their superficial and apparent differences the two
> states were structurally quite similar. Jalal's claims were, bluntly
> put, extraordinarily flawed. Her analysis overlooked the
> fundamentally different patterns of civil-military relations, the
> political mobilization of India's lower castes and minorities, the
> fitful but eventual success of India's federalism, and the
> independence of its judiciary.
>
> Fortunately, elements of an explanation for the divergence in their
> chosen roads can be gleaned from the work of other scholars. For
> example, the Indian historian, Mushirul Hasan, has provided more
> nuanced accounts of how the trajectories of the two nationalist
> movements had predisposed them toward disparate political outcomes.
> Also, the Indian political scientist, Rajni Kothari, in an early
> work, had correctly shown how the Indian National Congress was, in
> effect, a virtual parliament where contending views could be aired,
> discussed, and debated. This legacy played a vital role in
> socializing India's postindependence political leadership to the
> habits of negotiation and compromise.
>
> Philip Oldenburg's work, _India, Pakistan and Democracy_, is a timely
> and useful corrective to Jalal's breathtakingly lopsided analysis.
> Oldenburg emphasizes the critical choices of key nationalist leaders,
> especially Jawaharlal Nehru and Muhammad Ali Jinnah, in shaping the
> respective political arenas of their two nascent countries. However,
> he does not attribute the vastly divergent pathways of the two states
> to the agency of their respective nationalist leaderships. Instead,
> he alludes to the differences in the two principal nationalist
> movements, the ability (and the lack thereof) of the political class
> to establish firm control over their respective military
> establishments, and their differing approaches to the handling of the
> Indian Civil Service inheritance. He also bluntly deals with the
> rather delicate issue of the religious composition of the two states
> and the fraught relationship between nationalism and religion.
>
> The book is carefully researched, well documented, and clearly
> argued. That said, it has some important limitations. At the outset,
> it needs to be spelled out that it is almost completely derivative.
> Oldenburg makes excellent and deft use of the extant literature, but,
> in the end, the study is not based on new historical scholarship or
> on extensive fieldwork in the two states. This is, at best, a superb
> work of synthesis.
>
> In a related vein, Oldenburg displays a proclivity to rely
> inordinately on long quotations. Many of them are indeed apposite and
> telling. However, the sheer array of quotations from other works,
> both scholarly and popular, detracts from the quality of his
> analysis.
>
> Furthermore, despite its obvious strengths, Oldenburg's work suffers
> from two other limitations. First, the argument that he proffers,
> while complex, is hardly parsimonious. Eventually, the reader looks
> in vain for a straightforward causal explanation that would explain
> the markedly different pathways that the two states have trodden
> since independence. Second, and at a more substantive level,
> Oldenburg, in his quest for nuance, fails to adequately emphasize the
> markedly different internal organization and ideology of the two
> nationalist movements and their critical impact on the evolution of
> the political orders in the respective states. The dominant strand of
> one was inclusive, civic, and democratic. The principal
> characteristics of the other were its lack of internal democracy; its
> construction of a monolithic Muslim identity that sought to efface
> differences of region, class, and sect; and a charismatic leader's
> domination of its course. No discussion of the emergence and
> evolution of the two states can afford to elide over this fundamental
> set of differences. In the wake of independence and partition, the
> Indian National Congress possessed a legitimacy and standing among a
> wide swath of Indian society. The Muslim League, though instrumental
> in creating a new state, simply failed to command such widespread
> popular legitimacy. Not surprisingly, it came to rely on the military
> to maintain public order and thereby opened the door to authoritarian
> temptation.
>
> These shortcomings notwithstanding, this is a topical and worthwhile
> work. Policy analysts, journalists, and students interested in the
> contemporary politics of India and Pakistan will benefit considerably
> from a careful perusal of this book.
>
> Citation: Sumit Ganguly. Review of Oldenburg, Philip, _India,
> Pakistan, and Democracy: Solving the Puzzle of Divergent Paths_.
> H-Asia, H-Net Reviews. January , 2011.
> URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=32219
>
> This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
> Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States
> License.
>
>
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> Philip Oldenburg. India, Pakistan, and Democracy: Solving the Puzzle
> of Divergent Paths. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon Routledge, 2010. x
> + 273 pp. $145.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-78018-6; $39.95 (paper),
> ISBN 978-0-415-78019-3.
>
> Reviewed by Sumit Ganguly (Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian
> Cultures and Civilizations at Indiana University, Bloomington.)
>
> Published on H-Asia ( January , 2011)
> Commissioned by Sumit Guha
>
> Common Origins, Divergent Paths
>
> From the perspective of the present it is hard to come to terms with
> the fact that both India and Pakistan emerged as independent states
> from the collapse of the British Indian Empire in 1947. The political
> trajectories of the two states have so significantly diverged that it
> seems inconceivable that they had common roots. Today , despite a
> plethora of domestic problems that are sandbagging its growth, India
> is increasingly a significant global actor. Pakistan, in contrast, is
> caught in a vortex of economic, political, and social problems, which
> have no possible panacea in the foreseeable future.
>
> Some past scholarship seeking to compare the two states has bordered
> on the polemical. For example, Ayesha Jalal's book, _Democracy and
> Authoritarianism in South Asia: A Comparative and Historical
> Perspective _(1995), suggested that the differences between India and
> Pakistan were little more than epiphenomenal. Instead, she argued
> that beneath their superficial and apparent differences the two
> states were structurally quite similar. Jalal's claims were, bluntly
> put, extraordinarily flawed. Her analysis overlooked the
> fundamentally different patterns of civil-military relations, the
> political mobilization of India's lower castes and minorities, the
> fitful but eventual success of India's federalism, and the
> independence of its judiciary.
>
> Fortunately, elements of an explanation for the divergence in their
> chosen roads can be gleaned from the work of other scholars. For
> example, the Indian historian, Mushirul Hasan, has provided more
> nuanced accounts of how the trajectories of the two nationalist
> movements had predisposed them toward disparate political outcomes.
> Also, the Indian political scientist, Rajni Kothari, in an early
> work, had correctly shown how the Indian National Congress was, in
> effect, a virtual parliament where contending views could be aired,
> discussed, and debated. This legacy played a vital role in
> socializing India's postindependence political leadership to the
> habits of negotiation and compromise.
>
> Philip Oldenburg's work, _India, Pakistan and Democracy_, is a timely
> and useful corrective to Jalal's breathtakingly lopsided analysis.
> Oldenburg emphasizes the critical choices of key nationalist leaders,
> especially Jawaharlal Nehru and Muhammad Ali Jinnah, in shaping the
> respective political arenas of their two nascent countries. However,
> he does not attribute the vastly divergent pathways of the two states
> to the agency of their respective nationalist leaderships. Instead,
> he alludes to the differences in the two principal nationalist
> movements, the ability (and the lack thereof) of the political class
> to establish firm control over their respective military
> establishments, and their differing approaches to the handling of the
> Indian Civil Service inheritance. He also bluntly deals with the
> rather delicate issue of the religious composition of the two states
> and the fraught relationship between nationalism and religion.
>
> The book is carefully researched, well documented, and clearly
> argued. That said, it has some important limitations. At the outset,
> it needs to be spelled out that it is almost completely derivative.
> Oldenburg makes excellent and deft use of the extant literature, but,
> in the end, the study is not based on new historical scholarship or
> on extensive fieldwork in the two states. This is, at best, a superb
> work of synthesis.
>
> In a related vein, Oldenburg displays a proclivity to rely
> inordinately on long quotations. Many of them are indeed apposite and
> telling. However, the sheer array of quotations from other works,
> both scholarly and popular, detracts from the quality of his
> analysis.
>
> Furthermore, despite its obvious strengths, Oldenburg's work suffers
> from two other limitations. First, the argument that he proffers,
> while complex, is hardly parsimonious. Eventually, the reader looks
> in vain for a straightforward causal explanation that would explain
> the markedly different pathways that the two states have trodden
> since independence. Second, and at a more substantive level,
> Oldenburg, in his quest for nuance, fails to adequately emphasize the
> markedly different internal organization and ideology of the two
> nationalist movements and their critical impact on the evolution of
> the political orders in the respective states. The dominant strand of
> one was inclusive, civic, and democratic. The principal
> characteristics of the other were its lack of internal democracy; its
> construction of a monolithic Muslim identity that sought to efface
> differences of region, class, and sect; and a charismatic leader's
> domination of its course. No discussion of the emergence and
> evolution of the two states can afford to elide over this fundamental
> set of differences. In the wake of independence and partition, the
> Indian National Congress possessed a legitimacy and standing among a
> wide swath of Indian society. The Muslim League, though instrumental
> in creating a new state, simply failed to command such widespread
> popular legitimacy. Not surprisingly, it came to rely on the military
> to maintain public order and thereby opened the door to authoritarian
> temptation.
>
> These shortcomings notwithstanding, this is a topical and worthwhile
> work. Policy analysts, journalists, and students interested in the
> contemporary politics of India and Pakistan will benefit considerably
> from a careful perusal of this book.
>
> Citation: Sumit Ganguly. Review of Oldenburg, Philip, _India,
> Pakistan, and Democracy: Solving the Puzzle of Divergent Paths_.
> H-Asia, H-Net Reviews. January , 2011.
> URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=32219
>
> This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
> Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States
> License.
>
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Terror and Media - Special issue of Journal of South Asian Popular Culture

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> H-ASIA
> January 21, 2011
>
> Terror and Media - Call for papers for a special issue of Journal of South
> Asian Popular Culture
> ******************************************************************
> From:Ronie Parciack parciack@post.tau.ac.il
>
> A Special Issue of South Asian Popular Culture will be published in July
> 2013 on:
>
> Terror and Media
>
> Guest Editors: Ritu G. Khanduri and Ronie Parciack
>
> The spectacular 26/11/2008 attacks on Mumbai brought South Asia to the
> forefront of (western) discourse on terrorism. International and internal
> media coverage consociated the Mumbai calamity with the spectacular 9/11
> attacks by terming the Mumbai tragedy "India's 9/11." Several assessments
> denied The South-Asian context and subordinated it to Western history and
> conceptualizations. Public resentment of such analysis was articulated by
> Amitav Ghosh and Arundhati Roy among others, who called for decolonizing
> the media coverage, in other words to contextualizing the issue of
> terrorism within specific South Asian frameworks.
>
> This special issue aims at exploring pivotal theoretical and
> socio-political concepts related to representations of terror in
> contemporary South Asian visual cultures. Our aim is to lay the groundwork
> for a critical reexamination of terror and media in the South Asian
> context, and contribute to three interconnected areas of analytical
> import: 1. the theoretical debate on terrorism within South Asian
> conceptualizations and contexts; 2. a reconsideration of identity
> formations, cultural constructs and nationalism; and 3. the mass mediation
> of terror.
> South Asian Popular Culture invites paper proposals critically converging
> around terror and media across South Asia.
>
> Though not limited to these questions, we anticipate paper proposals to
> address:
>
> - What is Terror in the South-Asian context? Does the South Asian media
> provide a background for alternative definitions - or theorization - of
> terror?
> - How does the South Asian context challenge or negotiate the dominant
> readings of terror offered by Western theorists such as Slavoj Žižek,
> Alain Badiou and Jean Baudrillard? Can the South-Asian context provide us
> with a different orientation than the dominant psychoanalytical prism of
> Western cultural studies?
> - How is terror represented in South Asian contexts, and how do South
> Asian societies visually redefine themselves in the era of terror?
> - How does the era of terror challenge or recontextualize identity
> formations across South Asia?
> - How does the era of terror recontextualize concepts such as nationalism,
> sovereignty, nonviolence, youth, gender, body, order/disorder, the
> dynamics of East/West, local/global and notions of exchange?
> - Historically, does the South Asian mass media provide a framework for
> conceptualizing the sensations and spectacles associated with terror?
>
> We are looking for critical essays, which should be 5,000-6,000 words, and
> pieces for the "Working Notes," which could be interviews with artists,
> reviews of works and photo essays, ranging from 1,000 - 3,000 words each.
>
> Please email a 300 word proposal and a 150 word bio in a MS word
> attachment to jsapc@gmail.com by 30 April, 2011.
> Initial review decision will be notified by 15 August, 2011.
> Selected proposals should be submitted as complete Manuscripts no later
> than 15 January, 2012.
>
> All manuscripts will undergo peer review, based on initial editor
> screening.
> Manuscripts should not be under consideration by another publication at
> the time of submission.
>
> For additional information about South Asian Popular Culture, please
> visit:
> http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1474-6689&linktype=1
>
> Ronie Parciack, Ph.D.
> Dept. of East-Asian Studies
> Tel Aviv University
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> H-ASIA
> January 21, 2011
>
> Terror and Media - Call for papers for a special issue of Journal of South
> Asian Popular Culture
> ******************************************************************
> From:Ronie Parciack parciack@post.tau.ac.il
>
> A Special Issue of South Asian Popular Culture will be published in July
> 2013 on:
>
> Terror and Media
>
> Guest Editors: Ritu G. Khanduri and Ronie Parciack
>
> The spectacular 26/11/2008 attacks on Mumbai brought South Asia to the
> forefront of (western) discourse on terrorism. International and internal
> media coverage consociated the Mumbai calamity with the spectacular 9/11
> attacks by terming the Mumbai tragedy "India's 9/11." Several assessments
> denied The South-Asian context and subordinated it to Western history and
> conceptualizations. Public resentment of such analysis was articulated by
> Amitav Ghosh and Arundhati Roy among others, who called for decolonizing
> the media coverage, in other words to contextualizing the issue of
> terrorism within specific South Asian frameworks.
>
> This special issue aims at exploring pivotal theoretical and
> socio-political concepts related to representations of terror in
> contemporary South Asian visual cultures. Our aim is to lay the groundwork
> for a critical reexamination of terror and media in the South Asian
> context, and contribute to three interconnected areas of analytical
> import: 1. the theoretical debate on terrorism within South Asian
> conceptualizations and contexts; 2. a reconsideration of identity
> formations, cultural constructs and nationalism; and 3. the mass mediation
> of terror.
> South Asian Popular Culture invites paper proposals critically converging
> around terror and media across South Asia.
>
> Though not limited to these questions, we anticipate paper proposals to
> address:
>
> - What is Terror in the South-Asian context? Does the South Asian media
> provide a background for alternative definitions - or theorization - of
> terror?
> - How does the South Asian context challenge or negotiate the dominant
> readings of terror offered by Western theorists such as Slavoj Žižek,
> Alain Badiou and Jean Baudrillard? Can the South-Asian context provide us
> with a different orientation than the dominant psychoanalytical prism of
> Western cultural studies?
> - How is terror represented in South Asian contexts, and how do South
> Asian societies visually redefine themselves in the era of terror?
> - How does the era of terror challenge or recontextualize identity
> formations across South Asia?
> - How does the era of terror recontextualize concepts such as nationalism,
> sovereignty, nonviolence, youth, gender, body, order/disorder, the
> dynamics of East/West, local/global and notions of exchange?
> - Historically, does the South Asian mass media provide a framework for
> conceptualizing the sensations and spectacles associated with terror?
>
> We are looking for critical essays, which should be 5,000-6,000 words, and
> pieces for the "Working Notes," which could be interviews with artists,
> reviews of works and photo essays, ranging from 1,000 - 3,000 words each.
>
> Please email a 300 word proposal and a 150 word bio in a MS word
> attachment to jsapc@gmail.com by 30 April, 2011.
> Initial review decision will be notified by 15 August, 2011.
> Selected proposals should be submitted as complete Manuscripts no later
> than 15 January, 2012.
>
> All manuscripts will undergo peer review, based on initial editor
> screening.
> Manuscripts should not be under consideration by another publication at
> the time of submission.
>
> For additional information about South Asian Popular Culture, please
> visit:
> http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1474-6689&linktype=1
>
> Ronie Parciack, Ph.D.
> Dept. of East-Asian Studies
> Tel Aviv University
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: Position Comp. Culture (incl Asian philosophy & world history), Laureate Education, [Japan], Lecturer or higher rank

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 1:15 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: Position Comp. Culture (incl Asian philosophy & world
history), Laureate Education, [Japan], Lecturer or higher rank


> H-ASIA
> January 21, 2011
>
>
> Position: Comparative Culture Program, Asian & Western Philosophy; world
> history, Lecturer or higher rank
> ************************************************************************
> From: H-Net Job Guide:
>
> JOB GUIDE NO.: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=42060
>
> Laureate Education
>
> Faculty of Liberal Arts, Comparative Culture Program, Lecturer or higher
> position in Philosophy/History
>
>
> Institution Type: College / University
> Location: Japan
> Position: Lecturer
>
>
> Laureate International Universities (www.laureate.net), an international
> network of more than 50 universities in 24 countries, offering more than
> 130 undergraduate degree, graduate degree, and certificate programs in
> fields including law, medicine, business, architecture, design, and health
> science to more than 600,000 students worldwide, seeks to hire up to 45
> faculty in various disciplines to staff the launch of its first four-year,
> undergraduate university in Japan. The university is located in the Kansai
> region, which includes Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto and is one of the most
> culturally rich and international communities in Japan. The campus is 10
> minutes away by train from downtown Osaka.
>
> The successful candidate will join the Faculty of Liberal Arts. Major
> responsibilities include teaching a set of core liberal arts courses and
> seminars in the Comparative Culture Program. Members of the faculty are
> expected to engage also in academic advising, community contribution, and
> scholarly research.
>
> Minimum qualifications:
>
> Ph.D. in Philosophy or History from an internationally acclaimed
> institution at the time of appointment; ABDs near completion of the degree
> will be considered.
>
> Ability to teach Asian and Western philosophy and World History;
> Outstanding teaching skills.
>
> Near native English skills. Japanese language skills desirable.
>
> Preference will be given to broadly trained candidates with experience
> working in interdisciplinary contexts or having intellectual interests
> that indicate an ability to teach and work in an interdisciplinary, highly
> collaborative atmosphere.
>
> The University is a four-year undergraduate institution based on a hybrid
> curriculum designed for ambitious, career-focused students, combining
> liberal arts education with specialized training for a fast changing
> world. The interdisciplinary curriculum is based on the concept of career
> pathways that begin with the development of fluency in English, followed
> by liberal arts courses designed to develop in students the capacity to
> think in critical, creative, independent, and global dimensions. At the
> final stage, students develop specialized professional skills leading to
> exciting careers. All students have opportunities to study abroad. The
> campus is international. A high percent of the faculty and student body is
> non-Japanese. Faculty will have opportunities to interact with their
> counterparts at other Laureate universities around the world.
>
> Salary and benefits commensurate with experience and academic background
> and competitive in the field.
>
>
> Contact: Applications should include a letter of interest, curriculum
> vitae, evidence of teaching effectiveness (e.g., course evaluations), two
> syllabi for the courses Comparative Philosophical Studies and Comparative
> Ethical Studies, a research statement, two article-length samples of
> research writing, and names and contact details for three references.
> Review of applications will continue until the position is filled. Send
> applications to: faculty.search.japan@laureate.net.
>
> Website: http://www.laureate.net
> Primary Category: None
> Secondary Categories: None
> Posting Date: 01/13/2011
> Closing Date 05/31/2011
>
>
> The H-Net Job Guide is a service to the profession provided by H-Net. The
> information provided for individual listings is the responsibility of the
> organization posting the position. If you are interested in a particular
> position, please contact the organization directly. Send comments and
> questions about this service to H-Net Job Guide.
>
> Humanities & Social Sciences Online Copyright 1995-2011
> ******************************************************************
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Fw: H-ASIA: Position Comp. Culture (incl Asian philosophy & world history), Laureate Education, [Japan], Lecturer or higher rank

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 1:15 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: Position Comp. Culture (incl Asian philosophy & world
history), Laureate Education, [Japan], Lecturer or higher rank


> H-ASIA
> January 21, 2011
>
>
> Position: Comparative Culture Program, Asian & Western Philosophy; world
> history, Lecturer or higher rank
> ************************************************************************
> From: H-Net Job Guide:
>
> JOB GUIDE NO.: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=42060
>
> Laureate Education
>
> Faculty of Liberal Arts, Comparative Culture Program, Lecturer or higher
> position in Philosophy/History
>
>
> Institution Type: College / University
> Location: Japan
> Position: Lecturer
>
>
> Laureate International Universities (www.laureate.net), an international
> network of more than 50 universities in 24 countries, offering more than
> 130 undergraduate degree, graduate degree, and certificate programs in
> fields including law, medicine, business, architecture, design, and health
> science to more than 600,000 students worldwide, seeks to hire up to 45
> faculty in various disciplines to staff the launch of its first four-year,
> undergraduate university in Japan. The university is located in the Kansai
> region, which includes Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto and is one of the most
> culturally rich and international communities in Japan. The campus is 10
> minutes away by train from downtown Osaka.
>
> The successful candidate will join the Faculty of Liberal Arts. Major
> responsibilities include teaching a set of core liberal arts courses and
> seminars in the Comparative Culture Program. Members of the faculty are
> expected to engage also in academic advising, community contribution, and
> scholarly research.
>
> Minimum qualifications:
>
> Ph.D. in Philosophy or History from an internationally acclaimed
> institution at the time of appointment; ABDs near completion of the degree
> will be considered.
>
> Ability to teach Asian and Western philosophy and World History;
> Outstanding teaching skills.
>
> Near native English skills. Japanese language skills desirable.
>
> Preference will be given to broadly trained candidates with experience
> working in interdisciplinary contexts or having intellectual interests
> that indicate an ability to teach and work in an interdisciplinary, highly
> collaborative atmosphere.
>
> The University is a four-year undergraduate institution based on a hybrid
> curriculum designed for ambitious, career-focused students, combining
> liberal arts education with specialized training for a fast changing
> world. The interdisciplinary curriculum is based on the concept of career
> pathways that begin with the development of fluency in English, followed
> by liberal arts courses designed to develop in students the capacity to
> think in critical, creative, independent, and global dimensions. At the
> final stage, students develop specialized professional skills leading to
> exciting careers. All students have opportunities to study abroad. The
> campus is international. A high percent of the faculty and student body is
> non-Japanese. Faculty will have opportunities to interact with their
> counterparts at other Laureate universities around the world.
>
> Salary and benefits commensurate with experience and academic background
> and competitive in the field.
>
>
> Contact: Applications should include a letter of interest, curriculum
> vitae, evidence of teaching effectiveness (e.g., course evaluations), two
> syllabi for the courses Comparative Philosophical Studies and Comparative
> Ethical Studies, a research statement, two article-length samples of
> research writing, and names and contact details for three references.
> Review of applications will continue until the position is filled. Send
> applications to: faculty.search.japan@laureate.net.
>
> Website: http://www.laureate.net
> Primary Category: None
> Secondary Categories: None
> Posting Date: 01/13/2011
> Closing Date 05/31/2011
>
>
> The H-Net Job Guide is a service to the profession provided by H-Net. The
> information provided for individual listings is the responsibility of the
> organization posting the position. If you are interested in a particular
> position, please contact the organization directly. Send comments and
> questions about this service to H-Net Job Guide.
>
> Humanities & Social Sciences Online Copyright 1995-2011
> ******************************************************************
> To post to H-ASIA simply send your message to:
> <H-ASIA@h-net.msu.edu>
> For holidays or short absences send post to:
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> SET H-ASIA NOMAIL
> Upon return, send post with message SET H-ASIA MAIL
> H-ASIA WEB HOMEPAGE URL: http://h-net.msu.edu/~asia/

Fw: H-ASIA: Position Economics, Development, Japan economy, Laureate International, Lecturer or higher rank

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 1:21 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: Position Economics, Development, Japan economy, Laureate
International, Lecturer or higher rank


> H-ASIA
> January 21, 2011
>
>
> Position: Economics, Development economics, globalization, economy of
> Japan, Lecturer or higher rank, Laureate International [Japan]
> ************************************************************************
> From: H-Net Job Guide:
>
> JOB GUIDE NO.: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=42061
>
> Laureate Education
>
> Faculty of Liberal Arts, Comparative Culture and International Business
> Programs, Lecturer or higher position in Economics
>
>
> Institution Type: College / University
> Location: Japan
> Position: Lecturer
>
>
> Laureate International Universities (www.laureate.net), an international
> network of more than 50 universities in 24 countries, offering more than
> 130 undergraduate degree, graduate degree, and certificate programs in
> fields including law, medicine, business, architecture, design, and health
> science to more than 600,000 students worldwide, seeks to hire up to 45
> faculty in various disciplines to staff the launch of its first four-year,
> undergraduate university in Japan. The university is located in the Kansai
> region, which includes Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto and is one of the most
> culturally rich and international communities in Japan. The campus is 10
> minutes away by train from downtown Osaka.
>
> The successful candidate will join the Faculty of Liberal Arts. Major
> responsibilities include teaching a set of core liberal arts courses and
> seminars in the Comparative Culture Program. Members of the faculty are
> expected to engage also in academic advising, community contribution, and
> scholarly research.
>
> Minimum qualifications:
>
> Ph.D. in Economics from an internationally acclaimed institution at the
> time of appointment; ABDs near completion of the degree will be
> considered.
>
> Ability to teach microeconomics, macroeconomics, international economics,
> economics of globalization, Japanese economy, and comparative economic
> systems;
> Outstanding teaching skills.
>
> Near native English skills. Japanese language skills desirable.
>
> Preference will be given to broadly trained candidates with experience
> working in interdisciplinary contexts or having intellectual interests
> that indicate an ability to teach and work in an interdisciplinary, highly
> collaborative atmosphere.
>
> The University is a four-year undergraduate institution based on a hybrid
> curriculum designed for ambitious, career-focused students, combining
> liberal arts education with specialized training for a fast changing
> world. The interdisciplinary curriculum is based on the concept of career
> pathways that begin with the development of fluency in English, followed
> by liberal arts courses designed to develop in students the capacity to
> think in critical, creative, independent, and global dimensions. At the
> final stage, students develop specialized professional skills leading to
> exciting careers. All students have opportunities to study abroad. The
> campus is international. A high percent of the faculty and student body is
> non-Japanese. Faculty will have opportunities to interact with their
> counterparts at other Laureate universities around the world.
>
> Salary and benefits commensurate with experience and academic background
> and competitive in the field.
>
>
> Contact: Applications should include a letter of interest, curriculum
> vitae, evidence of teaching effectiveness (e.g., course evaluations), one
> syllabus for the course Comparative Economic Systems, a research
> statement, two article-length samples of research writing, and names and
> contact details for three references. Review of applications will continue
> until the position is filled. Send applications to:
> faculty.search.japan@laureate.net.
>
> Website: www.laureate.net
> Primary Category: None
> Secondary Categories: None
> Posting Date: 01/13/2011
> Closing Date 05/31/2011
>
>
>
> The H-Net Job Guide is a service to the profession provided by H-Net. The
> information provided for individual listings is the responsibility of the
> organization posting the position. If you are interested in a particular
> position, please contact the organization directly. Send comments and
> questions about this service to H-Net Job Guide.
>
> Humanities & Social Sciences Online Copyright 1995-2011
> ******************************************************************
> To post to H-ASIA simply send your message to:
> <H-ASIA@h-net.msu.edu>
> For holidays or short absences send post to:
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> SET H-ASIA NOMAIL
> Upon return, send post with message SET H-ASIA MAIL
> H-ASIA WEB HOMEPAGE URL: http://h-net.msu.edu/~asia/

Fw: H-ASIA: Position Economics, Development, Japan economy, Laureate International, Lecturer or higher rank

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 1:21 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: Position Economics, Development, Japan economy, Laureate
International, Lecturer or higher rank


> H-ASIA
> January 21, 2011
>
>
> Position: Economics, Development economics, globalization, economy of
> Japan, Lecturer or higher rank, Laureate International [Japan]
> ************************************************************************
> From: H-Net Job Guide:
>
> JOB GUIDE NO.: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=42061
>
> Laureate Education
>
> Faculty of Liberal Arts, Comparative Culture and International Business
> Programs, Lecturer or higher position in Economics
>
>
> Institution Type: College / University
> Location: Japan
> Position: Lecturer
>
>
> Laureate International Universities (www.laureate.net), an international
> network of more than 50 universities in 24 countries, offering more than
> 130 undergraduate degree, graduate degree, and certificate programs in
> fields including law, medicine, business, architecture, design, and health
> science to more than 600,000 students worldwide, seeks to hire up to 45
> faculty in various disciplines to staff the launch of its first four-year,
> undergraduate university in Japan. The university is located in the Kansai
> region, which includes Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto and is one of the most
> culturally rich and international communities in Japan. The campus is 10
> minutes away by train from downtown Osaka.
>
> The successful candidate will join the Faculty of Liberal Arts. Major
> responsibilities include teaching a set of core liberal arts courses and
> seminars in the Comparative Culture Program. Members of the faculty are
> expected to engage also in academic advising, community contribution, and
> scholarly research.
>
> Minimum qualifications:
>
> Ph.D. in Economics from an internationally acclaimed institution at the
> time of appointment; ABDs near completion of the degree will be
> considered.
>
> Ability to teach microeconomics, macroeconomics, international economics,
> economics of globalization, Japanese economy, and comparative economic
> systems;
> Outstanding teaching skills.
>
> Near native English skills. Japanese language skills desirable.
>
> Preference will be given to broadly trained candidates with experience
> working in interdisciplinary contexts or having intellectual interests
> that indicate an ability to teach and work in an interdisciplinary, highly
> collaborative atmosphere.
>
> The University is a four-year undergraduate institution based on a hybrid
> curriculum designed for ambitious, career-focused students, combining
> liberal arts education with specialized training for a fast changing
> world. The interdisciplinary curriculum is based on the concept of career
> pathways that begin with the development of fluency in English, followed
> by liberal arts courses designed to develop in students the capacity to
> think in critical, creative, independent, and global dimensions. At the
> final stage, students develop specialized professional skills leading to
> exciting careers. All students have opportunities to study abroad. The
> campus is international. A high percent of the faculty and student body is
> non-Japanese. Faculty will have opportunities to interact with their
> counterparts at other Laureate universities around the world.
>
> Salary and benefits commensurate with experience and academic background
> and competitive in the field.
>
>
> Contact: Applications should include a letter of interest, curriculum
> vitae, evidence of teaching effectiveness (e.g., course evaluations), one
> syllabus for the course Comparative Economic Systems, a research
> statement, two article-length samples of research writing, and names and
> contact details for three references. Review of applications will continue
> until the position is filled. Send applications to:
> faculty.search.japan@laureate.net.
>
> Website: www.laureate.net
> Primary Category: None
> Secondary Categories: None
> Posting Date: 01/13/2011
> Closing Date 05/31/2011
>
>
>
> The H-Net Job Guide is a service to the profession provided by H-Net. The
> information provided for individual listings is the responsibility of the
> organization posting the position. If you are interested in a particular
> position, please contact the organization directly. Send comments and
> questions about this service to H-Net Job Guide.
>
> Humanities & Social Sciences Online Copyright 1995-2011
> ******************************************************************
> To post to H-ASIA simply send your message to:
> <H-ASIA@h-net.msu.edu>
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Fw: H-ASIA: Summer Study in India

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Field" <shanghaidrew@GMAIL.COM>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 7:01 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: Summer Study in India


> H-ASIA
> Jan 22 2011
>
> Summer Study in India
> ****************************
> From: Susan S Wadley <sswadley@syr.edu>
>
> I am pleased to announced that SU Abroad, in conjunction with the Schools
> of Architecture and the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse
> University, is offering a one month study abroad program in India in from
> May 22-June 26, 2011 entitled "A Path to Water." In this program, led by
> Victor Tzen, Professor of Architecture, and Emera Bridger Wilson,
> Syracuse's South Asia Center, we will look at the cultural, historical,
> architectural, and environmental contexts of step wells, which are
> traditional water structures in North India. Through this program we will
> look at contemporary water management issues and how studying local
> practices can lead to global solutions. Application materials and
> instructions can be found at
> http://suabroad.syr.edu/dest/program.html?id=565 . The deadline for
> applications is March 1, 2011.
>
> If you have any questions about the program, please do not hesitate to
> contact me.
>
> Emera
>
> Emera Bridger Wilson
> Outreach Coordinator
> South Asia Center, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
> 346 Eggers Hall
> Syracuse University
> Syracuse NY 13244
> (315) 443-4470
> elbridge@syr.edu
>
> ******************************************************************
> To post to H-ASIA simply send your message to:
> <H-ASIA@h-net.msu.edu>
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Fw: H-ASIA: Summer Study in India

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Field" <shanghaidrew@GMAIL.COM>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 7:01 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: Summer Study in India


> H-ASIA
> Jan 22 2011
>
> Summer Study in India
> ****************************
> From: Susan S Wadley <sswadley@syr.edu>
>
> I am pleased to announced that SU Abroad, in conjunction with the Schools
> of Architecture and the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse
> University, is offering a one month study abroad program in India in from
> May 22-June 26, 2011 entitled "A Path to Water." In this program, led by
> Victor Tzen, Professor of Architecture, and Emera Bridger Wilson,
> Syracuse's South Asia Center, we will look at the cultural, historical,
> architectural, and environmental contexts of step wells, which are
> traditional water structures in North India. Through this program we will
> look at contemporary water management issues and how studying local
> practices can lead to global solutions. Application materials and
> instructions can be found at
> http://suabroad.syr.edu/dest/program.html?id=565 . The deadline for
> applications is March 1, 2011.
>
> If you have any questions about the program, please do not hesitate to
> contact me.
>
> Emera
>
> Emera Bridger Wilson
> Outreach Coordinator
> South Asia Center, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
> 346 Eggers Hall
> Syracuse University
> Syracuse NY 13244
> (315) 443-4470
> elbridge@syr.edu
>
> ******************************************************************
> To post to H-ASIA simply send your message to:
> <H-ASIA@h-net.msu.edu>
> For holidays or short absences send post to:
> <listserv@h-net.msu.edu> with message:
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> Upon return, send post with message SET H-ASIA MAIL
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