Article: A South Kensington Gateway from Gwalior to nowhere.(1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition)(Critical essay)

Postcolonial histories of India have moved from straightforward narratives of domination or resistance to an emphasis upon dialogism. Dialogic histories assert some degree of subaltern agency and analyze the role ideological structures played in enabling so few to dominate so many for so long. Agency in these narratives is not necessarily located in deliberate resistance. It can also be understood as the effect of contradictions in imperial ideology as noted by such theorists of hybridity as Homi K. Bhabha. The "civilizing mission" in tandem with administrative necessity prompted the British to educate a hybrid Indian elite. Bhabha shows how consequent misrecognitions and ...

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