http://hdl.handle.net/2142/2300 Specializes in women, gender and empire in the context of modern Britain and colonial India. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/2384 Cold War Cosmopolitanism: The Education of Santha Rama Rau in the Age of Bandung, 1945-1954 Burton, A.M. When Santha Rama Rau burst onto the international literary scene in 1945 with her first book, Home to India, she was just twenty-two years old. Over half a dozen books and half a century later, she was anthologized in a Norton reader as a writer, a writing teacher, and the prototypical cosmopolitan of the twentieth century: “Born in Madras, India . . . [she] lived all over the world, from England to South Africa to Japan, until she settled in the United States.” Rama Rau’s transformation from fledgling author into the embodiment of the modern cosmopolitan ideal was largely a function of her elite status, her family connections, and the opportunities available to her as an educated Indian woman. The daughter of a diplomat father and an activist-feminist mother, she had all the credentials of the classic cosmopolite, including a transnational childhood lived across the spaces of the British Raj and an equally mobile adulthood facilitated by marriage to an American, Faubion Bowers, and a career as a travel writer. Though she did not recognize herself as exceptional, she conceded that her contemporaries might find her life “odd, peculiar, even a little mad . . . or exotic.” Exoticism was, of course, a fate to which many ex-colonial people who aspired to a cosmopolitan identity were subject in the decades following the breakup of the British Empire. But Rama Rau’s story does more than reveal the possibilities and limits of cosmopolitanism. Taken together, the books she produced in the wake of her travels in the 1940s and 1950s articulate a shifting vision of global community: from an earlier, Eurocentric model — rooted in a British/imperial worldview — to a pan-Asian model — rooted in the realization of an emergent America centered global hegemony. (From the article) Rau, Santha Rama Bandung http://hdl.handle.net/2142/2323 House/daughter/nation: Interiority, Architecture, and Historical Imagination in Janaki Majumdar's "Family History Burton, A.M. In an age of virtual reality, cyberspace, and migration of global proportions, the very possibility of home is being vigorously contested. Whether it is identified as "Africa," England, India or, more subversively, the "black Atlantic," home is neither a stationary place nor a self-evident trope. Like all historical utterances, it is both fictional and contingent, inflected by the particular social contexts out of which it is fashioned and, of equal significance, defying the very materiality and permanence it appears to embody as well. What concerns me here is how and under what conditions home is recalled when a woman takes up the task of mapping domestic genealogies as a daughter, and how the architecture she produces ends up figuring the nation in history. More specifically, I want to examine what this work of reconstruction meant in the context of 1930s Indian nation-building, in the hands of a prominent nationalist's daughter who was bold enough to chronicle her family's history and, in the process, to reveal her own persistent desire for the elusive fiction of home. (from the article) Women Social Status Households Great Britain Majumdar, Janaki India Nationalism http://hdl.handle.net/2142/2297 Fearful Bodies into Disciplined Subjects: Pleasure, Romance, and the Family Drama of Colonial Reform in Mary Carpenter's Six Months in India Burton, A.M. Carpenter, Mary Colonialism Great Britain India Reform http://hdl.handle.net/2142/2293 When was Britain? Nostalgia for the Nation at the End of the "American Century." Burton, A.M. Race Relations Popular Culture National Self-image Great Britain http://hdl.handle.net/2142/2292 Contesting the Zenana: the Mission to make "Lady Doctors for India," 1874-1885 Burton, A.M. Great Britain Imperialism India London School of Medicine for Women Physicians Women http://hdl.handle.net/2142/2289 Tongues Untied: Lord Salisbury's "Black Man" and the Boundaries of Imperial Democracy Burton, A.M. Salisbury, 3d Marquess of Racism Press Parsis Parliament Naroji, Dadhabai Great Britain Elections