Antoinette Burton

Foreword / Mrinalini Sinha xi

Preface. A Note on the Logic of the Volume xvii

Acknowledgments xix

Introduction. Imperial Optics: Empire Histories, Interpretive Methods 1

Part I. Home and Away: Mapping Imperial Cultures

1. Rules of Thumb: British History and "Imperial Culture" in Nineteenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Britain (1994) 27

2. Who Needs the Nation? Interrogating "British" History (1997) 41

3. Thinking beyond the Boundaries: Empire, Feminism, and the Domains of History (2001) 56

4. Déjà Vu All over Again (2002) 68

5. When Was Britain? Nostalgia for the Nation at the End of the "American Century" (2003) 77

6. Archive Stories: Gender in the Making of Imperial and Colonial Histories (2004) 94

7. Gender, Colonialism, and Feminist Collaboration (2008, with Jean Allman) 106

Part II. Theory into Practice: Doing Critical Imperial History

8. Fearful Bodies into Disciplined Subjects: Pleasure, Romance, and the Family Drama of Colonial Reform in Mary Carpenter's Six Months in India (1995) 123

9. Contesting the Zenana: The Mission to Make "Lady Doctors for India," 1874-75 (1996) 151

10. Recapturing Jane Eyre: Reflections on Historicizing the Colonial Encounter in Victorian Britain (1996) 174

11. From Child Bride to "Hindoo Lady": Rukhmabai and the Debate on Sexual Respectability of Imperial Britain (1998) 184

12. Tongues United: Lord Salisbury's "Black Man" and the Boundaries of Imperial Democracy (2000) 214

13. India Inc.?: Nostalgia, Memory, and the Empire of Things (2001) 241

14. New Narratives of Imperial Politics in the Nineteenth Century (2006) 257

Coda. Empire of/and the World?: The Limits of British Imperialism

15. Getting Outside of the Global: Repositioning British Imperialism in World History 275

Afterword / C. A. Bayly 293

Notes 303

Index 381