Name: Hartly House, Calcutta: Phebe Gibbes
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Author: Phebe Gibbes
ISBN: 9781526134370

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portada Hartly House, Calcutta: Phebe Gibbes

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Author

Phebe Gibbes

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

280

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781526134370

Edition No.

Synopsis "Hartly House, Calcutta: Phebe Gibbes "

This novel is a designedly political document. Written at the time of the Hastings impeachment and set in the period of Hastings's Orientalist government, Hartly House, Calcutta (1789) represents a dramatic delineation of the Anglo-Indian encounter. The novel constitutes a significant intervention in the contemporary debate concerning the nature of Hastings's rule of India by demonstrating that it was characterised by an atmosphere of intellectual sympathy and racial tolerance. Within a few decades the Evangelical and Anglicising lobbies frequently condemned Brahmans as devious beneficiaries of a parasitic priestcraft, but Phebe Gibbes's portrayal of Sophia's Brahman and the religion he espouses represent a perception of India dignified by a sympathetic and tolerant attempt to dispel prejudice. -- .

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