For the Record: An Educational Memoir in Late Colonial India

For the Record: An Educational Memoir in Late Colonial India Mary Bhore’s Some Impressions of England (Bhore 1900) forms a record of her travel to England and the basis of her argument for women’s education in India. While Bhore does not openly criticise the empire, her account of her experience...

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Autor principal:	Tara Puri
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Publicado:	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2018
Materias:	Empire memoir self writing education Mary Bhore Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f3a3e77b89f84489889979acda3d62d72021-11-27T12:54:19ZFor the Record: An Educational Memoir in Late Colonial India10.12797/CIS.20.2018.02.041732-09172449-8696https://doaj.org/article/f3a3e77b89f84489889979acda3d62d72018-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/cis/article/view/381https://doaj.org/toc/1732-0917https://doaj.org/toc/2449-8696 For the Record: An Educational Memoir in Late Colonial India Mary Bhore’s Some Impressions of England (Bhore 1900) forms a record of her travel to England and the basis of her argument for women’s education in India. While Bhore does not openly criticise the empire, her account of her experiences as well as her very presence in England invert the logic of imperial relations by turning the colonial subject into the ethnographic observer. Her memoir is not unlike the writing of the “England-returned” men and women in late-colonial India, but it shows a curious absence of the personal. Drawing on Foucault’s “Self Writing”, I will argue that Bhore’s text is as much “a narrative of the self” as it is about a shaping of the other; in other words, it is an attempt to turn her own experience into a kind of guide for her readers. Tara PuriKsiegarnia Akademicka PublishingarticleEmpirememoirself writingeducationMary BhoreIndo-Iranian languages and literaturePK1-9601Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844ENCracow Indological Studies, Vol 20, Iss 2 (2018)
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description	For the Record: An Educational Memoir in Late Colonial India Mary Bhore’s Some Impressions of England (Bhore 1900) forms a record of her travel to England and the basis of her argument for women’s education in India. While Bhore does not openly criticise the empire, her account of her experiences as well as her very presence in England invert the logic of imperial relations by turning the colonial subject into the ethnographic observer. Her memoir is not unlike the writing of the “England-returned” men and women in late-colonial India, but it shows a curious absence of the personal. Drawing on Foucault’s “Self Writing”, I will argue that Bhore’s text is as much “a narrative of the self” as it is about a shaping of the other; in other words, it is an attempt to turn her own experience into a kind of guide for her readers.
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For the Record: An Educational Memoir in Late Colonial India

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