Having considered three literary/movie perspectives (Thakeray, Kipling and Forster) on the British Empire’s relationship with South Asia, what are the dominant assumptions and essentialisms made by the British about the region they ruled? Did they change over time and how did they serve/not serve the colonial state? Bolster your arguments with course materials and at least 6 scholarly works (journal articles and/or books).
This essay revolves around three books : Vanity fair, The Man Who Would Be King and a Passage to India. The main point is to highlight the changing relationship between Britain and India who the course of 1600 – 1947 (During the start of British East India company and End of British rule of India).
Basically Vanity Fair represents How India during that Time was seen as an unimportant land and whereby people who aren’t of title can go and make money in contrast to forester whereby the India is seen as integral Part of the Empire.
You need to at least six book as sources which are:
1) Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India
2) India under British Rule from the Foundation of the East India Company by Lawrence James
3) India under British Rule by James Talboys Wheele
4) The East India Company: Trade and Conquest from 1600 by Antony Wild
5) India under Colonial Rule: 1700-1885 by Douglas M. Peers
6) India 1885-1947: The Unmaking of an Empire