Philanthropy and Civilizing Missions in India c. 1820–1960: States, NGOs and Development

Watt, Carey Anthony

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“…Protestant missionaries from Britain became predominant in South Asia (and parts of Africa) from the 19th century. They brought with them Victorian attitudes to charity and the poor which strongly opposed superstitious and wasteful indigenous (Sharma, 2001;Watt, 2011), "as well as Catholic" (Osella, 2018, p. 15) giving practices.…”

Section: Enter Colonialismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…African nationalists drew on trade unions and community cooperatives -components of the primordial public, the affective economy -to fund activities and provide volunteers (Aina, 2013). During the Indian Nationalist period, which began in the mid-19th century, the indigenous elites and educated middle classes activated for and funded social and political change through religious movements such as the Brahmo Samaj, Arya Samaj and the Ramakrishna Mission, as well as civic movements, such as Indian National Congress and the All-India Muslim League (Joshi et al, 2001;Kasturi, 2010;Watt, 2011).…”

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A Research Agenda for Civil Society

2022

The Value of Diasporic Cross-Border Philanthropy and Voluntourism

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Section: Enter Colonialismmentioning

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A Research Agenda for Civil Society

2022

The Value of Diasporic Cross-Border Philanthropy and Voluntourism

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“…141–142). Beginning in the first half of the nineteenth century, the independent Muslim states of Egypt and Ottoman Turkey initiated efforts to bring some measure of progress to their own societies, embarking on a “self‐civilizing mission” with parallels in other regions (e.g., Japan, China, Thailand) (Aydin, 2007; Jackson, 2004; Watt & Mann, 2011). These Muslim states adopted methods for governing their Muslim populations modelled on those of the Western empires (Davison, 1963; Mitchell, 1991; Makdisi, 2002; also see Herzog & Motika, 2000).…”

Section: Colonial‐era Muslim Policymentioning

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Liberalism's distinctive policy for governing Muslim populations: Human rights, religious reform, and counter‐terrorism from the colonial era until the present

Nakissa

2022

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During the colonial era, liberal Western states established vast empires which came to encompass almost all of the world's Muslims. Western states worked out specific methods for governing Muslims, which were often referred to as "Muslim policy". Recent scholarship on Muslim policy exhibits several key trends. One is expansion of geographical scope, leading scholars to produce more comprehensive global accounts of Muslim policy. Another trend is expansion of temporal scope, leading scholars to systematically link colonial Muslim policy with the governance of Muslims in the post-colonial era. A final trend is the reevaluation of liberal governance. Accordingly, scholars argue that, contrary to conventional assumptions, liberal ideology allows for -or even encourages -imperialism, authoritarianism, ethnocentrism, and racism. The present article makes several new contributions. It provides a synthesis of recent studies on Muslim policy -giving special attention to the key trends mentioned above. Moreover, the article proposes a novel way of conceptualizing Muslim policy. It is argued that Muslim policy centers on three overlapping projects: (1) a "human rights" project (2) a "religious reform" project and (3) a security project akin to what is now known

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“…Rather, these tend to be dominated and shaped by a smaller well-educated and bourgeouis elite, which attempts to extend its own values as normative in the public. This process i s also shaped by histories of colonial rule and associated universalizing hierarchies of progress and civilization (Chatterjee 2001;Bhandari 2006;Watt 2011).…”

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Between Marginality and Universality: Present Tensions and Paradoxes in French Colonial Cultural Heritage, Civilizing Mission, and Citizenship in Puducherry, India

Jørgensen

2017

Heritage & Society

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Combining historic and ethnographic approaches, this article analyzes the current production of colonial heritage in Puducherry, the former capital of French India. The aim is to explore the tensions and paradoxes that manifest themselves in postcolonial processes of marginalization and universalist claims surrounding the production of colonial heritage. Practices of heritage conservation and awareness have a colonial as well as postcolonial history of civilizing mission and claims to universal values, which create tensions in which some perspectives and positions are univerzalised, while others are marginalized. Importantly, this field extends beyond that of 2 heritage itself to encompass a larger set of universalizing claims on cultural, moral, aesthetic and political values. Puducherry, as a marginal colony of what in the context of India was a marginal colonial power, presents an interesting case of double historic marginalization and resulting postcolonial dynamics, as elements of this marginality recur in the present production of its heritage. A history of claims for universal values remains at play in the production of Indo-French colonial heritage surrounding Puducherry; although the dynamics of who is making claims on such values change in the postcolonial context. The ongoing processes of heritage conservation and attempts to produce 'heritage awareness' about the Indo-French heritage of Puducherry show how this heritage not only concerns issues such as political independence, social memory, tourism, economic and urban development, but also turns on conceptualizations of citizenship and heritage as civilizing mission, caught up in historically changing patterns of post/colonial relations and identities.

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Philanthropy and Civilizing Missions in India c. 1820–1960: States, NGOs and Development

Cited by 14 publications

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A Research Agenda for Civil Society

A Research Agenda for Civil Society

Liberalism's distinctive policy for governing Muslim populations: Human rights, religious reform, and counter‐terrorism from the colonial era until the present

Between Marginality and Universality: Present Tensions and Paradoxes in French Colonial Cultural Heritage, Civilizing Mission, and Citizenship in Puducherry, India

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