Essays about: "ENGLISH INDIA"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 27 essays containing the words ENGLISH INDIA.

  1. 1. Displays of Deference, Projections of Power : The English East India Company in Japan, 1615–1622

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Tami Hioki; [2023]
    Keywords : English East India Company; Hirado; Japan; Richard Cocks; Tokugawa shogunate; connected histories; cosmopolitanism; power relations; global interactions;

    Abstract : From 1613 to 1623, the English East India Company (EIC) maintained a trading post at Hirado, Japan. This trading post was one of the first that the EIC established, and because England was far from the empire it would one day become, Company members had to adjust to local customs and respect the laws of Japan in order to conduct business there. READ MORE

  3. 2. Ahtesham-Grunebaum-Stark’s The Tale of the Missing Man: a Dāstāṃ of a Bhopālī Lāpatā

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : S Tareq Khan; [2022]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Mazoor Ahtesham is a renowned writer in the modern Hindi literature. He is one of the fewMuslim voices in the modern Hindi literary canon.2 He gives a detailed picture of the Muslim society, which is undergoing a change within and, at the same time, is confronted by the change outside. READ MORE

  4. 3. Texts and Paratexts in a Colonial Context. Krupabai Satthianadhan's English Novels 'Saguna' and 'Kamala'

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Author : Karin Edgardh; [2020-01-15]
    Keywords : India; Krupabai Satthianadhan; Saguna; Kamala; Gérard Genette; Autobiography; Conversion; Colonial literature;

    Abstract : The anglophone Indian author Krupabai Satthianadhan (1862-1894) was a second-generation Christian convert and a member of the Christian Tamil family in colonial Madras. Knowledge of English was still a high-caste male privilege when Satthianadhan published reformist articles on female education. Her two novels, the autobiographical Saguna. READ MORE

  5. 4. Cross-cultural Analysis of Congratulations in American English, Indian English and Peninsular Spanish

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Kimia Avazpour; [2020]
    Keywords : Cross-cultural; speech acts; congratulations; DCTs; Elwood;

    Abstract : To gain a better understanding of intercultural communication, it is relevant to study speech acts not only in different languages but also across different language varieties. Seeing as speech act studies are said to have suffered from Anglocentrism there is a necessity to include nonwestern cultures (Wierzbicka, 1985:145). READ MORE

  6. 5. Geopolitical or generational responsibility? : A framing analysis of the Fridays for Future movement in Indian newspapers

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Matilda Olstedt; [2019]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The Fridays for Future movement offers a perspective on environmental responsibility that collideswith the traditional accountability perspective of many emerging economies. Fridays for Futuresuggests that socio-political elites of any one country, and especially those of elder generations, areresponsible for environmental degradation, whereas emerging economies maintain that only thedeveloped world is accountable for climate change. READ MORE