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India and imperial vulnerability: Knowledge, aesthetics and subjects in British discourses of disaster, 1763-1939

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This study of famines, earthquakes and cyclones in British India, 1770-1934, moves from the aesthetics of representation through the knowledge cultures that sprang up around the disasters and finally the construction of the helpless native and the labouring Englishman. It studies the creation of imperial networks of knowledge acquisition, codification and training, as well as the employment of certain aesthetic modes when speaking of the land’s disasters. It pays attention to the categoriza...