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Rajabhakti: Languages of Political Belonging in Colonial Odisha

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Abstract

This essay studies the formation of a political language of rajabhakti or monarchical loyalty in the Odia-language print sphere in the second half of the nineteenth century. This language revolved around the key terms of Providence, market rationalism, and character. The article traces the provincial careers of these crucial Victorian terms and explores their entanglement with local histories and discourses in the colony. It shows how the language of monarchical loyalty enabled provincial Victorians to construct and inhabit their everyday lifeworlds in the empire.

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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 52 , Special Issue 1: Vernacular Victoria , Spring 2024 , pp. 148 - 170
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Chand, Govind Chandra. Gaurishankar Ray. Bhubaneswar: Odisha Sahitya Akademi, 2015.Google Scholar
Clark, J. C. D. English Society, 1688–1832: Ideology, Social Structure and Political Practice During the Ancien Régime. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.Google Scholar
Collini, Stefan. Public Moralists: Political Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain, 1850–1930. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Curless, Gareth, Hynd, Stacey, Alanamu, Temilola, and Roscoe, Katherine. “Editors’ Introduction: Networks in Imperial History.” In “The British World as World History: Networks in Imperial and Global History,” special issue, Journal of World History 26, no. 4 (2015): 705–32, www.jstor.org/stable/43901798.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Hatcher, Brian A. Idioms of Improvement: Vidyasagar and Cultural Encounter in Bengal. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996.Google Scholar
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