Writings and Speeches of Dr. Bhau Daji

Bender, Ernest; Dâjî, Bhâu; Mainkar, Trimbak Govind

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“…Daji was a visionary by all accounts, who was described as a 'founding Father of modern Bombay' due to his passionate involvement in the formation of the University of Bombay, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Bombay Association, the precursor body to the founding of the Indian National Congress. 24 He was an assistant teacher at the prestigious Elphinstone institution when the notification went out announcing the competition. His biographers, who were themselves eminent Sanskrit scholars, say he was also well read in the Hindu scriptures and was a practitioner of Ayurvedic medicine.…”

Section: The Genealogy Of Prize Cultures On Female Infanticidementioning

confidence: 99%

Languages of Injustice: The Culture of ‘Prize-Giving’ and Information Gathering on Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century India

Anagol

2017

Cultural and Social History

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Areas that remain understudied on female infanticide in India are information-gathering and the collaboration of elites. I examine the Company government's shift from coercion to palliative approaches such as the institution of prize-cultures in nineteenth-century western India. Questions asked are: what was the role of reformers such as Bhau Daji as prize-winner in the essay competitions? how did it change notions of justice? How was the body of the Indian woman criminalised? I conclude that essay competitions in prize cultures acted as an instrument of rule whereby rebuke or reward allowed the easy importation of British notions of justice.An overarching debate in the long historiography on female infanticide in India is polarised between reading British actions to socially reform India as based on genuine humanitarian concern or as undiluted imperialistic motives. Kanti Pakrasi and Lalita Panigrahi plotted the development of British policy by presenting the successful suppression of female infanticide by the 'benevolent' British Government that was driven by 'humanitarian zeal' . 2 These early

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Section: The Genealogy Of Prize Cultures On Female Infanticidementioning

confidence: 99%