Colonial Economies, Consumer Loyalty, and the Transimperial

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CVS is delighted to welcome Sukanya Banerjee, Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee!

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Can the expansive demands of the free market be reconciled with more sedimented yearnings for the “local,” the “provincial”? In revisiting this classic-and abiding question-this talk studies the relation between late-nineteenth-century India and Britain, considering how an idiom of consumer loyalty negotiates the tense relation between free trade and incipient notions of territoriality and nationalism.Sukanya Banerjee is the author of Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire (2010, awarded the NVSA Sonya Rudikoff Prize for best first book in Victorian Studies), and the co-editor of New Routes for Diaspora Studies (2012). Her articles have also appeared in journals such as Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies.She will also be running a masterclass earlier in the day, as part of Professor Ruth Livesey's 'Provincialism at Large' series (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/masterclass-nation-home-and-empire-in-victorian-studies-tickets-90520779087). This lecture will be taking place in the Moore Annexe Lecture Theatre (Royal Holloway). All welcome!

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