{"id":997,"date":"2017-08-07T14:18:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T13:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=997"},"modified":"2017-08-07T14:18:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T13:18:14","slug":"the-raj-beyond","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=997","title":{"rendered":"The Raj &#038; Beyond."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creina Mansfield<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<em>Raj: kingdom, used in twentieth century chiefly to denote British rule in India from 1858 to 1947, hence rajah\u2014ruler; and maharajah\u2014great ruler<\/em>.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The relationship between Britain &amp; India has been prolonged &amp; profound. In a post-colonial age, how do we interpret literature written during Empire? Now India is the world\u2019s largest democracy and a rising economic force, power, poverty and justice remain crucial themes.<\/p>\n<p>We shall study 2 texts written during the Raj, one a novel, the other a memoir, and then a novel set in independent India.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Kim (<\/em>1901) by Rudyard Kipling<\/li>\n<li><em>The Hills of Devi <\/em>(1953) by E.M. Forster<\/li>\n<li><em>The Lives of Others<\/em> (2015) by Neel Mukherjee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Day:\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0Wednesdays \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<b>Time<\/b>: 1.30-3.30 pm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dates<\/strong>: \u00a08 weeks, October 11<sup>th<\/sup> and ending December 6<sup>th, <\/sup>\u00a02017 with October 25th for half-term.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Address<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<strong>Elizabeth Gaskell\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>House<\/strong><br \/>\n84 Plymouth Grove<br \/>\nManchester<br \/>\nM13 9LW<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Price<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Concessions<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Minimum No.<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Maximum No.<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a385<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0\u00a380*<\/td>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td>35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>*If you have a valid annual entrance ticket to the Elizabeth Gaskell House.<\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>To book please contact Creina Mansfield<br \/>\n<strong>email<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:creina.m@hotmail.com\">creina.m@hotmail.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<strong>phone<\/strong>: 01625 511581<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creina Mansfield \u2018Raj: kingdom, used in twentieth century chiefly to denote British rule in India from 1858 to 1947, hence rajah\u2014ruler; and maharajah\u2014great ruler.\u2019 The relationship between Britain &amp; India has been prolonged &amp; profound. In a post-colonial age, how do we interpret literature written during Empire? Now India is the world\u2019s largest democracy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-997","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/997\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}