10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NABOBERY»
Discover the use of
nabobery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
nabobery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Nineteenth-Century Theatre and the Imperial Encounter
Part II Theatrical Nabobery Imperial Wealth, Masculinity, and Metropolitan
Identities Figure 5.1. The Nabob at Home: Cover of Dick's Standard Plays Edition
of The Bengal Tiger (1837). © The British Library Board. Introduction to Part II
Joseph ...
2
Colonial Narratives/Cultural Dialogues: 'Discoveries' of ...
In considering these recurring implications that the East has corrupted
Englishmen, can one infer, as Juneja (1992) does, that the eighteenth-century
discourse about nabobery "deftly reverses common conceptions about British
civility and ...
3
From Little London to Little Bengal: Religion, Print, and ...
If in the early nineteenth century london came to Calcutta, where its presence
was contested by competing visions, Calcutta went to london as well. the
eighteenth-century phenomenon of “nabobery” had fostered a fear, capitalized
on so ...
4
The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured ...
Cornwallis moved to stamp out nabobery by creating a more formal political
service that recruited the sons of wealthy landed and professional British families
with improved pay and perquisites. Civil service academies in Calcutta and
London ...
5
Gangs, Counter-gangs: And Other Political Crimes
"Nabobery" derives from the word "nabob", which in the 1780s was used to
describe the officials in the East lndia Company who stole from the company and
then returned to England to a life of wealth. ln the 1 980s nabobery came back
with a ...
6
Compton Audley; or, Hands not hearts
horrors of that pestilential clime, and may, for what we know to the contrary, be
seen daily, about three o'clock, enjoying a tiffin at the great nabobery in Hanover
Square. The above affair would have remained as secret as the grave, had it not
...
William Pitt Lennox (lord.), 1841
7
Rural Architecture: Being a Complete Description of Farm ...
There is too much nabobery about them to meet the wants, or suit the taste of the
plain American farmer. As to out-houses—the barn, stable, carriage and wagon-
house, tool-house, piggery, poultry-house, concrib, and granary, (to say nothing ...
Ravensworth soon discovered that the Party was made up of “a mingled yarn,” or
as Harry Bibury called it, “ well-dressed snobbery and! nabobery, yellow-faced
gentlemen, and canarycoloured ladies.” On Dudley's name being announced, ...
Lord William Pitt Lennox, 1843
9
Complex Audley; Or, Hands Not Hearts
horrors of that pestilential clime, and may, for what we know to the contrary, be
seen daily, about three' o'clock, enjoying a tiffin at the great nabobery in Hanover
Square. The above affair would have remained as secret as the grave, had it not
...
Lord William Pitt Lennox, 1841
10
The New Monthly Magazine
Such is the nabobery, into which Harley-street, Wimpole-street, and Gloucester-
place, daily empty their precious stores of bilious humanity. When Gay wrote his
famous fable, " The Hare with many Friends," he little anticipated the event which
...
Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, 1834
