The Indian Mutiny and the British ImaginationCambridge University Press, 2005 M01 13 - 242 páginas Gautam Chakravarty explores representations of the event which has become known in the British imagination as the 'Indian Mutiny' of 1857 in British popular fiction and historiography. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources including diaries, autobiographies and state papers, Chakravarty shows how narratives of the rebellion were inflected by the concerns of colonial policy and by the demands of imperial self-image. He goes on to discuss the wider context of British involvement in India from 1765 to the 1940s, and engages with constitutional debates, administrative measures, and the early nineteenth-century Anglo-Indian novel. Chakravarty approaches the mutiny from the perspectives of postcolonial theory as well as from historical and literary perspectives to show the extent to which the insurrection took hold of the popular imagination in both Britain and India. The book has a broad interdisciplinary appeal and will be of interest to scholars of English literature, British imperial history, modern Indian history and cultural studies. |
Contenido
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Reform and revision | 49 |
Romances of empire Romantic orientalism and AngloIndia contexts historical and literary | 72 |
The Mutiny novel and the historical archive | 105 |
Counterinsurgency and heroism | 127 |
Imagining resistance | 156 |
Epilogue | 181 |
Notes | 184 |
Bibliography | 215 |
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