The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India: Exploring Transgressions, Contests and Diversities

ISBN-13: 9780415627450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 196 str.

Biswamoy Pati

Opis

The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India was much more than a 'sepoy mutiny'. It was a major event in South Asian and British colonial history that significantly challenged imperialism in India. This fascinating collection explores hitherto ignored diversities of the Great Rebellion such as gender and colonial fiction, courtesans, white 'marginals', penal laws and colonial anxieties about the Mughals, even in exile. Also studied are popular struggles involving tribals and outcastes, and the way outcastes in the south of India locate the Rebellion. Interdisciplinary in focus and based on a range of untapped source materials and rare, printed tracts, this book questions conventional wisdom. The comprehensive introduction traces the different historiographical approaches to the Great Rebellion, including the imperialist, nationalist, marxist and subaltern scholarship. While questioning typical assumptions associated with the Great Rebellion, it argues that the Rebellion neither began nor ended in 1857-58. Clearly informed by the 'Subaltern Studies' scholarship, this book is post-subalternist as it moves far beyond narrow subalternist concerns. It will be of interest to students of Colonial and South Asian History, Social History, Cultural and Political Studies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Great Rebellion Biswamoy Pati  2. 1857 and the Adivasis of Chotanagpur Shashank S. Sinha  3. Remembering Gonoo: The Profile of an Adivasi Rebel of 1857 Sanjukta Dasgupta  4. Beyond Colonial Mapping: Common People, Fuzzy Boundaries and the Rebellion of 1857 Biswamoy Pati  5. Forests on Fire: The 1857 Rebellion in Tribal Andhra B. Rama Chandra Reddy  6. Contested sites: The Prison, Penal Laws and the 1857 Revolt Madhurima Sen  7. Courtesans and the 1857 Revolt: The Role of Azeezun in Kanpur Lata Singh  8. Discourses of ‘Gendered Loyalty’: Constructing Indian Women in ‘Mutiny’ Fiction of the Nineteenth century Indrani Sen  9. The ‘Disposable’ Brethren: European Marginals in Eastern India during the Great Rebellion Sarmsitha De  10. Sanitizing Indigenous Memory: 1857 and Mughal Exile Amar Farooqui  11. Ideas, Memories and Meanings: Adi Dravida Interpretations of the Impact of the 1857 Rebellion Raj Shekhar Basu