The 1857 Indian Uprising and the Politics of Commemoration

ISBN-13: 9781316511336 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Sebastian Raj (University of Oxford) Pender

Opis

An innovative study using the commemoration of 1857 as a prism through which to explore 150 years of Indian history.

Recenzje

'As much as it was a crucial historical event, the so-called 'Mutiny' of 1857 was a defining narrative and key motif of commemoration in the British imperial imagination. Pender skilfully writes the history of the Raj through the management of both memory and memorial sites, revealing the true significance of the rallying cry 'Remember Cawnpore!' Kim Wagner, Queen Mary, University of London

Spis treści

1. 'Remember Cawnpore!': British counterinsurgency and the memory of massacre; 2. 'Forget Cawnpore!': Commemorating the mutiny, 1857-77; 3. Negotiating fear: Celebration, commemoration and the 'Mutiny pilgrimage'; 4. The Mutiny of 1907: Anxiety and the mutiny's golden jubilee; 5. The war of Indian independence: A struggle for meaning, memory, and the right to narrate; 6. Remembering the mutiny at the end of empire: 1947-1972; 7. Celebrating the first war of independence today: caste, gender, religion.