The Insecurity State: Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India

ISBN-13: 9781108407014 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 272 str.

Mark Condos

Opis

A provocative examination of how the British colonial experience in India was shaped by chronic unease, anxiety, and insecurity.

Recenzje

'Mark Condos's book offers a compelling insight into the driving principles underlying the British colonial state in Punjab and, in doing so, indicates some wider truths about the nature of imperial societies more broadly.' Catherine Coombs, The English Historical Review

Spis treści

Introduction: fear, panic, and the violence of empire; 1. Colonial insecurity in early British India, 1757–1857; 2. Re-assessing the 'garrison state': pacification and colonial disquiet in Punjab; 3. Law, the Punjab school, and the 'kooka outbreak' of 1872; 4. Frontier terror and the Murderous Outrages Act of 1867; 5. Imperial recruiting and imperial anxieties, 1870–1920; Conclusion: colonial vulnerability and the insecurity of empire; Epilogue: the insecurity state today.