The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India: Exploring Transgressions, Contests and DiversitiesBiswamoy Pati Routledge, 25/02/2010 - 208 من الصفحات 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. |
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SHASHANKS SINHA16 | |
common people fuzzy boundaries and | |
the 1857 Rebellion in tribal Andhra | |
B RAMACHANDRA REDDY 63 | |
the role of Azeezun in Kanpur | |
Indian women in nineteenthcentury | |
INDRANISEN 111 | |
1857 and Mughal exile | |
Adi Dravida interpretations of | |