The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-521-83274-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 43, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 577 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chakravarty, Gautam

Beer, Gillian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Glossary; Introduction; 1. From chronicle to history; 2. Reform and revision; 3. Romances of empire, Romantic orientalism and Anglo-India: contexts, historical and literary; 4. The 'Mutiny' novel and the historical archive; 5. Counter-insurgency and heroism; 6. Imagining resistance; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index list.

Über Autor(innen)

Chakravarty, Gautam
Gautam Chakravarty is Reader in the Department of English at the University of Delhi. He is the translator of Jibananananda Das, Short Fiction, 1931-1933 (2001), and has recently translated Kapalakundala by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (2003).