Sebastian Raj Pender (University of Oxford)

The 1857 Indian Uprising and the Politics of Commemoration

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Produktbeschreibung

In this innovative and engaging new study, Sebastian Raj Pender utilises extensive archival research from India and Britain to trace the ways in which commemorative practices have responded to the demands of successive historical moments by shaping the events of the 1857 Indian uprising from the perspective of the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781316511336
• ISBN-10: 1316511332
• Artikelnr.: 62916142

Autorenporträt

Sebastian Raj Pender is a Research Associate at Balliol College, University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

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.