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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792464103321

Titolo

The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India : exploring transgressions, contests and diversities / / edited by Biswamoy Pati

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-22513-3

1-135-22514-1

1-282-57629-1

9786612576294

0-203-86539-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in South Asian history ; ; 7

Altri autori (Persone)

PatiBiswamoy

Disciplina

954.03/17

954.0317

Soggetti

India History Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858

India History Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858 Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: The Great Rebellion of 1857; 2 1857 and the adivasis of Chotanagpur; 3 Remembering Gonoo: The profile of an adivasi rebel of 1857; 4 Beyond colonial mapping: Common people, fuzzy boundaries and the Rebellion of 1857; 5 Forests on fire: The 1857 Rebellion in tribal Andhra; 6 Contested sites: The prison, penal laws and the 1857 Revolt; 7 Courtesans and the 1857 Rebellion: The role of Azeezun in Kanpur; 8 Discourses of 'gendered loyalty': Indian women in nineteenth-century 'mutiny' fiction

9 The 'disposable' brethren: European marginals in eastern India during the Great Rebellion10 Sanitizing indigenous memory: 1857 and Mughal exile; 11 Ideas, memories and meanings: Adi Dravida interpretations of the impact of the 1857 Rebellion; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 ba