Ireland and India : Nationalism, Empire and Memory / / by M. Silvestri

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910963168703321
• Autore: Silvestri Michael <1966->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009
• ISBN: 9786612672439; 9781282672437; 1282672436; 9780230246812; 0230246818; 1-349-30368-2; 0-230-21674-9
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2009.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 298 pages, [15] pages of plates) : illustrations
• Collana: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, , 2635-1641
• Disciplina: 320.5409415
• Soggetti: Great Britain - History; Ethnology - Asia; Culture; World politics; Asia - History; History, Modern; History of Britain and Ireland; Asian Culture; Political History; Asian History; Modern History; History of South Asia
• 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 (p. 272-287) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 'An assertion of liberty incarnate' : Irish and Indian nationalists in North America -- 'The Sinn Fein of India' : the reception of Irish revolutionary nationalism in Bengal -- 'Lord and Master Nikkal Seyn' : the construction of John Nicholson as a British imperial hero -- An 'Irish ; Paladin' : John Nicholson as an Ulster and Irish imperial hero -- 'The remains of Ireland's loneliest martyr' : the commemoration of the Connaught Rangers mutiny -- 'Enemies of the Empire'? : the imperial context of the Connaught Rangers mutiny.
• Sommario/riassunto: Through a consideration of historical memory, commemoration and the 'imagined communities' of nationalism, Ireland and India examines three aspects of Ireland's imperial history: relationships between Irish and Indian nationalists, the construction of Irishmen as imperial heroes, and the commemoration of an Irish regiment's mutiny in India.