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UNINA9910483841403321 |
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Silvestri Michael |
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Policing 'Bengali Terrorism' in India and the World : Imperial Intelligence and Revolutionary Nationalism, 1905-1939 / / by Michael Silvestri |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
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[1st ed. 2019.] |
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1 online resource (364 pages) |
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Britain and the World, , 2947-7190 |
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Imperialism |
Asia - History |
World history |
Security, International |
Criminology |
Imperialism and Colonialism |
History of South Asia |
World History, Global and Transnational History |
International Security Studies |
Crime Control and Security |
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1 Introduction: Imperial Intelligence and a Forgotten Insurgency? -- PART ONE Policing Revolutionary Terrorism in Bengal -- 2 The ''Bomb Cult'' and ''Criminal Tribes'': Revolutionaries and the Origins of Police Intelligence in Colonial Bengal -- 3 Surveillance, Analysis and Violence: The Operations of the Bengal Police Intelligence Branch -- 4 Intelligence Failures, Militarization and Rehabilitation: The Anti-Terrorist Campaign after the Chittagong Armoury Raid -- PART TWO The Wider World -- 5 Transnational Revolutionaries and Imperial Surveillance: Bengal Revolutionary Networks Outside India -- 6 Spies, Sailors and Revolutionaries: Bengal Revolutionaries, Indian Political |
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Intelligence and International Arms Smuggling -- 7 Intelligence Expertise and Imperial Threats: Bengal Intelligence Officers in North America, Europe and Asia -- 8 Epilogue: Bengal Intelligence Officers and the Second World War -- . |
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This book examines the development of imperial intelligence and policing directed against revolutionaries in the Indian province of Bengal from the first decade of the twentieth century through the beginning of the Second World War. Colonial anxieties about the 'Bengali terrorist' led to the growth of an extensive intelligence apparatus within Bengal. This intelligence expertise was in turn applied globally both to the policing of Bengali revolutionaries outside India and to other anticolonial movements which threatened the empire. The analytic framework of this study thus encompasses local events in one province of British India and the global experiences of both revolutionaries and intelligence agents. The focus is not only on the British intelligence officers who orchestrated the campaign against the revolutionaries, but also on their interactions with the Indian officers and informants who played a vital role in colonial intelligence work, as well as the perspectives of revolutionaries and their allies, ranging from elite anticolonial activists to subaltern maritime workers. . |
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UNINA9910964520903321 |
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Figal Gerald A. <1962-> |
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Asia-Pacific : Culture, Politics, and Society : Civilization and Monsters : Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan |
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Durham, NC, USA, : Duke University Press, 20000101 |
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Duke University Press |
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1 online resource (305 p.) |
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Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Monsters in the Twilight if Enlightenment -- PART I. SUPERNATURAL SIGNIFICATIONS -- PART II. DISCIPLINING DEMONS -- PART III. MODERN MYSTERIES -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the “stuff” of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern, or, at best, seen as representative of traditional beliefs that are overcome and left behind in the transformation toward modernity. In Civilization and Monsters Gerald Figal asserts that discourse on the fantastic was at the heart of the historical configuration of Japanese modernity—that the representation of the magical and mysterious played an integral part in the production of modernity beginning in Meiji Japan (1868–1912).After discussing the role of the fantastic in everyday Japan at the eve of the Meiji period, Figal draws new connections between folklorists, writers, educators, state ideologues, and policymakers, all of whom crossed paths in a contest over supernatural terrain. He shows the ways in which a determined Meiji state was engaged in a battle to suppress, denigrate, manipulate, or reincorporate folk belief as part of an effort toward the consolidation of a modern national culture. Modern |
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medicine and education, functioning as a means for the state to exercise its power, redefined folk practices as a source of evil. Diverse local spirits were supplanted by a new Japanese Spirit, embodied by the newly constituted emperor, the supernatural source of the nation’s strength. The monsters of folklore were identified, catalogued, and characterized according to a new regime of modern reason. But whether engaged to support state power and forge a national citizenry or to critique the arbitrary nature of that power, the fantastic, as Figal maintains, is the constant condition of Japanese modernity in all its contradictions. Furthermore, he argues, modernity in general is born of fantasy in ways that have scarcely been recognized.Bringing unexplored and provocative new ideas to the Japan specialist, Civilization and Monsters will also appeal to readers concerned with issues of modernity in general. |
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