LEADER 03551nam 22005175 450 001 9910826963903321 005 20231020224224.0 010 $a1-280-49416-6 010 $a9786613589392 010 $a1-4008-4260-3 010 $a9781400842605 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400842605 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC873357 035 $a(DE-B1597)453816 035 $a(OCoLC)979624181 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400842605 035 $a(CKB)2670000000161649 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000161649 100 $a20190708d2012 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe black hole of empire $ehistory of a global practice of power 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton, NJ :$cPrinceton University Press,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (440 p.) 311 $a0-691-15201-2 311 $a9780691152011 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$tCHAPTER ONE. Outrage in Calcutta --$tCHAPTER TWO. A Secret Veil --$tCHAPTER THREE. Tipu's Tiger --$tCHAPTER FOUR. Liberty of the Subject --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Equality of Subjects --$tCHAPTER SIX. For the Happiness of Mankind --$tCHAP TER SEVEN. The Pedagogy of Violence --$tCHAPTER EIGHT. The Pedagogy of Culture --$tCHAPTER NINE. Bombs, Sovereignty, and Football --$tCHAPTER TEN. The Death and Everlasting Life of Empire --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aWhen Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison. Of the group, 123 died of suffocation. While this episode was never independently confirmed, the story of "the black hole of Calcutta" was widely circulated and seen by the British public as an atrocity committed by savage colonial subjects. The Black Hole of Empire follows the ever-changing representations of this historical event and founding myth of the British Empire in India, from the eighteenth century to the present. Partha Chatterjee explores how a supposed tragedy paved the ideological foundations for the "civilizing" force of British imperial rule and territorial control in India. Chatterjee takes a close look at the justifications of modern empire by liberal thinkers, international lawyers, and conservative traditionalists, and examines the intellectual and political responses of the colonized, including those of Bengali nationalists. The two sides of empire's entwined history are brought together in the story of the Black Hole memorial: set up in Calcutta in 1760, demolished in 1821, restored by Lord Curzon in 1902, and removed in 1940 to a neglected churchyard. Challenging conventional truisms of imperial history, nationalist scholarship, and liberal visions of globalization, Chatterjee argues that empire is a necessary and continuing part of the history of the modern state.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions. 606 $aBlack Hole Incident, Kolkata, India, 1756 606 $aImperialism$xHistory 607 $aBengal (India)$xHistory$y18th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBlack Hole Incident, Kolkata, India, 1756. 615 0$aImperialism$xHistory. 676 $aELECTRONIC BOOK 700 $aChatterjee$b Partha$0119338 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826963903321 996 $aThe black hole of empire$94027821 997 $aUNINA