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



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Titolo: The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India : exploring transgressions, contests and diversities / / edited by Biswamoy Pati Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (207 p.)
Disciplina: 954.03/17
954.0317
Soggetto geografico: India History Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858
India History Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858 Social aspects
Altri autori: PatiBiswamoy  
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
Titolo autorizzato: The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-135-22513-3
1-135-22514-1
1-282-57629-1
9786612576294
0-203-86539-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910822301803321
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Serie: Routledge studies in South Asian history ; ; 7.