![]() ![]() ![]() In following the "aetiology of resistance" Chakravarty is at his. Chakravarty reveals that it was from the "hysterical popular media that counterinsurgency gathered energy and momentum" (40). 1859), while it is entirely absent from popular accounts that reveled in the lurid and ultimately unsubstantiated accounts of murder, rape, and slaughter of British subjects by rebellious Indian sepoys. Author of Fifty Years in Chains, Fifty years in chains, or, The life of an American slave, The History of the Indian Mutiny : Giving a Detailed Account of the Sepoy Insurrection in India, Slavery in the United States, Slavery in the United States. Tracking the transformation of chronicle into history, Chakravarty points out that "the spectre of guilt returns with the trauma of the rebellion" (46) in official accounts such as Charles Ball's History of the Indian Mutiny (c. Paperback Bog (Bog med blødt omslag og limet ryg) 'The History of the Indian Mutiny: Giving a Detailed Account of the Sepoy Insurrection in India: And a Concise History of the Great Military Events Which Have Tended to Consolidate British Empire in Hindostan' af Charles Ball. We havent found any reviews in the usual places. Chakravarty introduces readers to unknown literary texts and argues that they constitute a significant archive the volume also contributes to a new intellectual history of empire that delves into the complex administrative and bureaucratic concerns usually perceived as the monolith of "official ideology." Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. Autobiographical accounts, contemporary histories by official and non-official observers, romances, and adventure fiction portray the British in India as triumphal, invincible, racially superior, and always already in control of the colony and its populations. He identifies accounts of the 1857 Indian Mutiny as a nodal point for understanding different phases of imperial ideology. Recounting the story of three British captives executed by the rebels at Lucknow, the historian Charles Ball, giving the ideologeme we are tracing another. Gautam Chakravarty's The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination comprehensively explores the generic crossovers that result from the intersections of literature and history in nineteenth-century literature of empire. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, £45.00, $75.00. English: Battery at Lucknow - the defenders on the look out, from The History of the Indian Mutiny by Charles Ball. 1 without loss of text old repair to closed tear from lower edge of one plate without impact on caption or image foxing, primarily in margins of plates otherwise, clean and bright.The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination, by Gautam Chakravarty pp. 2) old repair to lower corners of several leaves in vol. Heavy for international shipping, they will have to be sent by international priority. 1 frontispiece indicating that this was given by James W. The History of the Indian Mutiny: Giving a Detailed Account of the Sepoy Insurrection in India: And a Concise History of the Great Military Events Which Have Tended to Consolidate British Empire in Hindostan. Brain, stating "Copyright Edition." Inscription on blank leaf preceding vol. Each volume contains the London Printing and Publishing Co. No date of publication History of the Indian Mutiny was issued in parts in 18. ![]() Modern leather rebacking with gilt-tooled spine titles original maroon pebble-cloth over boards. , viii, 663, p., frontispiece and added engraved title page in each volume and 77 leaves of additional engraved plates (including double-leaf map) 28 cm. "Illustrated with Battle Scenes, Views of Places, Portraits and Maps, Beautifully Engraved on Steel." 2 volumes:, 2, vii,, 647, p. ![]()
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