The 1857 Indian uprising and the British Empire Jill C. Bender
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: New Delhi : cambridge university press, 2016.Description: xi, 205 pages : 24 cmISBN:- 9781316633885
- 954.031 BEN
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954.030882971 HAS Legacy of a Divided Nation : | 954.031 BAT V.1 Mutiny at the margins : | 954.031 BAY Rulers, townsmen, and bazaars : | 954.031 BEN The 1857 Indian uprising and the British Empire | 954.031 BEN The 1857 Indian uprising and the British Empire | 954.031 NAR Battles of the Honourable East India Company : | 954.031 PAT The 1857 Rebellion / |
"great body corporate": 1857 and the sinews of empire --
"A mutiny was a very catching thing": fears of widespread resistance --
Defending an empire: 1857 and the empire's "martial races" --
Rebels, race, and violence: mid-Victorian colonial conflicts --
Legacy of violence --
Situating the 1857 Indian uprising within an imperial context, Jill C. Bender traces its ramifications across the four different colonial sites of Ireland, New Zealand, Jamaica, and southern Africa. Bender argues that the 1857 uprising shaped colonial Britons' perceptions of their own empire, revealing the possibilities of an integrated empire that could provide the resources to generate and 'justify' British power. In response to the uprising, Britons throughout the Empire debated colonial responsibility, methods of counter-insurrection, military recruiting practices, and colonial governance. Even after the rebellion had been suppressed, the violence of 1857 continued to have a lasting effect. The fears generated by the uprising transformed how the British understood their relationship with the 'colonized' and shaped their own expectations of themselves as 'colonizer'. Placing the 1857 Indian uprising within an imperial context reminds us that British power was neither natural nor inevitable, but had to be constructed.
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