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020			_a9781316633885
041			_aEnglish
082			_a954.031 _bBEN
100			_aBender, Jill C.
245			_aThe 1857 Indian uprising and the British Empire _cJill C. Bender
260			_aNew Delhi : _bcambridge university press, _c2016.
300			_axi, 205 pages : _c24 cm.
505			_t"great body corporate": 1857 and the sinews of empire -- _t"A mutiny was a very catching thing": fears of widespread resistance -- _tDefending an empire: 1857 and the empire's "martial races" -- _tRebels, race, and violence: mid-Victorian colonial conflicts -- _tLegacy of violence --
520			_aSituating 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.
650			_aIndia -- History -- Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858.
942			_2ddc _cBOOKS
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