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The 1857 Indian Uprising and the British Empire / Jill C. Bender.

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The 1857 Indian Uprising and the British Empire / Jill C. Bender.
Author
Bender, Jill C.
Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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xi, 205 pages; 24 cm
Summary
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.
Alternative Title
1857 Indian Uprising & the British Empire
Subject
  • HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
  • India > History > Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858
Genre/Form
  • History
  • History.
Note
  • Revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Boston College, 2011.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-197) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. "great body corporate": 1857 and the sinews of empire -- 3. "A mutiny was a very catching thing": fears of widespread resistance -- 4. Defending an empire: 1857 and the empire's "martial races" -- 5. Rebels, race, and violence: mid-Victorian colonial conflicts -- 6. legacy of violence -- 7. Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 9781107135154
  • 110713515X
  • 9781316501085
  • 1316501086
OCLC
  • 918879228
  • SCSB-10867567
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Harvard Library