| Description |
1 online resource (207 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in South Asian History |
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Routledge studies in South Asian history.
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| Contents |
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 |
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9 The 'disposable' brethren: European marginals in eastern India during the Great Rebellion; 10 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 |
| Summary |
Interdisciplinary in focus, this title explores the areas of gender, colonial fiction, white marginal groups, the tribal movements, and penal laws, and associates them with the event. It presents alternatives views and expands and complicates the conceptual boundaries of the Rebellion |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Social aspects
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| SUBJECT |
India -- History -- Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064921
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India -- History -- Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858 -- Social aspects
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| Subject |
India
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203865392 |
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0203865391 |
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1282576291 |
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9781282576292 |
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