Add to ORKGThis paper examines the politics of commemoration in colonial India, and the notorious massacres of Europeans at Cawnpore (and subsequent reprisals) during the 1857 rebellion. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben’s work I suggest that changing colonial practices of Mutiny remebrance reveal the organising logic of colonial sovereignty, as it negotiates the transition from the exceptional (potentially scandalous) violence of counter-insurgency to the sovereign paradigm of the rule of law. I conclude by examining Kipling’s journalism on the 1857 rebellion, and tracing the persistence of ‘mournful’ tropes of social exclusion and ritualised banning (as charivari) in his short fictions
The 1857-59 Indian Uprising was a cataclysmic event in the history of the British Empire in India an...
In the 150 years since it occurred, little about the events that shook northern India in the waning ...
British India and Victorian Culture extends current scholarship on the Victorian period with a wide-...
This monograph examines the politics of fear and legal exception in the literature and journalism of...
The 1857-59 Indian Uprising was a cataclysmic event in the history of the British Empire in India an...
When this paper was originally presented, in the summer of 2007, it risked provoking nothing less th...
The 1857-59 Indian Uprising was a cataclysmic event in the history of the British Empire in India an...
The 1857-59 Indian Uprising was a cataclysmic event in the history of the British Empire in India an...
The 1857-59 Indian Uprising was a cataclysmic event in the history of the British Empire in India an...
This Pivot explores the uses of the Mughal past in the historical fiction of colonial India. Through...
Starting from the analysis of the Irish characters in Kipling's Indian stories, this book shows that...
Violence had assumed sundry roles in a colonial setting; of them, the most severe, but also perhaps ...
This thesis explores the relationship between law, sovereignty and violence in colonial India in the...
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919 paved way for the independence of India and Pakist...
The 1857-59 Indian Uprising was a cataclysmic event in the history of the British Empire in India an...
The 1857-59 Indian Uprising was a cataclysmic event in the history of the British Empire in India an...
In the 150 years since it occurred, little about the events that shook northern India in the waning ...
British India and Victorian Culture extends current scholarship on the Victorian period with a wide-...
This monograph examines the politics of fear and legal exception in the literature and journalism of...
The 1857-59 Indian Uprising was a cataclysmic event in the history of the British Empire in India an...
When this paper was originally presented, in the summer of 2007, it risked provoking nothing less th...
The 1857-59 Indian Uprising was a cataclysmic event in the history of the British Empire in India an...
The 1857-59 Indian Uprising was a cataclysmic event in the history of the British Empire in India an...
The 1857-59 Indian Uprising was a cataclysmic event in the history of the British Empire in India an...
This Pivot explores the uses of the Mughal past in the historical fiction of colonial India. Through...
Starting from the analysis of the Irish characters in Kipling's Indian stories, this book shows that...
Violence had assumed sundry roles in a colonial setting; of them, the most severe, but also perhaps ...
This thesis explores the relationship between law, sovereignty and violence in colonial India in the...
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919 paved way for the independence of India and Pakist...
The 1857-59 Indian Uprising was a cataclysmic event in the history of the British Empire in India an...
The 1857-59 Indian Uprising was a cataclysmic event in the history of the British Empire in India an...
In the 150 years since it occurred, little about the events that shook northern India in the waning ...
British India and Victorian Culture extends current scholarship on the Victorian period with a wide-...