The Memoirs of a Brahmin; Or, The Fatal Jewels
Author : Brahmin
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Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 1843
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Author : Brahmin
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Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 1843
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Author : Brahmin
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,35 MB
Release : 1843
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Author : Brahmin
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Page : pages
File Size : 24,54 MB
Release : 1843
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File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 1843
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Author : Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library
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Page : 888 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 1863
Category : Law
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Author : Gautam Chakravarty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,42 MB
Release : 2005-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139442411
Gautam Chakravarty explores representations of the event which has become known in the British imagination as the 'Indian Mutiny' of 1857 in British popular fiction and historiography. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources including diaries, autobiographies and state papers, Chakravarty shows how narratives of the rebellion were inflected by the concerns of colonial policy and by the demands of imperial self-image. He goes on to discuss the wider context of British involvement in India from 1765 to the 1940s, and engages with constitutional debates, administrative measures, and the early nineteenth-century Anglo-Indian novel. Chakravarty approaches the mutiny from the perspectives of postcolonial theory as well as from historical and literary perspectives to show the extent to which the insurrection took hold of the popular imagination in both Britain and India. The book has a broad interdisciplinary appeal and will be of interest to scholars of English literature, British imperial history, modern Indian history and cultural studies.
Author : Frederick Wilse Bateson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 1940
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Author : Philip Meadows Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 17,88 MB
Release : 2024-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192596861
'You have given a faithful portrait of a Thug's life, his ceremonies, and his acts' Often overshadowed by Kipling's Kim or Forster's A Passage to India, Philip Meadows Taylor's forgotten classic, Confessions of a Thug (1839), is nevertheless the most influential novel of early nineteenth-century British India. This was the first dramatic account to expose a European readership to the fantastic world of the murderous Thugs, or highway robbers, who strangled their victims and who have ever since been a stable of Western popular culture. Writing in the voice of a captured Thug, Taylor presents an Orientalist fantasy that is part picaresque adventure and part colonial expos?. Confessions of a Thug offers a unique glimpse of the colonial world in the making, revealing how the British imagined themselves to be omniscient and in complete control of their Indian subjects. This unique critical edition makes available a fascinating and significant work of Empire writing, in addition to excerpts from the original colonial texts that inspired Taylor's narrative.
Author : B. J. Moore-Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,93 MB
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 131762937X
First published in 1986, this book sets Kipling firmly in the historical context not only of contemporary India but of prior Anglo-Indian writers about India. Despite his enthusiastic reception in England as ‘revealer of the East’, in India he seems to have been regarded as just one more Anglo-Indian writer. The author demonstrates the traditionalism of Kipling’s use of the themes of Anglo-Indian fiction – themes such as the ‘White Man’s grave’, domestic instability, frustration and loneliness. In particular, Kipling is shown to be writing in a strongly conservative idiom, concentrating on the role of the British hierarchy as the determining factor in a response to India, on British insecurity and fears of a repeat of the 1857 mutiny, and regarding Indian institutions only in so far as they represented a threat to British rule. Conservative critiques of liberalism are also discussed.
Author : William Cushing
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Page : 854 pages
File Size : 33,6 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
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