Rebellions and Wars
From Discovery to the Civilizational Mission: English Writings on India, The Imperial Archive, Volume 4
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 25 February 2022
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9789354358869
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages176 pages
- Size 222x140x14 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English 232
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Long description:
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India and the subcontinent stimulated the curiosity of the British who came to India as traders. Each aspect of life in India - its people, customs, geography, climate, fauna and flora - was documented by British travelers, traders, administrators, soldiers to make sense to the European mind. As they 'discovered' India and occupied it, they also attempted to 'civilise' the natives.
The present volumes focus on select aspects of the imperial archives: the accounts of ""discovery"" and exploration - fauna and flora, geography, climate - the people of the subcontinent, English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent, the wars and skirmishes - including the ""Mutiny"" of 1857-58 - and the ""civilisational mission"".
Volume 4 Rebellions and Wars is a collection of accounts of a very different British life in India: as prisoners, under siege and in conditions of war. The British ascendancy in India did not proceed smoothly, and colonisation was always a militarised zone of interest, action and process.
Table of Contents:
Prefatory Note
General Introduction: Archive and Empire
Introduction
Acknowledgements
1. J.Z. Holwell. A Genuine Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English Gentlemen and others who were suffocated in Fort-William, at Calcutta, in the Kingdom of Bengal, in the night succeeding the 20th day of June, 1756, in a letter to a friend. London: Printed for A. Millar in the Strand, 1758.
2. James Bristow. A Narrative of the Sufferings of James Bristow belonging to the Bengal Artillery during Ten Years Captivity with Hyder Ali and Tippoo Saheb. London: John Murray, 1793.
3. 'Koregaon Battle'. Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency 18, part 3. Bombay: Government Central Press, 1885.
4. Julia Inglis. The Siege of Lucknow: A Diary. London: James R. Osgood, McIlvine, 1895.
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