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The Return of the Mughal: Historical Fiction and Despotism in Colonial India, 1863-1908 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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The Return of the Mughal: Historical Fiction and Despotism in Colonial India, 1863-1908 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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This Pivot explores the uses of the Mughal past in the historical
fiction of colonial India. Through detailed reconsiderations of
canonical works by Rudyard Kipling, Flora Annie Steel and Romesh
Chunder Dutt, the author argues for a more complex and integral
understanding of the part played by the Mughal imaginary in
colonial and early Indian nationalist projections of sovereignty.
Evoking the rich historical and transnational contexts of these
literary narratives, the study demonstrates the ways in which, at
successive moments of crisis and contestation in the later Raj, the
British Indian state continued to be troubled by its early and
profound investments in models of despotism first located by
colonial administrators in the figure of the Mughal emperor. At the
heart of these political fictions lay the issue of territoriality
and the founding problem of a British claim to sole proprietorship
of Indian land - a form of Orientalist exceptionalism that at once
underpinned and could never fully be integrated with the colonial
rule of law. Alongside its recovery of a wealth of popular and
often overlooked colonial historiography, The Return of the Mughal
emphasises the relevance of theories of political theology - from
Carl Schmitt and Ernst Kantorowicz to Talal Asad and Giorgio
Agamben - to our understanding of the fictional and jurisprudential
histories of colonialism. This study aims to show just how closely
the pageantry and romance of empire in India connects to its early
politics of terror and even today continues to inform the figure of
the Mughal in the sectarian politics of Hindu Nationalism.
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