In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study of terrorism,
insurgency and the literature of colonial India, Alex Tickell
re-envisages the political aesthetics of empire. Organized around
key crisis moments in the history of British colonial rule such as
the Black Hole of Calcutta, the anti-thug campaigns of the 1830s,
the 1857 Rebellion, anti-colonial terrorism in Edwardian London and
the Amritsar massacre in 1919, this timely book reveals how the
terrorizing threat of violence mutually defined discursive
relations between colonizer and colonized.
Based on original research and drawing on theoretical work on
sovereignty and the exception, this book examines Indian-English
literary traditions in transaction and covers fiction and
journalism by both colonial and Indian authors. It includes
critical readings of several significant early Indian works for the
first time: from neglected fictions such as Kylas Chunder Dutt 's
story of anticolonial rebellion A Journal of Forty-Eight Hours of
the Year 1945 (1835) and Sarath Kumar Ghosh 's nationalist epic The
Prince of Destiny (1909) to dissident periodicals like Hurrish
Chunder Mookerji 's Hindoo Patriot (1856 66) and Shyamaji
Krishnavarma 's Indian Sociologist (1905 14). These are read
alongside canonical works by metropolitan and Anglo-Indian authors
such as Philip Meadows Taylor 's Confessions of a Thug (1839),
Rudyard Kipling 's short fictions, and novels by Edmund Candler and
E. M. Forster. Reflecting on the wider cross-cultural politics of
terror during the Indian independence struggle, Tickell also
reappraises sacrificial violence in Indian revolutionary
nationalism and locates Gandhi 's philosophy of ahimsa or
non-violence as an inspired tactical response to the terror-effects
of colonial rule.
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