The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India was much more than a ?sepoy
mutiny?. It was a major event in South Asian and British colonial
history that significantly challenged imperialism in India.
This fascinating collection explores hitherto ignored
diversities of the Great Rebellion such as gender and colonial
fiction, courtesans, white ?marginals?, penal laws and colonial
anxieties about the Mughals, even in exile. Also studied are
popular struggles involving tribals and outcastes, and the way
outcastes in the south of India locate the Rebellion.
Interdisciplinary in focus and based on a range of untapped source
materials and rare, printed tracts, this book questions
conventional wisdom.
The comprehensive introduction traces the different
historiographical approaches to the Great Rebellion, including the
imperialist, nationalist, marxist and subaltern scholarship. While
questioning typical assumptions associated with the Great
Rebellion, it argues that the Rebellion neither began nor ended in
1857-58.
Clearly informed by the ?Subaltern Studies? scholarship, this
book is post-subalternist as it moves far beyond narrow
subalternist concerns. It will be of interest to students of
Colonial and South Asian History, Social History, Cultural and
Political Studies.
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