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The French Colonial Imagination - Writing the Indian Uprisings, 1857-1858, from Second Empire to Third Republic (Hardcover)
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The French Colonial Imagination - Writing the Indian Uprisings, 1857-1858, from Second Empire to Third Republic (Hardcover)
Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
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The Indian uprisings (1857-58) against British rule in India
represent an iconic period within the history of anti-colonial
resistance. Numerous works have considered these historical events
from British and Indian perspectives, but none have yet questioned
how they were viewed by Britain's foremost colonial rival in India,
the French. The French Colonial Imagination examines how the
potential for Britain to lose its most lucrative colony at the
hands its own colonial "subjects" allowed French writers to
envisage a world freed from British dominance. The uprisings
offered the attractive possibility that France could undergo a
colonial revival in the wake of British defeat, thereby reversing
the devastating losses inflicted upon France's former empire at the
end of the Napoleonic Wars. Notable among these losses was
Britain's decision (in the Treaty of 1814) to permanently reduce
France's presence in India to five small trading posts scattered
around the periphery of British territory. The extent to which to
the French colonial imagination of the nineteenth century was
shaped by the memories of such defeats forms a primary concern of
this monograph. This investigation into French responses to the
Indian uprisings reveals that French colonial discourse was
determined as much by its visions of the colonized "other," as by
the dominance of their British rivals. Drawing from journalistic,
historical, political, and fictional texts written during Louis
Napoleon's Second Empire (1852-70) and in the early years of the
Third Republic (1870-1944), The French Colonial Imagination shows
how the uprisings gave French writers the opportunity to speak out
against the rapacity of British colonialism and its treatment of
colonized Indians, while simultaneously constructing a competing
colonial discourse that would justify further expansion in North
Africa and South East Asia. Standing at a crossroads between the
"loss" of Ancien Regime's empire and the Third Republic's
ideological investment in overseas expansion, this understudied
period of colonial history reveals the centrality of loss,
fracture, and political emasculation as core preoccupations
haunting the French colonial discourse in its quest to regain
cultural and ideological ascendancy over its greatest political
enemy.
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