The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination

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Author(s): Gautam Chakravarty
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2005

Language: English
Pages: 259

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Glossary......Page 11
Introduction......Page 15
Chronicle to History......Page 33
Frames of Reference......Page 36
Reception and Reaction: Charles Ball, History of the Indian Mutiny (c. 1859)......Page 46
Lineages of an Aetiology......Page 63
The Aetiology of Resistance......Page 72
Romances of Empire......Page 86
Romantic Orientalism and the Missionary (1811)......Page 93
The Location of Anglo-India......Page 105
Beginnings, 1858–9......Page 119
The Mutiny Novel and its Narrative Sediments......Page 127
First-Person Accounts and the Mutiny Novel......Page 141
The Colonial Small War, Heroism and Propaganda......Page 150
Intelligence Failure and the Visions of Suture......Page 170
Imagining Resistance......Page 183
Epilogue......Page 195
Notes......Page 198
Bibliography......Page 229
Index list......Page 251