TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bender,Jill C.
TI  - The 1857 Indian Uprising and the British Empire 
SN  - 9781316633885
U1  - 954.0317 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - CUP
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
KW  - Indien
KW  - Kolonialismus
KW  - Kolonie
KW  - Rückwirkung
N1  - Revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Boston College, 2011
N2  - Situating the 1857 Indian uprising within an imperial context, Jill C. Bender traces its ramifications across the four different colonial sites of Ireland, New Zealand, Jamaica, and southern Africa. Bender argues that the 1857 uprising shaped colonial Britons' perceptions of their own empire, revealing the possibilities of an integrated empire that could provide the resources to generate and 'justify' British power. In response to the uprising, Britons throughout the Empire debated colonial responsibility, methods of counter-insurrection, military recruiting practices, and colonial governance. Even after the rebellion had been suppressed, the violence of 1857 continued to have a lasting effect. The fears generated by the uprising transformed how the British understood their relationship with the 'colonized' and shaped their own expectations of themselves as 'colonizer'. Placing the 1857 Indian uprising within an imperial context reminds us that British power was neither natural nor inevitable, but had to be constructed
ER  -