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010			_a 2016440935
020			_a9781107135154
020			_a110713515X
020			_a9781316501085
020			_a1316501086
082	0	0	_a954.0317 _bBEN/O
100	1		_aBender, Jill C
245	1	4	_aThe 1857 Indian Uprising and the British Empire
260			_aCambridge _bCambridge Univerisity press _c2016
300			_axi, 205 p. _billustrations ;
500			_aRevised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Boston College, 2011.
520			_aSituating 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.
650		7	_aHISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
650		7	_aIndien
650		7	_aKolonialismus.
650		7	_aKolonie.
650		7	_aRückwirkung.
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