An Imperial Crisis in British India - The Manipur Uprising of 1891

Informationen zum Autor Caroline Keen holds a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She is the author of Princely India and the British: Political Development and the Operation of Empire (I.B.Tauris). Vorwort A compelling account of the failures of British imperial policy-making at the highest level. Zusammenfassung In 1891 a major anti-British revolt erupted in the northeast Indian princely state of Manipur after a dangerously miscalculated attempt by the Government of India to assert its authority in the wake of a palace coup. Following the murder of a number of senior officers, a substantial British force descended upon the state to restore order and to bring the prime culprits to a questionable justice, generating widespread condemnation in England. The Manipur Uprising and its aftermath showed the fragility of indirect rule in India and British underestimation of native loyalty to princely rule. With fresh archival research and contemporary reports, Caroline Keen here provides a compelling account of erratic imperial policy-making at the highest level. Inhaltsverzeichnis THE ROAD TO MANIPUR MANIPUR IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY CAST OF CHARACTERS THE ABDICATION OF SUR CHANDRA SINGH THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER’S ESCORT THE ARRIVAL OF THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER HOSTILITIES THE RETREAT THE SOLDIER’S ACCOUNT: LIEUTENANT CHARLES GRANT THE CIVILIAN’S ACCOUNT: SIGNALLER C. WILLIAMS THE THREE COLUMNS THE COURT OF ENQUIRY REACTION AT HOME THE TRIAL OF THE PRINCES THE AFTERMATH

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• Authors: Caroline Keen, Keen Caroline
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.07.2015
• EAN: 9781784531034
• ISBN: 978-1-78453-103-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, British Empire, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, India, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, HISTORY / Asia / South / India, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions