Gentlemanly Terrorists - Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 19191947

Informationen zum Autor Durba Ghosh is Associate Professor at Cornell University, New York. Her research interests focus on understanding the history of British colonialism on the Indian subcontinent, the history of colonial governance and law, gender, sexuality, and the tensions between security and democracy in modern liberal democracies, such as India and the United States. Previous works include Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of Empire (Cambridge, 2006), Decentring Empire: Britain, India and the Transcolonial World (co-edited with Dane Kennedy, 2006), and a number of articles and chapters for the Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism, the American Historical Review, Gender and History, and Modern Asian Studies. Klappentext Durba Ghosh uncovers the critical place of revolutionary terrorism in the colonial and postcolonial history of modern India. Zusammenfassung A major new study of the critical place of revolutionary terrorism in the colonial and postcolonial history of modern India. Durba Ghosh charts how the application of the rule of law was abrogated! reshaped! and transformed as the British faced challenges posed by a wave of violent terrorist campaigns. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The reforms of 1919: Montagu-Chelmsford, the Rowlatt Act, Jails Commission, and the Royal Amnesty; 2. The history of revolutionary terrorism through autobiography; 3. After Chauri Chaura: the revival and repression of revolutionary terrorism; 4. After the Chittagong Armoury Raid: revolutionary terrorism in the 1930s; 5. From political prisoner to security prisoner; 6. Revolutionary autobiographies: postcolonial tellings of nationalist history; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Durba Ghosh, Durba (Cornell University Ghosh, Ghosh Durba
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781107186668
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18666-8
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Critical Perspectives on Empire; Critical Perspectives on Empir; Critical Perspectives on Empire; Critical Perspectives on Empir
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; 20th Century, India, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Asian History, HISTORY / Asia / South / India