Organizing Empire - Individualism, Collective Agency, and India

"Organizing Empire" makes an important contribution to postcolonial theory. Through her theorization of individualism, Purnima Bose opens up in compelling ways the counterpossibilities of collective agency and helps move the discussion of anticolonial resistance from a generalized 'subject' to the analysis of specific conjunctures of resistant practice."--David Lloyd, author, "Ireland after History"

List of contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. Rogue-Colonial Individualism: General Dyer, Colonial Masculinity, Intentionality, and the Amritsar Massacre 29

2. Feminist-Nationalist Individualism: Margaret Cousins, Activism, and Witnessing 74

3. Heroic-Nationalist Individualism: Kalpana Dutt, Gender, and the Bengali "Terrorist" Movement 128

4. Heroic-Colonial Individualism: Raj Nostalgia and the Recuperation of Colonial History 169

Notes 223

Bibliography 251

Index 265

About the author

Purnima Bose is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University.

Product details

• Authors: Purnima Bose
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.09.2003
• EAN: 9780822327684
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2768-4
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 237 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 395 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Asiatische Geschichte, Indischer Subkontinent, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, History - General History, HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia