Insecurity State - Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India

A provocative examination of how the British colonial experience in India was shaped by chronic unease, anxiety, and insecurity.

Sommario

Introduction: fear, panic, and the violence of empire; 1. Colonial insecurity in early British India, 1757-1857; 2. Re-assessing the 'garrison state': pacification and colonial disquiet in Punjab; 3. Law, the Punjab school, and the 'kooka outbreak' of 1872; 4. Frontier terror and the Murderous Outrages Act of 1867; 5. Imperial recruiting and imperial anxieties, 1870-1920; Conclusion: colonial vulnerability and the insecurity of empire; Epilogue: the insecurity state today.

Info autore

Mark Condos obtained both his B.A. and M.A. at Queen's University in Canada. In 2013, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, where he worked under the supervision of the late Professor Sir Christopher Bayly. In 2014, Dr Condos was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship at Queen Mary University of London. His current research examines how different forms of legal and extrajudicial violence were incorporated by the British and French empires in their attempts to police different frontier regions during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Riassunto

Condos explores the 'dark underside' of the ideologies that sustained British rule in India. He argues that India's colonial overlords were obsessively fearful, and plagued by an unreasoning belief in their own vulnerability as rulers. These enduring anxieties precipitated, and justified, an all too frequent recourse to violence.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mark Condos, Mark (Queen Mary University of London) Condos, CONDOS MARK
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781108407014
• ISBN: 978-1-108-40701-4
• Pagine: 272
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, British Empire, India, Colonialism & imperialism, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, C 1700 To C 1800, HISTORY / Asia / South / General