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South Asian resistances in Britain, 1858-1947 /

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. The book focuses on a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ahmed, Rehana, Mukherjee, Sumita, 1981-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Continuum, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee; Part I; Violent Resistances; Chapter 1; Scholarship Terrorists: The India House Hostel? and the 'Student Problem' in Edwardian London; Alex Tickell; Chapter 2; 'For every O'Dwyer ... there is a Shaheed Udham Singh'?1: The Caxton Hall Assassination of Michael O'Dwyer2; Florian Stadtler; Part II; Working-Class Resistances; Chapter 3; Littoral Struggles, Liminal Lives?: Indian Merchant? Seafarers' Resistances; Georgie Wemyss; Chapter 4.
  • Ghulam Rasul's Travels?: Migration, Recolonization and Resistance in Inter-War BritainLaura Tabili; Chapter 5; Networks of Resistance?: Krishna Menon and Working-Class South Asians in Inter-War Britain; Rehana Ahmed; Part III; Resistances and the Elite; Chapter 6; Royal Relationships as a Form of Resistance?: The Cases of Duleep Singh and Abdul Karim; A. Martin Wainwright; Chapter 7; Herabai Tata and Sophia Duleep Singh?: Suffragette Resistances for India and Britain, 1910-1920; Sumita Mukherjee; Part IV; Cross-Cultural Resistances; Chapter 8.
  • Metropolitan Resistance?: Indo-Irish Connections in the Inter-War PeriodKate O'Malley; Chapter 9; Negotiating a 'New World Order'?: Mulk Raj Anand as Public Intellectual at the Heart of Empire (1924-1945); Susheila Nasta; Epilogue?: Salaam, Great Britain: Thinking through Resistance in an Age of Global Empire; Antoinette Burton; Index.