The insecurity state : Punjab and the making of colonial power in British India /

"In this provocative new study, Mark Condos explores the 'dark underside' of the ideologies that sustained British rule in India. Using Punjab as a case study, he argues that India's colonial overlords were obsessively fearful, plagued by an unreasoning belief in their own vulner...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Condos, Mark (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Temas:
1800-1999
Nationalism > India > Punjab > History.
Nationalisme > Inde > Pendjab > Histoire.
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
Nationalism.
Politics and government.
Punjab (India) > Politics and government > 19th century.
Punjab (India) > Politics and government > 20th century.
India > Punjab.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : fear, panic, and the violence of empire
  • Colonial insecurity in early British India, 1757-1857
  • Re-assessing the 'garrison state': pacification and colonial disquiet in Punjab
  • Law, the Punjab school, and the 'Kooka outbreak' of 1872
  • Frontier terror and the murderous outrages act of 1867
  • Imperial recruiting and imperial anxieties, 1870-1920
  • Conclusion : colonial vulnerability and the insecurity of empire
  • Epilogue : the insecurity state today.

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