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The Indian Mutiny and the British imagination /
This book explores representations of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 in British popular fiction and historiography and within the wider context of British involvement in India. Drawing on diaries, autobiographies and state papers, Chakravarty demonstrates how narratives of the rebellion were inflected by...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
43. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book explores representations of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 in British popular fiction and historiography and within the wider context of British involvement in India. Drawing on diaries, autobiographies and state papers, Chakravarty demonstrates how narratives of the rebellion were inflected by the concerns of colonial policy and the demands of imperial self-image. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-236) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511081111 9780511081118 9780511484759 0511484755 9780511080357 0511080352 1280163437 9781280163432 9786610163434 661016343X 0511121660 9780511121661 0511196725 9780511196720 0511326661 9780511326660 |