Title The 1857 Indian Uprising and the Politics of Commemoration

Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (270 pages) Contents Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Meaning, Memory, and Monument -- Meaning, Memory, and Monument: Commemoration and Collective Memory -- 1 'Remember Cawnpore!': British Counter-insurgency and the Memory of Massacre -- Initial Reports of Mutiny and the British Imagination -- Initial Reaction in Britain -- A Tale of Two Cities: Lucknow and Cawnpore -- 'Remember Cawnpore!': Cawnpore and Counter-insurgency Commemoration, Celebration, and Trepidation: Lucknow and Delhi -- 2 'Forget Cawnpore!': Commemorating the Mutiny, 1857-1877 -- Commemoration and Reconciliation: Remembering to Forget -- Remembering and Forgetting Cawnpore: Negotiating the Horrors -- Bibighar and Bloodshed -- The Angel of the Resurrection -- Horror in Lucknow -- Remembering British Heroes and Celebrating Native Loyalty -- Reconciliation and the Stain of the Forgotten -- 3 Negotiating Fear: Celebration, Commemoration, and the 'Mutiny Pilgrimage' -- Commemoration, Celebration, and Reassurance -- The Mutiny Tour Celebration and Self Assurance on the Mutiny Tour -- Terror and Anxiety on the Mutiny Tour -- Fear and Loathing in Cawnpore -- 4 The Mutiny of 1907: Anxiety and the Mutiny's Golden Jubilee -- Partition, Punjab, and Political Unrest -- The Mutiny of 1907 in Britain -- Formal Commemoration and the Celebration of the Mutiny Jubilee -- Formal Commemoration and a Commitment to Empire -- 5 The War of Indian Independence: A Struggle for Meaning, Memory, and the Right to Narrate -- Subversion, Sedition, and Vandalism -- A Struggle for Memory and the Mutiny's Jubilee Year The Struggle for Memory and Mutiny Monuments -- Counter Commemoration and the Growth of Nationalist Memory -- 6 Remembering the Mutiny at the End of Empire: 1947-1972 -- Mutiny Monuments: The Politics of Contestation and Relocation -- The Mutiny's Centenary: A Struggle for Meaning, Memory, and the Right to Narrate -- 7 Celebrating the First War of Independence Today: Caste, Gender, and Religion -- 2017 and the Politics of Commemoration: Identity, Aspiration, and Assertion -- Dalit Assertion and Electoral Strategy: The Emergence of Uda Devi (Pasi) Grassroots Pasi Activism and What It Means to Commemorate Uda Devi -- Uda Devi and the Fight for Female Empowerment -- Contested Nationalisms: Maharani Lakshmibai Nyas and Hindu Rashtra -- Contested Nationalisms: 1857 Rashtravaadi Manch and Communal Unity -- 1857 and the Politics of Commemoration -- Conclusion: Memories of the Present and Echoes of the Past -- Bibliography -- Manuscript Sources -- British Library, London, the Oriental and India Office Collections -- Centre of South Asian Studies Archive, University of Cambridge -- Imperial War Museum, London Summary An innovative study using the commemoration of 1857 as a prism through which to explore 150 years of Indian history Notes Lidell Hart Military Archives, Kings College London Print version record Subject War memorials -- India -- History Collective memory -- India -- History -- 21st century Public opinion -- India Anniversaries British colonies Collective memory Politics and government -- Public opinion Public opinion War memorials SUBJECT Lucknow (India) -- History -- Siege, 1857 -- Anniversaries, etc Great Britain -- Colonies -- Public opinion -- History India -- History -- Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858 -- Anniversaries, etc India -- Politics and government -- 1765-1947 -- Public opinion Subject India India -- Lucknow Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781009059459 1009059459

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