| The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination Contributor(s): Chakravarty, Gautam (Author), Gautam, Chakravarty (Author), Beer, Gillian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521832748 ISBN-13: 9780521832748 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $121.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2005 Annotation: Gautam Chakravarty 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. The book has a broad interdisciplinary appeal. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Reference | Bibliographies & Indexes |
| Dewey: 823.809 |
| LCCN: 2003055897 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.22 lbs) 260 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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Contributor Bio(s): Chakravarty, Gautam: - Gautam Chakravarty is Reader in the Department of English at the University of Delhi. He is the translator of Jibananananda Das, Short Fiction, 1931-1933 (2001), and has recently translated Kapalakundala by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (2003). |