historical fiction and despotism in colonial India, 1863-1908 /
نام نخستين پديدآور
Alex Padamsee.
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
London :
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Palgrave Macmillan,
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2018.
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
1 online resource
فروست
عنوان فروست
Palgrave pivot
یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references and index.
یادداشتهای مربوط به مندرجات
متن يادداشت
1. Introduction -- 2. The devil's sovereignty: plagiarism and political theology in Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King -- 3. Flora Annie Steel and the jurisprudence of emergency -- 4. Time and the nation: Mughals, Maine and modernities in Romesh Chunder Dutt's historical fiction -- 5. Conclusion.
بدون عنوان
0
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
This Pivot explores the uses of the Mughal past in the historical fiction of colonial India. Through detailed reconsiderations of canonical works by Rudyard Kipling, Flora Annie Steel and Romesh Chunder Dutt, the author argues for a more complex and integral understanding of the part played by the Mughal imaginary in colonial and early Indian nationalist projections of sovereignty. Evoking the rich historical and transnational contexts of these literary narratives, the study demonstrates the ways in which, at successive moments of crisis and contestation in the later Raj, the British Indian state continued to be troubled by its early and profound investments in models of despotism first located by colonial administrators in the figure of the Mughal emperor. At the heart of these political fictions lay the issue of territoriality and the founding problem of a British claim to sole proprietorship of Indian land - a form of Orientalist exceptionalism that at once underpinned and could never fully be integrated with the colonial rule of law. Alongside its recovery of a wealth of popular and often overlooked colonial historiography, The Return of the Mughal emphasises the relevance of theories of political theology - from Carl Schmitt and Ernst Kantorowicz to Talal Asad and Giorgio Agamben - to our understanding of the fictional and jurisprudential histories of colonialism. This study aims to show just how closely the pageantry and romance of empire in India connects to its early politics of terror and even today continues to inform the figure of the Mughal in the sectarian politics of Hindu Nationalism.
یادداشتهای مربوط به سفارشات
منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک
Springer Nature
شماره انبار
com.springer.onix.9781137354945
ویراست دیگر از اثر در قالب دیگر رسانه
شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي
9781137354938
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Commonwealth fiction (English)-- History and criticism.
موضوع مستند نشده
Historical fiction, Indic (English)-- History and criticism.
موضوع مستند نشده
Imperialism in literature.
موضوع مستند نشده
Colonial influence.
موضوع مستند نشده
HISTORY-- Asia-- India & South Asia.
موضوع مستند نشده
Imperialism in literature.
موضوع مستند نشده
Politics and government.
نام جغرافیایی به منزله موضوع
موضوع مستند نشده
India, History, 1526-1765, In literature.
موضوع مستند نشده
India.
بدون عنوان
0
بدون عنوان
7
مقوله موضوعی
موضوع مستند نشده
HIS-- 017000
رده بندی ديویی
شماره
954
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03
ويراست
23
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
PR9080
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )