Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Pender, Sebastian Raj (1982-....)
Titre(s) : The 1857 Indian uprising and the politics of commemoration [Texte imprimé] / Sebastian Raj Pender, ...
Publication : Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022
Description matérielle : xiii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
"The Cawnpore Well, Lucknow Residency, and Delhi Ridge were sacred places within the
British imagination of India. Sanctified by the colonial administration in commemoration
of victory over the 'Sepoy Mutiny of 1857', they were read as emblems of empire which
embodied the central tenets of sacrifice, fortitude, and military prowess that underpinned
Britain's imperial project in the late nineteenth century. So central were these locations
to British conceptions of India that Brigadier H. Bullock, head of the Graves and
Monuments Section of the British High Commission, could still note their overwhelming
significance as late as 1948. Writing specifically about the Cawnpore Well, Bullock
claimed that it was still seen as 'hallowed ground' and was 'one of the few things
in India that every Briton has heard of'. Whilst these sites acted as nodal points
within colonial discourse they have gradually been incorporated into India's national
story. The Lucknow Residency, for example, was designated a site of national importance
in a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of Indian Independence in 1972, during
which the Residency was 'declared to be saturated with the blood of the Indian Martyrs,
who had thus laid the First Foundation of the Freedom Fight, discounting the erstwhile
belief that it was reminiscent of British Glory'. Rededicated in honour of what is
now officially known in India as the First War of Independence, and thus sacred to
the memory of those who revolted against colonial rule, rather than those who saved
it, the Cawnpore Well, Lucknow Residency, and Delhi Ridge are today proud signifiers
of Indian nationalism"
Sujet(s) : Monuments commémoratifs militaires -- Inde
Identité collective -- Aspect politique -- Inde -- 1800-....
Inde -- 1857-1858 (Révolte des cipayes) -- Mémoire collective
Inde -- 1765-1947 (Occupation britannique) -- Opinion publique -- 1800-....
Indice(s) Dewey :
355.160 954 (23e éd.) = Célébrations et commémorations, monuments commémoratifs (science militaire) - Asie
du Sud Inde ; 954.035 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Inde - 1858-1947
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781316511336 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47274431k
Notice n° :
FRBNF47274431
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Meaning, Memory, Monument ; "Remember Cawnpore!": British Counterinsurgency and
the Memory of Massacre ; "Forget Cawnpore!": Commemorating the Mutiny, 1857-77 ;
Negotiating Fear: Celebration, Commemoration and the "Mutiny Pilgrimage" ; The Mutiny
of 1907: Anxiety and the Mutiny's Golden Jubilee ; The War of Indian Independence:
A Struggle for Meaning, Memory, and the Right to Narrate ; Remembering the Mutiny
at the End of Empire: 1947-1972 ; Celebrating the First War of Independence Today:
Caste, Gender, Religion ; Memories of the Present and Echoes of the Past.
