Representing rebellion : visual aspects of counter-insurgency in colonial India / Daniel J. Rycroft.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rycroft, Daniel J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Santal (South Asian people)--Politics and government.

Santal (South Asian people).

India--Politics and government--19th century.

India.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xix, 321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Contribution of Santal, South Asian people in the freedom struggle against British rule in India; covers the period, 1845-1856; study based on pictorial representations.

Contents:

1 Economic Geology 17

1.1 Sherwill and the Asiatic Society of Bengal 18

1.2 Sherwill and Visuality 24

1.3 Sherwill and Authority 30

1.4 Sherwill and the Colonial Exhibitionary Complex 38

2 The Colonial Exhibitionary Complex 53

2.1 'Indian Ivory Carvings for the Great Exhibition' 55

2.2 The Illustrated London News and Representations of India 60

2.3 Sherwill and the Great Exhibition of 1851 73

3 Sherwill and the Construction of Santhal Identity before the Hul 93

3.1 The Revenue Survey and Subaltern Resistance to Representation 95

3.2 Administrative Context of 'Notes upon a Tour' 99

3.3 Constructions of 'Sonthals', Manjhis, and Markets 102

3.3.i 'Hill Men' and Manjhis 109

3.3.ii Santhal Dances, Sundari Kulan, and the Markets of the Damin 115

3.4 'Railway from Calcutta to Delhi' 119

3.4.i Presenting Colonialism 120

3.4.ii Intertextual Reading of 'Sonthal Dance' and 'Bear-Shooting' 127

4 The 'Ceylon Insurrection' 145

4.1 The Counter-insurgency Complex 146

4.2 Contesting Histories and Historiographies 150

4.3 Reading between Public Discourses 157

4.3.i Discursive Terms 157

4.3.ii 'Ceylon, and Lord Torrington's Administration' and the Calcutta Review 159

4.4 The 'Ceylon Insurrection' and the Illustrated London News 167

4.4.ii 'The Ceylon Inquiry' 170

4.4.iii 'The Late Insurrection in Ceylon' 172

4.4.iv 'The New Governor of Ceylon' 185

4.4.v 'Lord Torrington' and 'The Insurrection in Ceylon' 187

4.4.vi 'Sketches in Ceylon' and 'Idolatrous Festival' 192

5 The 'Santhal Insurrection' 205

5.1 'The Banyan Tree': The Artisan Intellect of William Linton 211

5.2 Sherwill, the Hul, and the Counter-insurgency of 1855-6 218

5.2.i 'Inundations in India' 219

5.2.ii The Hul and the Counter-insurgency of 1855-6 223

5.3 Reporting the 'Santhal Insurrection' 231

5.3.i The Cultural Imaginary 231

5.3.ii The Santhal Counter-insurgency Complex 233

5.3.iii Textual Narrativization of the Hul 241

5.3.iv Visual Historiography of the Hul and the Illustrated London News 253

6 Conclusion: Sherwill and Colonial Discourse 288.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [298]-312) and index.

ISBN:

0195675894

9780195675894

OCLC:

64446042

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