Ireland and India : nationalism, empire and memory / Michael Silvestri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silvestri, Michael, 1966-

Series:

Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Army. Connaught Rangers.

History.

Irish.

Relations.

Ireland--Relations--India.

Ireland.

India--Relations--Ireland.

India.

Irish--India--Attitudes--History--19th century.

Irish--India--Attitudes--History--20th century.

Nationalism--Ireland--History.

Nationalism.

Nationalism--India--History.

Jullundur Mutiny, 1920.

Great Britain. Army. Connaught Rangers--History.

Great Britain.

India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.

Physical Description:

xii, 298 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

"This book examines the imaginative dimension of Irish-Indian imperial connections in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries by considerating the relationships between Irish and Indian nationalists, the construction of Irishmen as British imperial heroes, and Irish nationalist commemoration of the mutiny of a regiment of Irish soldiers in India"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 'An Assertion of Liberty Incarnate': Irish and Indian Nationalists in North America 13

2 'The Sinn Fein of India': The Reception of Irish Revolutionary Nationalism in Bengal 46

3 'Lord and Master Nikkal Seyn': The Construction of John Nicholson as a British Imperial Hero 76

4 An 'Irish Paladin': John Nicholson as an Ulster and Irish Imperial Hero 113

5 'The Remains of Ireland's Loneliest Martyr': The Commemoration of the Connaught Rangers Mutiny 139

6 'Enemies of the Empire? The Imperial Context of the Connaught Rangers Mutiny 176.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230216747

0230216749

OCLC:

459211083