The insecurity state : Punjab and the making of colonial power in British India / Mark Condos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Condos, Mark, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism.

History.

Punjab (India)--Politics and government--19th century.

Punjab (India).

Punjab (India)--Politics and government--20th century.

Nationalism--India--Punjab--History.

Politics and government.

India--Punjab.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Punjab and the making of colonial power in British India

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"In this provocative new study, Mark Condos explores the 'dark underside' of the ideologies that sustained British rule in India. Using Punjab as a case study, he argues that India's colonial overlords were obsessively fearful, plagued by an unreasoning belief in their own vulnerability as rulers. These enduring anxieties precipitated, and justified, an all too frequent recourse to violence, joined with an insistence on untrammelled power placed in the hands of the executive. Examining how the British colonial experience was shaped by a chronic sense of unease, anxiety, and insecurity, this is a timely intervention in debates about the contested project of colonial state-building, the oppressive and violent practices of colonial rule, the nature of imperial sovereignty, law, and policing and the postcolonial legacies of empire" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Fear, panic, and the violence of empire

Colonial insecurity in early British India, 1757-1857

Re-assessing the 'garrison state': pacification and colonial disquiet in Punjab

Law, the Punjab school, and the 'Kooka outbreak' of 1872

Frontier terror and the murderous outrages act of 1867

Imperial recruiting and imperial anxieties, 1870-1920

Conclusion: Colonial vulnerability and the insecurity of empire

Epilogue : the insecurity state today.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108418317

1108418317

OCLC:

982091973