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Ireland and India : Nationalism, Empire and Memory / by M. Silvestri.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silvestri, Michael, 1966-
- Series:
- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, 2635-1641
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--History.
- Great Britain.
- Ethnology--Asia.
- Ethnology.
- Culture.
- World politics.
- Asia--History.
- Asia.
- History, Modern.
- History of Britain and Ireland.
- Asian Culture.
- Political History.
- Asian History.
- Modern History.
- History of South Asia.
- Local Subjects:
- History of Britain and Ireland.
- Asian Culture.
- Political History.
- Asian History.
- Modern History.
- History of South Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 298 pages, [15] pages of plates) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2009.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Through a consideration of historical memory, commemoration and the 'imagined communities' of nationalism, Ireland and India examines three aspects of Ireland's imperial history: relationships between Irish and Indian nationalists, the construction of Irishmen as imperial heroes, and the commemoration of an Irish regiment's mutiny in India.
- Contents:
- 'An assertion of liberty incarnate' : Irish and Indian nationalists in North America
- 'The Sinn Fein of India' : the reception of Irish revolutionary nationalism in Bengal
- 'Lord and Master Nikkal Seyn' : the construction of John Nicholson as a British imperial hero
- An 'Irish Paladin' : John Nicholson as an Ulster and Irish imperial hero
- 'The remains of Ireland's loneliest martyr' : the commemoration of the Connaught Rangers mutiny
- 'Enemies of the Empire'? : the imperial context of the Connaught Rangers mutiny.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-287) and index.
- Other Format:
- Printed edition:
- ISBN:
- 9786612672439
- 9781282672437
- 1282672436
- 9780230246812
- 0230246818
- OCLC:
- 650307430
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