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Ireland and India : Nationalism, Empire and Memory / by M. Silvestri.

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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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