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South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858 - 1947 Dr Sumita Mukherjee

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858 - 1947 By Dr Sumita Mukherjee

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858 - 1947 by Dr Sumita Mukherjee

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Offers a way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1870 to 1950, before their more permanent migration and settlement.

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858 - 1947 Summary

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858 - 1947 by Dr Sumita Mukherjee

This title offers an alternative view of imperial history, exploring the pioneering ways in which South Asians within Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism. This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1870 to 1950, before their more permanent migration and settlement. This book focuses on a tumultuous period of resistance against the backdrop of high imperialism under the reign of Victoria in the 1870s, through the turmoil of two World Wars and Partition in 1947. As well as addressing resistances against empire and hierarchies of race, the authors investigate how South Asians in Britain mobilized to campaign for women's suffrage (the Indian princess Sophia Duleep Singh), for example, or for an international socialism (the Communist MP Shapurji Saklatvala), thereby contributing to and complicating notions of freedom, equality and justice. This volume reframes these pioneers as social and political agents and activists and shows how Britain's contemporary multicultural society is rooted in their mobilization for equality of citizenship.

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858 - 1947 Reviews

This fine volume engagingly reveals the experiences and aspirations of diverse South Asian men and women who lived and worked in Britain during the British Raj. Highlighting the varied nature of Asian resistance to racism and other forms of oppression, the editors and contributors present us with the latest insights and developments of the field. -- Michael H. Fisher, Danforth Professor of History, Oberlin College, US
All of the essays in this volume are thoroughly scholarly, well-written, and fascinating. They combine fresh and deep archival research with a clearly articulated analysis of their significance in the light of contemporary (then and now) contexts, and the book as a whole brings a significant new understanding of how various individuals, classes, and groups creatively and productively resisted British imperial culture and politics...This volume is an important intervention in historical and cultural scholarship about Britain and postcolonial studies. -- Lyn Innes, Emeritus Professor of Postcolonial Literatures, University of Kent, UK

About Dr Sumita Mukherjee

Sumita Mukherjee is a historian of South Asia and the British Empire. She is a post-doctoral researcher at Oxford University, UK, where she received her doctorate. She is the author of Nationalism, Education and Migrant Identities: The England-Returned (Routledge 2009) Rehana Ahmed is a specialist in contemporary and twentieth century British Asian and South Asian literature and culture. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Open University, UK, and is the editor of the volume Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain (Macmillan 2004)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction (Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee); 2. 'Horrorism' in the heart of empire: theorising violence as anti-colonial resistance at India House 1905-1909 (Alex Tickell); 3. The Caxton Hall assassination of Michael O'Dwyer (Florian Stadtler); 4. Censorship and the Indian soldiers in Britain during the First World War (Prabhjot Parmar); 5. Littoral struggles, liminal lives - Indian merchant seamen's resistances (Georgie Wemyss); 6. Ghulam Rasul's travels - migration, recolonization and resistance in inter-war Britain (Laura Tabili); 7. Class, cosmopolitanism and narratives of resistance - the Irish League and its East End branch (Rehana Ahmed); 8. Indo-Irish resistances in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s (Kate O'Malley); 9. Herabai Tata and Sophia Duleep Singh - suffragette resistances for India and Britain 1910-1920 (Sumita Mukherjee); 10. Royal relationships as avenues of social resistance - the case of Duleep Singh and Abdul Karim (A. Martin Wainwright); 11. Epilogue (Antoinette Burton).

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GOR007493828
9781441117564
1441117563
South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858 - 1947 by Dr Sumita Mukherjee
Dr Sumita Mukherjee
Used - Very Good
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Continuum Publishing Corporation
2012-02-23
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