{"product_id":"terrorism-insurgency-and-indian-english-literature-1830-1948","title":"Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature, 1830-1947","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study of terrorism, insurgency and the literature of colonial India, Alex Tickell re-envisages the political aesthetics of empire. Organized around key crisis moments in the history of British colonial rule such as the ‘Black Hole’ of Calcutta, the anti-thug campaigns of the 1830s, the 1857 Rebellion, anti-colonial terrorism in Edwardian London and the Amritsar massacre in 1919, this timely book reveals how the terrorizing threat of violence mutually defined discursive relations between colonizer and colonized. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on original research and drawing on theoretical work on sovereignty and the exception, this book examines Indian-English literary traditions in transaction and covers fiction and journalism by both colonial and Indian authors. It includes critical readings of several significant early Indian works for the first time: from neglected fictions such as Kylas Chunder Dutt’s story of anticolonial rebellion \u003cem\u003eA Journal of Forty-Eight Hours of the Year 1945\u003c\/em\u003e (1835) and Sarath Kumar Ghosh’s nationalist epic \u003cem\u003eThe Prince of Destiny\u003c\/em\u003e (1909) to dissident periodicals like Hurrish Chunder Mookerji’s \u003cem\u003eHindoo Patriot\u003c\/em\u003e (1856–66) and Shyamaji Krishnavarma’s \u003cem\u003eIndian Sociologist\u003c\/em\u003e (1905–14). These are read alongside canonical works by metropolitan and ‘Anglo-Indian’ authors such as Philip Meadows Taylor’s \u003cem\u003eConfessions of a Thug\u003c\/em\u003e (1839), Rudyard Kipling’s short fictions, and novels by Edmund Candler and E. M. Forster. Reflecting on the wider cross-cultural politics of terror during the Indian independence struggle, Tickell also reappraises sacrificial violence in Indian revolutionary nationalism and locates Gandhi’s philosophy of \u003cem\u003eahimsa \u003c\/em\u003eor non-violence as an inspired tactical response to the terror-effects of colonial rule.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54255312961880,"sku":"9780415877152","price":198.4,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415877152.jpg?v=1770154223","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/terrorism-insurgency-and-indian-english-literature-1830-1948","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}