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Auteur(s) : Chatterjee, Partha (1947-....)
Titre(s) : The black hole of empire [Texte imprimé] : history of a global practice of power / Partha Chatterjee
Publication : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012
Description matérielle : xiv, 425 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : List of Illustrations -- ; Preface --Chapter 1 ; Outrage in Calcutta -- ; The Travels
of a Monument -- ; Old Fort William -- ; A New Nawab -- ; The Fall of Calcutta --
; The Aftermath of Defeat -- ; The "Genuine" Narrative -- ; Reconquest and More --
; Whose Revolution? --Chapter 2 ; A Secret Veil -- ; The Conquest in History -- ;
The Age of Plunder -- ; Early Histories of Conquest -- ; The Modem State and Modem
Empires -- ; The Nabobs Come Home -- ; The Critique of Conquest --Chapter 3 ; Tipus
Tiger -- ; A Bengali in Britain -- ; Contemporary Indian Histories -- ; The Early
Modern in South Asia -- ; The Early Modern as a Category of Transition -- ; Niti versus
Dharma -- ; An Early Modern History of Bengal -- ; Tipu as an Early Modern Absolute
Monarch -- ; The Tiger of Mysore -- ; The Mysore Family in Calcutta --Chapter 4 ;
Liberty of the Subject -- ; The New Fort William -- ; The Early Press in Calcutta
-- ; The Strength of Constitution -- ; The Making of Early Modern Citizens -- ; Other
Early Modern Institutions --Chapter 5 ; Equality of Subjects -- ; The Falsehood of
All Religions -- ; The Colonization of Barbarous Countries -- ; Citizens of Character
and Capital -- ; The Unsung End of Early Modernity --Chapter 6 ; For the Happiness
of Mankind -- ; The Founding of a Myth -- ; The Utility of Empire -- ; The Morality
of Empire -- ; The Myth Refurbished --Chapter 7 ; The Pedagogy of Violence -- ; The
Law of Nations in the East -- ; Dalhousie and Paramountcy -- ; Awadh under British
Protection -- ; The Road to Annexation -- ; Awadh Annexed -- ; Imperialism: Liberal
and Antiliberal -- ; A Chimerical Lucknow --Chapter 8 ; The Pedagogy of Culture --
; The Contradictions of Colonial Modernity -- ; The City and the Public -- ; The New
Bengali Theater -- ; Shedding a Tear for Siraj -- ; On the Poetic and Historical Imaginations
-- ; Siraj and the National-Popular -- ; The Dramatic Form of the National-Popular
-- ; Surveillance and Proscription --Chapter 9 ; Bombs, Sovereignty, and Football
-- ; The New Memorial -- ; The Scramble for Empire -- ; The Normalization of the,
Nation-State -- ; Violence and the Motherland -- ; Early Actions -- ; Strategies and
Tactics -- ; Igniting the Imagination -- ; Football as a Manly Sport -- ; Football
and Nationalism -- ; Official Responses -- ; The Later Phase --Chapter 10 ; The Death
and Everlasting Life of Empire -- ; A Gigantic Hoax -- ; We Are Kings of the Country,
and the Rest Are Slaves -- ; Siraj, Once More on Stage -- ; Endgames of Empire --
; Empire Today -- ; Afterword -- ; Notes -- ; References -- ; Index.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756,
he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison. Of the group,
123 died of suffocation. While this episode was never independently confirmed, the
story of "The black hole of Calcutta' was widely circulated and seen by the British
public as an atrocity committed by savage colonial subjects. "The Black Hole of Empire"
follows the ever-changing representations of this historical event and founding myth
of the British Empire in India, from the eighteenth century to the present. Partha
Chatterjee explores how a supposed tragedy paved the ideological foundations for the
civilizing force of British imperial rule and territorial control in India. Chatterjee
takes a close look at the justifications of modern empire by liberal thinkers, international
lawyers, and conservative traditionalists, and examines the intellectual and political
responses of the colonized, including those of Bengali nationalists. The two sides
of empire's entwined history are brought together in the story of the Black Hole memorial:
set up in Calcutta in 1760, demolished in 1821, restored by Lord Curzon in 1902, and
removed in 1940 to a neglected churchyard. Challenging conventional truisms of imperial
history, nationalist scholarship, and liberal visions of globalization, Chatterjee
argues that empire is a necessary and continuing part of the history of the modern
state
Sujet(s) : Impérialisme
Colonies
Épisode du Black Hole (Calcutta, Inde ; 1756)
Colonisation -- Bengale -- 18e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780691152004 (hardcover) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0691152004 (hardcover) (alk. paper).
- ISBN 9780691152011 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0691152012 (pbk.) (alk. paper)
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FRBNF42755574
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