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.
| ISBN | 1441117563 | | Pages | 208 | | ISBN13 | 9781441117564
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 340 | | Publisher | Continuum Publishing Corporation | | Published in | New York | | Imprint | Continuum Publishing Corporation | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Publication date | 22 Dec 2011 | | Spine width (mm) | 15 | | DEWEY | 941.00495 | | Academic level | Undergraduate | | DEWEY edition | DC23 | |
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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).
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.--,
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