Tickell, Alex
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Abstract
This paper examines the politics of commemoration in colonial India, and the notorious massacres of Europeans at Cawnpore (and subsequent reprisals) during the 1857 rebellion. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben’s work I suggest that changing colonial practices of Mutiny remebrance reveal the organising logic of colonial sovereignty, as it negotiates the transition from the exceptional (potentially scandalous) violence of counter-insurgency to the sovereign paradigm of the rule of law. I conclude by examining Kipling’s journalism on the 1857 rebellion, and tracing the persistence of ‘mournful’ tropes of social exclusion and ritualised banning (as charivari) in his short fictions.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2009 Manchester University Press |
| ISSN: | 0306-1973 |
| Keywords: | 1857 Mutiny; Charivari; Rudyard Kipling; rebellion; colonial India; Cawnpore; Kanpur; commemoration |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Art History, Classical Studies, English and Creative Writing, Music Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) |
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| Item ID: | 28734 |
| Depositing User: | Alex Tickell |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jan 2012 15:10 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Aug 2016 12:49 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/28734 |
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