Ireland and India
Subtitle: nationalism, empire, and memory
By: Michael Silvestri.
Series: Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230216747
Subjects: Great Britain. -- Army. -- Connaught Rangers -- History; Irish -- India -- Attitudes -- History -- 19th century; Irish -- India -- Attitudes -- History -- 20th century; Nationalism -- Ireland -- History; Nationalism -- India -- History; Jullundur Mutiny, 1920; Ireland -- Relations -- India; India -- Relations -- Ireland; India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947
Description: "This book examines the imaginative dimension of Irish-Indian imperial connections in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries by considerating the relationships between Irish and Indian nationalists, the construction of Irishmen as British imperial heroes, and Irish nationalist commemoration of the mutiny of a regiment of Irish soldiers in India"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction * 'Implacable Foes of the British Empire?: Irish and Indian Nationalists in North America* The Sinn Fein of India: The Reception of Irish Revolutionary Nationalism in Bengal * The Paladin of the Frontier: The Construction of John Nicholson as a British Imperial Hero * An Irish Paladin: John Nicholson as an Ulster and Irish Imperial Hero * The Remains of Irelands Loneliest Martyr: The Commemoration of the Connaught Rangers Mutiny * Enemies of the Empire? The Imperial Context of the Connaught Rangers Mutiny * Conclusion Introduction * 'Implacable Foes of the British Empire?: Irish and Indian Nationalists in North America* The Sinn Fein of India: The Reception of Irish Revolutionary Nationalism in Bengal * The Paladin of the Frontier: The Construction of John Nicholson as a British Imperial Hero * An Irish Paladin: John Nicholson as an Ulster and Irish Imperial Hero * The Remains of Irelands Loneliest Martyr: The Commemoration of the Connaught Rangers Mutiny * Enemies of the Empire? The Imperial Context of the Connaught Rangers Mutiny * Conclusion.