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: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780230216747
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 (p. 272-287) and index.
Table of contents: title: 'An assertion of liberty incarnate' : Irish and Indian nationalists in North America; title: 'The  Sinn Féin of India' : the reception of Irish revolutionary nationalism in Bengal; title: 'Lord and Master Nikkal Seyn' : the construction of John Nicholson as a British imperial hero; title: An 'Irish Paladin' : John Nicholson as an Ulster and Irish imperial hero; title: 'The remains of Ireland's loneliest martyr' : the commemoration of the Connaught Rangers mutiny; title: 'Enemies of the Empire'? : the imperial context of the Connaught Rangers mutiny.