The 1857 Indian Uprising and the British Empire

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Situating the 1857 Indian uprising within an imperial context, Jill C. Bender traces its ramifications across the four different colonial sites of Ireland, New Zealand, Jamaica, and southern Africa. Bender argues that the 1857 uprising shaped colonial Britons' perceptions of their own empire, r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bender, Jill C.
Format: Printed Book
Published: New Delhi CUP 2017
Subjects:
HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
Indien
Kolonialismus.
Kolonie.
Rückwirkung.
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