By Gautam Chakravarty
Gautam Chakravarty explores representations of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 in British renowned fiction and historiography and in the wider context of British involvement in India. Drawing on diaries, autobiographies and nation papers, Chakravarty demonstrates how narratives of the uprising have been inflected by way of the troubles of colonial coverage and the calls for of imperial self-image. The booklet has a wide interdisciplinary attraction.
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The presence of these deliberative devices warrant the claim that it is useful to read British historiography of the rebellion as part of a mammoth discursive venture that began in the third quarter of the eighteenth century, a wide-ranging discursive project that gradually produced a historiography of India. It will take another book to explore the genealogy and the long-term consequences of this project not only for colonial knowledge of India, but also for nationalist and contemporary historiography.
F. Lee and Captain F. W. Radcliffe coauthored The Indian Mutiny up to the Relief of Lucknow, which may have preceded Malleson’s anonymous pamphlet, and Thomas Frost edited the Complete Narrative of the Mutiny in India from its Commencement to the Present Time. More substantive accounts appeared from 1859, notably the History of the Indian Mutiny by Charles Ball, the Chambers History of the Indian Revolt, E. H. 2 Published within two or three years of the rebellion, these comprehensive accounts of events and causes sometimes appended the two rebellious years to a narrative that began with the Macedonian invasion of north-west India in the third century bce.
44 But if this suggests homogeneity in the new channels of public opinion, there were simultaneously often muted articulations of dissent, sceptical of the benefits of war and expansion, fearful of the consequences of militarism for the British economy and civil society, and for dependent societies, of the curtailment of liberty under despotic imperial rule. Dissent appears from several quarters. 45 Other sources of dissent were more fundamental, and though often making a distinction between settler dominions and India, these views centred on a discomfort with ruling other people, and with the revenue burden of supporting the colonial and war machinery.
