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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Partha Chatterjee |
| ISBN: | 9780691152004 0691152004 9780691152011 0691152012 |
| OCLC Number: | 742234372 |
| Awards: | Short-listed for "HistoryToday"'s Books of the Year by Chandak Sengoopta 2013 |
| Description: | xiv, 425 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Outrage in Calcutta -- The Travels of a Monument -- Old Fort William -- A New Nawab -- The Fall of Calcutta -- The Aftermath of Defeat -- The "Genuine" Narrative -- Reconquest and More -- Whose Revolution? -- Chapter 2. A Secret Veil -- The Conquest in History -- The Age of Plunder -- Early Histories of Conquest -- The Modem State and Modem Empires -- The Nabobs Come Home -- The Critique of Conquest -- Chapter 3. Tipus Tiger -- A Bengali in Britain -- Contemporary Indian Histories -- The Early Modern in South Asia -- The Early Modern as a Category of Transition -- Niti versus Dharma -- An Early Modern History of Bengal -- Tipu as an Early Modern Absolute Monarch -- The Tiger of Mysore -- The Mysore Family in Calcutta -- Chapter 4. Liberty of the Subject -- The New Fort William -- The Early Press in Calcutta -- The Strength of Constitution -- The Making of Early Modern Citizens -- Other Early Modern Institutions -- Chapter 5. Equality of Subjects -- The Falsehood of All Religions -- The Colonization of Barbarous Countries -- Citizens of Character and Capital -- The Unsung End of Early Modernity -- Chapter 6. For the Happiness of Mankind -- The Founding of a Myth -- The Utility of Empire -- The Morality of Empire -- The Myth Refurbished -- Chapter 7. The Pedagogy of Violence -- The Law of Nations in the East -- Dalhousie and Paramountcy -- Awadh under British Protection -- The Road to Annexation -- Awadh Annexed -- Imperialism: Liberal and Antiliberal -- A Chimerical Lucknow -- Chapter 8. The Pedagogy of Culture -- The Contradictions of Colonial Modernity -- The City and the Public -- The New Bengali Theater -- Shedding a Tear for Siraj -- On the Poetic and Historical Imaginations -- Siraj and the National-Popular -- The Dramatic Form of the National-Popular -- Surveillance and Proscription -- Chapter 9. Bombs, Sovereignty, and Football -- The New Memorial -- The Scramble for Empire -- The Normalization of the, Nation-State -- Violence and the Motherland -- Early Actions -- Strategies and Tactics -- Igniting the Imagination -- Football as a Manly Sport -- Football and Nationalism -- Official Responses -- The Later Phase -- Chapter 10. The Death and Everlasting Life of Empire -- A Gigantic Hoax -- We Are Kings of the Country, and the Rest Are Slaves -- Siraj, Once More on Stage -- Endgames of Empire -- Empire Today -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
| Responsibility: | Partha Chatterjee. |
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One of HistoryToday's Books of the Year 2013, chosen by Chandak Sengoopta "[H]ighly insightful, at times quite brilliant."--David Washbrook, Times Literary Supplement "Chock-full of mini topics and discursive asides, and illustrated with a number of photographs and illustrations, this book is required reading for the genre."--Choice "The Black Hole of Empire is his most ambitious book yet. Challenging existing understandings, reinterpreting the meaning of well-known events, and displaying an authoritative knowledge of an astonishing range of scholarly literature, we encounter a historian at the top of his game."--Gyan Prakash, 3QuarksDaily "[S]timulating and original... In following a trail from history as once every British schoolboy learnt it, Chatterjee illuminates one of the pressing issues of international relations today."--William Crawley, BBC Northern Ireland "[T]he scope, depth, and reach of The Black Hole of Empire is an achievement that is difficult to match... The Black Hole of Empire is, in all its richness or argument and historical detail, a book that no anthropologist, historian, or political theorist of empire can afford to miss."--Peter Pels, Current Anthropology "[T]he book is so richly detailed and so thoughtfully argued that it can serve as the perfect introduction to the history of British India and, indeed, of imperialism itself."--Chandak Sengoopta, History Today Read more...
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