Ireland and India [electronic resource] : nationalism, empire and memory / Michael Silvestri.

"This book examines the imaginative dimension of Irish-Indian imperial connections in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries by considering the relationships between Irish and Indian nationalists, the construction of Irishmen as British imperial heroes, and Irish nationalist commemoration...

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Main Author: Silvestri, Michael, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Series:Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
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Table of Contents:
  • 'An assertion of liberty incarnate' : Irish and Indian nationalists in North America
  • 'The Sinn Féin of India' : the reception of Irish revolutionary nationalism in Bengal
  • 'Lord and Master Nikkal Seyn' : 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 Ireland's loneliest martyr' : the commemoration of the Connaught Rangers mutiny
  • 'Enemies of the Empire'? : the imperial context of the Connaught Rangers mutiny.