Amritsar and Our Duty to India
Author: Benjamin Guy Horniman
Publisher: London : T. Fisher Unwin
Published: 1920
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13:
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The Butcher of Amritsar
Author: Nigel Collett
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2006-10-15
Total Pages: 614
ISBN-13: 9781852855758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn 13 April 1919, General Reginald Dyer marched a squad of Indian soldiers into the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, and opened fire without warning on a crowd gathered to hear political speeches. This is an account of the massacre set in the context of a biography of a man whose attitudes reflected many of the views common in the Raj.
The Amritsar Massacre
Author: Nick Lloyd
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-09-27
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 0857730770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn 13 April 1919, a fateful event took place which was to define the last decades of the British Raj in India. At 5:10pm on that day, Brigadier-General 'Rex' Dyer led a small party of soldiers through the centre of Amritsar into a walled garden known as the Jallianwala Bagh. He had been informed that an illegal political meeting was taking place and had come to disperse it. On entering the garden, Dyer's men immediately lined up in formation. Dyer then gave the order to open fire on the huge crowd that had gathered there. 379 people were killed and at least 1,000 more were wounded in what has became known as the Amritsar Massacre. Nick Lloyd here provides a highly readable, but detailed account of the most infamous British atrocity in the entire history of the Raj. He considers the massacre in its historical context, but also describes its impact in uniting the people of the sub-continent against their colonial rulers. The book dispels common myths and misconceptions surrounding the massacre and offers a new explanation of the decisions taken in 1919. Ultimately, it seeks to examine whether the massacre was an unfortunate and tragic mistake or a case of cold-blooded murder, and one which would fatally weaken the British position in India.
Photography's Orientalism
Author: Ali Behdad
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1606061518
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This volume evolved from "Zoom out: the making and the unmaking of the 'Orient' through photography," held at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, May 6-7, 2010"--ECIP data view.
Media and Utopia
Author: Arvind Rajagopal
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 1351558706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollective political projects have become ephemeral and are subject to radical forms of erasure through cooptation, division, redefinition or intimidation in present times. Media and Utopia responds to the resulting crisis of the social by investigating the links between mediation and political imagination. This volume addresses those utopian spaces historically constituted through media, and analyses the conditions that made them possible. Individual essays deal with non-Western histories of technopolitics through distinctive perspectives on how to conceive the relationship between social form, everyday life, and utopian possibility, and by examining a range of media formats and genres from print, sound, and film to new media. With contributions from major scholars in the field, this book will be of interest to researchers and scholars of media studies, culture studies, sociology, modern South Asian history, and politics.
Imperial Violence and the Path to Independence
Author: Shereen Ilahi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-06-03
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 085772911X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the aftermath of World War I, the British Empire was hit by two different crises on opposite sides of the world--the Jallianwala Bagh, or Amritsar, Massacre in the Punjab and the Croke Park Massacre, the first 'Bloody Sunday', in Ireland. This book provides a study at the cutting edge of British imperial historiography, concentrating on British imperial violence and the concept of collective punishment. This was the 'crisis of empire' following the political and ideological watershed of World War I. The British Empire had reached its greatest geographical extent, appeared powerful, liberal, humane and broadly sympathetic to gradual progress to responsible self-government. Yet the empire was faced with existential threats to its survival with demands for decolonisation, especially in India and Ireland, growing anti-imperialism at home, virtual bankruptcy and domestic social and economic unrest. Providing an original and closely-researched analysis of imperial violence in the aftermath of World War I, this book will be essential reading for historians of empire, South Asia and Ireland.
Punjab, the Crucial Decade
Author: Subash Chander Sharma
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distri
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
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The Insecurity State
Author: Mark Condos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-08-03
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1108667651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this provocative new work, Mark Condos explores the 'dark underside' of the ideologies that sustained British rule in India. Using Punjab as a case study, he argues that India's colonial overlords were obsessively fearful, and plagued by an unreasoning belief in their own vulnerability as rulers. These enduring anxieties precipitated, and justified, an all too frequent recourse to violence, joined with an insistence on untrammelled power placed in the hands of the executive. Examining how the British colonial experience was shaped by a chronic sense of unease, anxiety, and insecurity, this is a timely intervention in debates about the contested project of colonial state-building, the oppressive and violent practices of colonial rule, the nature of imperial sovereignty, law, and policing and the postcolonial legacies of empire.
