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Book SynopsisRehana Ahmed is Lecturer in English Studies at Teesside University, UK. She specialises in postcolonial literature.
Sumita Mukherjee is an historian of South Asia and the British Empire. She is the author of
Nationalism, Education and Migrant Identities: The England-Returned (2009).
Trade ReviewThis fine volume engagingly reveals the experiences and aspirations of diverse South Asian men and women who lived and worked in Britain during the British Raj. Highlighting the varied nature of Asian resistance to racism and other forms of oppression, the editors and contributors present us with the latest insights and developments of the field. -- Michael H. Fisher, Danforth Professor of History, Oberlin College, US
All of the essays in this volume are thoroughly scholarly, well-written, and fascinating. They combine fresh and deep archival research with a clearly articulated analysis of their significance in the light of contemporary (then and now) contexts, and the book as a whole brings a significant new understanding of how various individuals, classes, and groups creatively and productively resisted British imperial culture and politics...This volume is an important intervention in historical and cultural scholarship about Britain and postcolonial studies. -- Lyn Innes, Emeritus Professor of Postcolonial Literatures, University of Kent, UK
Table of Contents1. Introduction (Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee); 2. 'Horrorism' in the heart of empire: theorising violence as anti-colonial resistance at India House 1905-1909 (Alex Tickell); 3. The Caxton Hall assassination of Michael O'Dwyer (Florian Stadtler); 4. Censorship and the Indian soldiers in Britain during the First World War (Prabhjot Parmar); 5. Littoral struggles, liminal lives - Indian merchant seamen's resistances (Georgie Wemyss); 6. Ghulam Rasul's travels - migration, recolonization and resistance in inter-war Britain (Laura Tabili); 7. Class, cosmopolitanism and narratives of resistance - the Irish League and its East End branch (Rehana Ahmed); 8. Indo-Irish resistances in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s (Kate O'Malley); 9. Herabai Tata and Sophia Duleep Singh - suffragette resistances for India and Britain 1910-1920 (Sumita Mukherjee); 10. Royal relationships as avenues of social resistance - the case of Duleep Singh and Abdul Karim (A. Martin Wainwright); 11. Epilogue (Antoinette Burton).
