| 书目名称 | The Return of the Mughal: Historical Fiction and Despotism in Colonial India, 1863–1908 | | 编辑 | Alex Padamsee | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Connects the rise of the historical novel about India’s Mughal past to key moments of British imperial consolidation over the Indian territory.Looks at the literary history of Mughal sovereignty in Br | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This Pivot explores the uses of the Mughal past in the historical fiction of colonial India. Through detailed reconsiderations of canonical works by Rudyard Kipling, Flora Annie Steel and Romesh Chunder Dutt, the author argues for a more complex and integral understanding of the part played by the Mughal imaginary in colonial and early Indian nationalist projections of sovereignty. Evoking the rich historical and transnational contexts of these literary narratives, the study demonstrates the ways in which, at successive moments of crisis and contestation in the later Raj, the British Indian state continued to be troubled by its early and profound investments in models of despotism first located by colonial administrators in the figure of the Mughal emperor. At the heart of these political fictions lay the issue of territoriality and the founding problem of a British claim to sole proprietorship of Indian land – a form of Orientalist exceptionalism that at once underpinned and could never fully be integrated with the colonial rule of law. Alongside its recovery of a wealth of popular and often overlooked colonial historiography, .The Return of the Mughal. emphasises the relevance of | | 出版日期 | Book 2018 | | 关键词 | Mughal empire; Indian historical fiction; Rudyard Kipling; Colonial India; Hindu nationalism; Colonial la | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-35494-5 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-137-35494-5 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 |
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