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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Skull of Alum Bheg (edizione 2018)di Dr Kim A Wagner (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaThe Skull of Alum Bheg: The Life and Death of a Rebel of 1857 di Kim Wagner
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Starting with the discovery of a skull, and an attached note in a storage room of an English Pub, in 1963, we raders get an interesting description of how the English treated one grisly artifact, and an account of the Indian Mutiny of 1857. The skull had the name of the previous owner, a sepoy of the 46th Bengal Native Infantry, attached and thus Wagner assembled a description of the rising, its causes and effects on a fairly representative British Cantonment of the period. While the illustrations are adequate, I was quite disappointed in the maps. Overall, a good account of the Mutiny, and a study of some of the human costs of the rising upon the white community. The native side has some coverage, but I would have preferred more. A good read, over all. My copy was published in the USA by the Oxford University Press in 2018. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In 1963, a human skull was discovered in a pub in Kent in south-east England. A brief handwritten note stuck inside the cavity revealed it to be that of Alum Bheg, an Indian soldier in British service who was executed during the aftermath of the 1857 Uprising, or The Indian Mutiny as historians of an earlier era described it. Alum Bheg was blown from a cannon for having allegedly murdered British civilians, and his head was brought back as a grisly war-trophy by an Irish officer present at his execution. The skull is a troublesome relic of both anti- colonial violence and the brutality and spectacle of British retribution. Kim Wagner presents an intimate and vivid account of life and death in British India in the throes of the largest rebellion of the nineteenth century. Fugitive rebels spent months, even years, hiding in the vastness of the Himalayas before they were eventually hunted down and punished by a vengeful colonial state. Examining the colonial practice of collecting and exhibiting human remains, this book offers a critical assessment of British imperialism that speaks to contemporary debates about the legacies of Empire and the myth of the 'Mutiny'. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)954.0317History and Geography Asia India and South Asia 1785–1947 British rule 1785-1858 (East India Company) 1856-1862Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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That is the genesis of the book.
The subtitle – the life and death of a rebel – is misleading, because there is almost nothing about Alum Bheg in the book. This is not surprising, as the odds of finding any information about an obscure military person in the 19th century, are remote.
He pronounces Alum Bheg as innocent of murder, and assumes that the man was caught up in the event of the times, before being blown up by a cannon.
Much of the ground has been covered, yet it is interesting to read what Kim Wagner has written. I like that he calls it The Great Uprising, and not The Great Mutiny. The Great Uprising is better, as it does represent, to some extent, the Indian perspective.
He does cast the actions of the British in a darker light, and this is how it should be.
Sialkot has not been covered by writers of The Great Uprising and this is a good addition to the literature on the events of 1857-58. ( )