Englishness' on the Imperial Circuit

Mutiny Tours in Colonial South Asia

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ID4301366
AuthorsManu Goswami (University of Chicago, corresponding author)
Year1996
Volume9
Issue1
Pages54-84
Publication date1996-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-6443.1996.tb00178.x
OpenAlexW2036822690
LanguageEN
Citations received15

Dominant analyses of the generative conditions and the particular forms assumed by 'Englishness' in the late nineteenth century continue to territorialise its formation within the metropole. This paper seeks to challenge the reified binary topography of metropole/periphery by situating dominant articulations of 'Englishness' within the territorial and discursive ground of colonial South Asia. A recognition of the broader, asymmetrically structured field of imperial social relations, I argue, requires a reconceptualization of 'Englishness' as an imperial formation. Through a critical analysis of the official historiography on the mutiny, the spatial and discursive practices of mutiny tours, and their constitutive role in shaping the identity of tourists, this paper attempts to show the intersections between 'Englishness', England and Empire

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Empire · Field (mathematics · Historiography · Identity (music · Mutiny · Sociology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Philippine History and Culture · Socioeconomic Development in Asia

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