Insurgent Empire

Author: Priyamvada Gopal

ISBN: 978-9386797704

Price: Rs. 699.00 • ✓ 100% Genuine Publisher Edition

Book Overview

How rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empire. Insurgent Empire shows how Britains enslaved and colonial subjects were active agents in their own liberation. What is more, they shaped British ideas of freedom and emancipation back in the United Kingdom. Priyamvada Gopal examines a century of dissent on the question of empire and shows how British critics of empire were influenced by rebellions and resistance in the colonies, from the West Indies and East Africa to Egypt and India. In addition, a pivotal role in fomenting resistance was played by anticolonial campaigners based in London, right at the heart of empire. Much has been written on how colonized peoples took up British and European ideas and turned them against empire when making claims to freedom and self-determination. Insurgent Empire sets the record straight in demonstrating that these people were much more than victims of imperialism or, subsequently, the passive beneficiaries of an enlightened British consciencethey were insurgents whose legacies shaped and benefited the nation that once oppressed them.

Browse this title within our Social Sciences and Education collection. Edition details: Paperback, English, 626 pages. Reference ISBN: 978-9386797704.

About the Author

Priyamvada Gopal is University Reader in Anglophone and Related Literatures in the Faculty of English and Fellow, Churchill College, University of Cambridge. She is the author of Literary Radicalism in India: Gender, Nation and the Transition to Independence and The Indian English Novel: Nation, History and Narration.

Why Readers Pick This Edition

• You’ll love this book for the way it flips the familiar story of empire on its head. Instead of portraying colonized peoples as passive, it shows how rebellions and resistance actively reshaped British ideas of freedom, justice, and emancipation. Richly researched and intellectually bold, it connects struggles from India to the Caribbean with debates in London itself, giving you a powerful, global view of how change really happens.
• Published by Simon & Schuster India.
• Language: English.
• Page count: 626.

Catalog Description

How rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empire. Insurgent Empire shows how Britains enslaved and colonial subjects were active agents in their own liberation. What is more, they shaped British ideas of freedom and emancipation back in the United Kingdom. Priyamvada Gopal examines a century of dissent on the question of empire and shows how British critics of empire were influenced by rebellions and resistance in the colonies, from the West Indies and East Africa to Egypt and India. In addition, a pivotal role in fomenting resistance was played by anticolonial campaigners based in London, right at the heart of empire. Much has been written on how colonized peoples took up...

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