Ireland and India: Nationalism, Empire and Memory

by M. Silvestri

Overview

Ireland and India examines both imperial and anti-imperial aspects of Ireland's relationship with India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through a consideration of historical memory, commemoration and the 'imagined communities' of nationalism, the book analyzes three aspects of Ireland's multi-faceted involvement with the British Empire: relationship between Irish and Indian nationalists, the construction of Irishmen as British (and Irish) national and imperial heroes, and the commemoration of a mutiny of Irish soldiers in India. Ranging from Irish imperial heroics on the Northwest frontier of India to anti-imperial collaboration between expatriate nationalists in New York City, the book demonstrates how both imperial and anti-imperial legacies are critical elements of Ireland's modern history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349303687
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/22/2009
Series:	Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
Edition description:	1st ed. 2009
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

MICHAEL SILVESTRI is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Clemson University, South Carolina.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgments x

List of Abbreviations xii

Introduction 1

1 'An Assertion of Liberty Incarnate': Irish and Indian Nationalists in North America 13

2 'The Sinn Fein of India': The Reception of Irish Revolutionary Nationalism in Bengal 46

3 'Lord and Master Nikkal Seyn': The Construction of John Nicholson as a British Imperial Hero 76

4 An 'Irish Paladin': John Nicholson as an Ulster and Irish Imperial Hero 113

5 'The Remains of Ireland's Loneliest Martyr': The Commemoration of the Connaught Rangers Mutiny 139

6 'Enemies of the Empire? The Imperial Context of the Connaught Rangers Mutiny 176

Conclusion 208

Notes 215

Bibliography 272

Index 288