FT-54671-06 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Michael S. Silvestri | Ireland and India: Nationalism, Empire and Memory | 5/1/2006 - 7/31/2006 | $5,000.00 | Michael | S. | Silvestri | | | | Clemson University | Clemson | SC | 29634-0001 | USA | 2006 | History, General | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
The imperial and colonial legacies of Ireland have been the subject of considerable controversy in recent years. My project explores the imaginative dimension of Irish-Indian relationships in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries through a consideration of three issues: relationships between Irish and Indian nationalists, the construction of Irishmen as British imperial heroes, and Irish nationalist commemoration of the mutiny of a regiment of Irish soldiers in India. My study will incorporate the perspective of Ulster Unionists as well as Irish and Indian nationalists. |