Ireland and India: Nationalism, Empire and Memory

FAIN: FT-54671-06

Michael S. Silvestri
Clemson University (Clemson, SC 29634-0001)

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.

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Ireland and India: Nationalism, Empire and Memory (Book)
Title: Ireland and India: Nationalism, Empire and Memory
Author: Michael Silvestri
Abstract: Through a consideration of historical memory, commemoration and the 'imagined communities' of nationalism, Ireland and India examines three aspects of Ireland's imperial history: relationships between Irish and Indian nationalists, the construction of Irishmen as imperial heroes, and the commemoration of an Irish regiment's mutiny in India.
Year: 2009
Primary URL: https://www.worldcat.org/title/ireland-and-india-nationalism-empire-and-memory/oclc/1063624259&referer=brief_results
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0-230-2167
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

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