'Chatterjee takes a close look at the justifications of modern empire by liberal thinkers, international lawyers, and conservative traditionalists, and examines the intellectual and political responses of the colonised, including those of Bengali nationalists. The two sides of empire's entwined history are brought together in the story of the Black Hole memorial: set up in Calcutta in 1760, demolished in 1821, restored by Lord Curzon in 1902, and removed in 1940 to a neglected churchyard. Challenging conventional truisms of imperial history, nationalist scholarship, and liberal visions of globalisation, Chatterjee argues that empire is a necessary and continuing part of the history of the modern state.' (Back Cover)
Includes bibliography and index.
Onsite
English
colonialism,  postcolonialism,  India
2012
440
9780691152011
1
monograph
Chapter One: Outrage in Calcutta
Chapter Two: A Secret Veil
Chapter Three: Tipu's Tiger
Chapter Four: Liberty of the Subject
Chapter Five: Equality of Subjects
Chapter Six: For the Happiness of Mankind
Chapter Seven: The Pedagogy of Violence
Chapter Eight: The Pedagogy of Culture
Chapter Nine: Bombs, Sovereignty, and Football
Chapter Ten: The Death and Everlasting Life of Empire
Afterword
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