India after the 1857 Revolt

<p>Weaving together the varied and complex strands of anti-colonial nationalism into one compact narrative, Christhu Doss takes an incisive look at the deeper and wider historical process of decolonization in India.</p><p>In <i>India after the 1857 Revolt</i>, Doss brings together some of the most cutting-edge thoughts by challenging the cultural project of colonialism and critically examining the multi-dimensional aspects of decolonization during and after the 1857 revolt. He demonstrates that the deep-rooted popular discontent among the Indian masses followed by the revolt generated a distinctive form of decolonization movement—redemptive nationalism that challenged both the supremacy of the British Raj and the cultural imperatives of the controversial proselytizing missionary agencies. Doss argues that the quests for decolonization (of mind) that got triggered by the revolt were further intensified by the Indocentric national education; the historic Chicago discourse of Swami Vivekananda; the nonviolent anti-colonial struggles of Mahatma Gandhi; the seditious political activism displayed by the Western Gandhian missionary satyagrahis; and the de-Westernization endeavours of the sandwiched Indian Christian nationalists.</p><p>A compelling read for historians, political scientists and sociologists, it is refreshingly an indispensable guide to all those who are interested in anticolonial struggles and decolonization movements worldwide.</p> <p>Foreword </p><p>Preface </p><p>Acknowledgements</p><p>List of Abbreviations</p><p>1 Introduction: Colonialism, Culture and Decolonization </p><p>Locating the Roots of Culture and Nationalism in India </p><p>Culture, Power and Decolonization </p><p>Orientalists and Utilitarians: Black and White Divisions </p><p>Colonialism as a ‘Civilizing’ Mission </p><p>‘Messengers’ of Modernity </p><p>Revisionists and Rewriting of History </p><p>Dialogues, Negotiations and Contestations </p><p>Charter Act of 1813 and after </p><p>Decolonizing the Mind during and after 1857 </p><p>Redemptive Nationalism: Mahatma Gandhi, Europeans and Americans </p><p>Subaltern Masses and Decolonization </p><p>Chapterization</p><p>2 First War of Indian Independence, Cultural Sensibilities and Roots of Decolonization </p><p>Fighting the Firangis </p><p>Expanding the Horizons of ‘Moral Conquest’ </p><p>1857 Revolt and the Issue of ‘Cultural Contamination’ </p><p>Cultural Sensitivities and Decolonization </p><p>3 Education, Forms of Knowledge and Trajectories of Decolonization </p><p>Contesting Cultural Imperialism </p><p>‘Moral Effects’ of English Education: Orientalists and Anglicists </p><p>Controversial Colonial Pedagogy </p><p>Education in Transition </p><p>Education, Knowledge and Power </p><p>National Education, Cultural Consciousness and Decolonization </p><p>Awakening Indians from Their ‘Deep Slumber’ </p><p>4 From ‘Civilizing’ Mission to Decolonization: European Gandhian Satyagrahis in India </p><p>Nonviolence, Sedition and Declaration of Guilt </p><p>Making of Gandhian Satyagrahis </p><p>Politics and Passive Resistance </p><p>Friends of India </p><p>Confronting Colonial Ideologies: Ideal Satyagrahis</p><p>5 American Gandhians and Nonviolent Redemptive Nationalism in India </p><p>Pacifists and Decolonization </p><p>Contesting the Claims of European Supremacy </p><p>Expanding the Horizons of Decolonization </p><p>Nonviolent Crusade against the Colonial Highhandedness </p><p>American Gandhians and Redemptive Nationalism </p><p>6 Sandwiched Patriots, De-Westernization and Struggle for Independence </p><p>Nationalist Christians and Anti-Colonial Sentiments </p><p>Indianization/Hinduization of Missionary Religion </p><p>Ashrams and Churchless Christianity </p><p>Sandwiched Patriots </p><p>Christian Nationalists and Their Fault Lines </p><p>De-Westernization and Struggle for Independence </p><p>Concluding Observations </p><p>Bibliography </p><p>Index </p>