Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857

Crispin Bates is Professor of Modern and Contemporary South Asian History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh and ‘former director’ of the University’s Centre for South Asian Studies. He has published extensively on tribal, peasant and labour history in India and the history of Indian overseas migration. His publications include Subalterns and Raj: South Asia since 1600 (2007); (with Subho Basu) Rethinking Indian Political Institutions (2005), Beyond Representation: Constructions of Identity in Colonial and Postcolonial India (2005), and (with Alpa Shah) Savage Attack: Tribal Insurgency in India (2014). Between 2006 and 2008, he was the Principal Investigator in a major Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded research project concerning the Indian Uprising, based at the University of Edinburgh.

Preface
Introduction - Crispin Bates
Bandits, Bureaucrats and Bahadur Shah Zafar: Articulating Sovereignty and Seeing the Modern State Effect in the Margins of Colonial India, c. 1757-1858 - Tom Lloyd
Rumours of the Company`s Collapse: The Mood of Dasahra 1824 in the Punjab and Hindustan - Dirk H A Kolff
The Hazards of Interference′: British fears of Rebellion and Sati as a Potential Site of Conflict, 1829-1857 - Andrea Major
Prostituting the Mutiny: Sex-Slavery and Crime in the Making of 1857 - William R Pinch
The Roots of Peasant Turbulence: Tenure Structures and 1857 - Amaresh Misra
The Police in Delhi in 1857 - Mahmood Farooqui
Reflections of 1857 in Contemporary Urdu Literature - Rakshanda Jalil
Contextualising Truth: Deconstructing the Poet Khazan Singh′s Account of the War of Delhi, 1857 - Chhanda Chatterjee
Situating the Role of Religion in the Rebellion: The Case of the Prayagwals in the Allahabad Uprising - Kama Maclean
The Mutiny in Western India: The ′Marginal′ as Regional Dynamic - Veena Naregal
What Constitutes a Margin or Margins? The Politics of Perception and the Representation of Power: The Insurrection of 1857 in Kolhan - Gautam Bhadra
The War of Independence 1857, and Swat - Sultan-I-Rome
Spatial Memorialising of War in 1857: Memories, Traces and Silences in Ethnography - Carol E Henderson
Index