India after the 1857 Revolt

M. Christhu Doss received his primary education from Tirunelveli Diocesan Trust Association (T.D.T.A.) Primary School (Kalungadi, Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu, India), secondary education from Sankar Reddiyar Government Higher Secondary School (Nanguneri, Tirunelveli District), graduation from St. John’s College (Palayamkottai, Tamil Nadu), post-graduation from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University (Tirunelveli) and Doctorate programme from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, India). He teaches history at Christ University, Bengaluru, India. His areas of academic research interest include modern South Asian history with a special focus on social, cultural and intellectual history of modern and contemporary India.

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

1 Introduction: Colonialism, Culture and Decolonization

Locating the Roots of Culture and Nationalism in India

Culture, Power and Decolonization

Orientalists and Utilitarians: Black and White Divisions

Colonialism as a ‘Civilizing’ Mission

‘Messengers’ of Modernity

Revisionists and Rewriting of History

Dialogues, Negotiations and Contestations

Charter Act of 1813 and after

Decolonizing the Mind during and after 1857

Redemptive Nationalism: Mahatma Gandhi, Europeans and Americans

Subaltern Masses and Decolonization

Chapterization

2 First War of Indian Independence, Cultural Sensibilities and Roots of Decolonization

Fighting the Firangis

Expanding the Horizons of ‘Moral Conquest’

1857 Revolt and the Issue of ‘Cultural Contamination’

Cultural Sensitivities and Decolonization

3 Education, Forms of Knowledge and Trajectories of Decolonization

Contesting Cultural Imperialism

‘Moral Effects’ of English Education: Orientalists and Anglicists

Controversial Colonial Pedagogy

Education in Transition

Education, Knowledge and Power

National Education, Cultural Consciousness and Decolonization

Awakening Indians from Their ‘Deep Slumber’

4 From ‘Civilizing’ Mission to Decolonization: European Gandhian Satyagrahis in India

Nonviolence, Sedition and Declaration of Guilt

Making of Gandhian Satyagrahis

Politics and Passive Resistance

Friends of India

Confronting Colonial Ideologies: Ideal Satyagrahis

5 American Gandhians and Nonviolent Redemptive Nationalism in India

Pacifists and Decolonization

Contesting the Claims of European Supremacy

Expanding the Horizons of Decolonization

Nonviolent Crusade against the Colonial Highhandedness

American Gandhians and Redemptive Nationalism

6 Sandwiched Patriots, De-Westernization and Struggle for Independence

Nationalist Christians and Anti-Colonial Sentiments

Indianization/Hinduization of Missionary Religion

Ashrams and Churchless Christianity

Sandwiched Patriots

Christian Nationalists and Their Fault Lines

De-Westernization and Struggle for Independence

Concluding Observations

Bibliography

Index