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Title:
Pacifying a Hostile land and
People: The Case of Samuel Bourne and The People of India
Where
& When: January 28, 2009
341 Eggers Hall
12.45 pm
Type
of Activity: Speaker
Speaking: Sandeep
Banerjee,
Graduate Student in English, Syracuse University.
Summary: The
paper proposes that a discourse of pacification structures
all literary and visual productions about India after the
1857 Rebellion. It investigates the operations of this
discourse in the images and travel narratives of Samuel
Bourne and The People of India, the first compendium
of "native types" brought out by the British after the
Rebellion.
Sponsorship:
The South Asia Center;
