Online Read Ebook The Skull of Alum Bheg: The Life and Death of a Rebel of 1857

The Skull of Alum Bheg: The Life and Death of a Rebel of 1857 by Kim Wagner

• The Skull of Alum Bheg: The Life and Death of a Rebel of 1857
• Kim Wagner
• Page: 288
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9780190870232
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Download eBook

Download english books free The Skull of Alum Bheg: The Life and Death of a Rebel of 1857

Overview

The Skull of Alum Bheg: The Life and Death of a Rebel of 1857 by Kim Wagner In 1963, a human skull was discovered in a pub in Kent in south-east England. A brief handwritten note stuck inside the cavity revealed it to be that of Alum Bheg, an Indian soldier in British service who was executed during the aftermath of the 1857 Uprising, or The Indian Mutiny as historians of an earlier era described it. Alum Bheg was blown from a cannon for having allegedly murdered British civilians, and his head was brought back as a grisly war-trophy by an Irish officer present at his execution. The skull is a troublesome relic of both anti- colonial violence and the brutality and spectacle of British retribution. Kim Wagner presents an intimate and vivid account of life and death in British India in the throes of the largest rebellion of the nineteenth century. Fugitive rebels spent months, even years, hiding in the vastness of the Himalayas before they were eventually hunted down and punished by a vengeful colonial state. Examining the colonial practice of collecting and exhibiting human remains, this book offers a critical assessment of British imperialism that speaks to contemporary debates about the legacies of Empire and the myth of the 'Mutiny'.

Other ebooks: {pdf download} The Godfather Effect: Changing Hollywood, America, and Me link, [PDF/Kindle] The Book of CODESYS: The ultimate guide to PLC and Industrial Controls programming with the CODESYS IDE and IEC 61131-3. by site, Online Read Ebook Les chroniques de la maitresse du temple Tome 2 here, [Pdf/ePub] Bien lire et aimer lire - La méthode phonétique et gestuelle créee par Suzanne Borel-Maisonny - Méthode de lecture CP-CE1 by Clotilde Silvestre de Sacy, Chantal Comte, Luna Cavalier download ebook link, Read online: Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt, Vol. 16 here, PDF EPUB Download Contagion Myth: Why Viruses (including by Thomas S. Cowan MD, Sally Fallon Morell Full Book download pdf, {pdf download} Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology download link,