Paper 21 reading list - Faculty of History

Vanessa Smith Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-century textual encounters (Cambridge, 1998)
Sujit Sivasundaram Nature and the Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795-1850
(Cambridge, 2005)
John Gascoigne Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment : useful knowledge and polite culture (Cambridge, 1994).
Jonathan Lamb Preserving the Self in the South Seas, 1680-1840 (Chicago, 2001).
1 1 E A R L Y C O L O N I A L I N D I A
a) Indian, rather than British initiative was the major force for change in India, before 1860?
b) The last stand of the old order’: Discuss this view of the Indian Mutiny.
(11a)
S Bose & A Jalal Modern South Asia, 76–97; Bayly, Indian Society, chapter 6 (above topic 5)
DA Washbrook OHBE, 3, chapter 18
Sukanta Chaudhuri (ed.) Calcutta the Living City, i, 30–127
Singha & Prior Articles in MAS 1 (1993)
ET Stokes The Peasant and the Raj (1978), chapter 2; English Utilitarians and India (1959), esp. Part 1
D Kumar (ed.) Cambridge Economic History of India, ii
KN Chaudhuri Economic Development under the East India Company, Introduction
R Frykenberg (ed.) Land Control and Social Structure in Indian History, chapters by Cohn, Stein, Raychaudhuri
SN Mukherjee Citizen Historian (1996), essays on Rammohan Roy, women etc.
DA Washbrook ‘Law, State and agrarian society in colonial India’, MAS (1981)
Modern Intellectual History , 4, 1, 2007 (ed. Kapila), essays by Bayly, Wilson, Dodson.
C.A.Bayly Recovering liberties. Indian Thought in the age of liberalism and Empire (2011)
TR Metcalf Ideologies of the Raj (NCHI, 1995)
M Dodson Orientalism and National Culture (2007)
(11b) Stokes, Peasant and Raj, and Bayly, Indian Society (above)
Sir John Kaye History of the Sepoy War in India, vol. 1 (1867)
W. Dalrymple The last Mughal (2007)
TR Metcalf Aftermath of Revolt: India 1857–1870 (1964); Land, Landlords and the British Raj (1979),
chapters 6 and 7; Ideologies of the Raj (NCHI, 1995)
EI Brodkin ‘Struggle for Succession’, MAS (1972)
S Rizvi & M Bhargava (eds) Freedom Struggle in UP, vols 1 and 4 [documents]
K Marx & F Engels The First Indian War of Independence
R Mukherjee Awadh in revolt 1857–58
ET Stokes The Peasant Armed (1986), esp. chapters 1–3
N Gupta & M Hasan (eds) India’s Colonial Encounter, chapter by R Ray
JG Farrell The Siege of Krishnapur [fiction]
R Guha (ed.) Subaltern Studies IV, article by G Bhadra, ‘Four rebels of 1857’
Sita Rama From Sepoy to Subahdar [contemporary work: West Room in UL]
Tapti Roy Article in MAS 1 (1993)
CA Bayly Empire and Information (1996), ch. on Mutiny; Origins of Nationality in South Asia (1998),
ch 3
Kim Wagner The great fear of 1857 (2010)
1 2 C H I N A
How far were Chinese elites able to respond successfully to peasant rebellion and dynastic decline?
E Rawski The Last Emperors (Oriental Studies)
Henrietta Harrison The Man awakened from dreams (2005) (OS)
H van de Ven ‘Recent studies of modern Chinese history’, MAS 30, 2 (1996), esp. 225–45
P Kuhn The origins of the modern Chinese state (2006)
J Polachek The Inner Opium War (1992) [Oriental Studies]