Muslim, Dalit and subaltern narratives

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / by Markus Daechsel -- Identity and narratives : Dalits and memories of 1857 / Badri Narayan Tiwari -- Condemnation and commemoration : (en)gendering Dalit narratives of 1857 / Charu Gupta -- "We" and "they" in an altered ecumene : the mutiny from the mutineers' mouths / Nupur Chaudhuri and Rajat Kanta Ray -- Sites of provocation and coalescence : jails as spaces of rebellion in 1857-1858 / Clare Anderson -- Ideology and paradox in British civil service accounts of Muslim "conspiracy" in 1857-1859 / Alex Padamsee -- Questionable loyalties : Muslim government servants and rebellion / Avril A. Powell -- The legacies of 1857 among the Muslim intelligentsia of north India / Mushirul Hasan -- In the wake of colonial ascendancy : rethinking Muslim respectability / Ruby Lal -- Abused rationality? on the role of Maql scholars in the events of 1857-1858 / Jan-Peter Hartung -- Rebellious against rebellion, Kashful Baghaavat Gorakhpur : a pro-British -- Account of the revolt of 1857 by a Sufi aristocrat / Farhat Nasreen -- Mutiny's children : race, childhood and authority after 1857 / Satadru Sen -- About the editor and contributors -- Index.