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SUMMARY:Fear\, Violence\, and the Making of British Power in India - Dr Ma
 rk Condos\, Queen Mary University of London
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CONTACT:Barbara Roe
DESCRIPTION:This paper explores what may be called the 'dark underside' of
  the ideologies that sustained the British Raj. It argues argue that the B
 ritish in India were obsessed with a fearfulness and an unreasoning belief
  in their own vulnerability as rulers\, and that these enduring anxieties 
 precipitated\, and justified\, an all too frequent recourse to violence\, 
 joined with an insistence on untrammelled executive power placed in the ha
 nds of district officers. This paper traces how these systemic anxieties a
 nd concerns about the security and stability of the colonial regime were i
 nscribed into the very foundations of colonial power through an examinatio
 n of one of the most spectacular and violent examples of colonial panic in
  the nineteenth century: the suppression of the so-called 'Kooka outbreak'
  of 1872.
LOCATION:Seminar Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambri
 dge CB3 9DT
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