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The transportation of Narain Sing: punishment, honour and identity from the Anglo–Sikh Wars to the Great Revolt
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Anderson, Clare (2010) The transportation of Narain Sing: punishment, honour and identity from the Anglo–Sikh Wars to the Great Revolt. Modern Asian Studies, Vol.44 (No.5). pp. 1115-1145. doi:10.1017/S0026749X09990266 ISSN 0026-749X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X09990266
Abstract
This paper examines fragments from the life of Narain Sing as a means of exploring punishment, labour, society and social transformation in the aftermath of the Anglo–Sikh Wars (1845–1846, 1848–1849). Narain Sing was a famous military general who the British convicted of treason and sentenced to transportation overseas after the annexation of the Panjab in 1849. He was shipped as a convict to one of the East India Company's penal settlements in Burma where, in 1861, he was appointed head police constable of Moulmein. Narain Sing's experiences of military service, conviction, transportation and penal work give us a unique insight into questions of loyalty, treachery, honour, masculinity and status. When his life history is placed within the broader context of continuing agitation against the expansion of British authority in the Panjab, we also glimpse something of the changing nature of identity and the development of Anglo–Sikh relations more broadly between the wars of the 1840s and the Great Indian Revolt of 1857–1858.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | East India Company, Penal transportation, Imprisonment -- Sociological aspects, Punjab (India) -- History, India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947 | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Modern Asian Studies | ||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||
| ISSN: | 0026-749X | ||||
| Official Date: | September 2010 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.44 | ||||
| Number: | No.5 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1115-1145 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0026749X09990266 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
| Funder: | National Maritime Museum (Great Britain) |
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