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VERNACULAR OBJECTS | INDIAN MUTINY | IMPERIAL PANIC1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2016

Gautam Basu Thakur
Gautam Basu Thakur*
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Boise State University
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This paper is a study of subject-object relations in British writings about the Indian Uprising of 1857. I focus in particular on accounts vocalizing panic over a colony of objects “baldly encountered” and “not quite apprehended” in the context of remembering and remediating traumatic memories of the Uprising (Brown 5). What follows is an exercise in object-oriented investigation, reading depictions of subject-object and object-subject encounters, analyzing matters-of-concern emerging from the events of 1857 (Latour, “Realpolitik” 14; also, Reassembling 70n80, 114–20).

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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , September 2016 , pp. 557 - 576
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