Session Details

Thursday, 27 December

100. Everyone’s Burden? British and Indian Writings on the 1857 Mutiny

7:00–8:15 p.m., Stetson B and C, Hyatt Regency

A special session

Presiding: Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana

1. “The Mutiny under Gaze: Supervision and Reinscription of the Other Scene in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone,” Gautam Basu Thakur, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana

2. “The Crisis of Postmutiny Imperial Governance in Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King,” John S. McBratney, John Carroll Univ.

3. “Macaulay’s Minutemen and the Mutiny: Traces of 1857 in Select Bengali Texts,” Rini Bhattacharya Mehta

Respondent: Parama Roy, Univ. of California, Davis

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