Resistance and repression in India: the hunger strike at the Andaman cellular jail in 1933
The rise of militancy in the beginning of twentieth century in India made the colonial authorities apprehensive of confining the nationalists on the mainland where they could spread their «dangerous ideas». The hunger strikes by the political convicts in the mainland prisons and in the cellular jail...
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| Natura: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lingua: | Anglais |
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2009
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | The rise of militancy in the beginning of twentieth century in India made the colonial authorities apprehensive of confining the nationalists on the mainland where they could spread their «dangerous ideas». The hunger strikes by the political convicts in the mainland prisons and in the cellular jail were an extension of the resistance movement against British colonialism. At the cost of three lives the hunger strike of 1933 kept the spirit of anti-colonial struggle alive during the lull created after Gandhi’s Civil Disobedience Movement and exposed the mistreatment of political prisoners and the dehumanisation involved in forced feeding. The narratives of participants put together with government records unearths a minor resistance movement against a mighty colonial power. |
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