Mass-Mediated Panic in the British Empire? Shyamji Krishnavarma’s ‘Scientific Terrorism’ and the ‘London Outrage’, 1909

Fischer–Tiné, Harald

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-45136-7_5

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“…73 Nicholas Owen, 'The Soft Heart of the accomplices, under the assumption that the young Dhingra must have been only a puppet of sinister 'wire-pullers' such as Krishnavarma. 75 With Krishnavarma having left Britain in 1907 to escape prosecution for an earlier sedition charge, the radical nationalist Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was India House's leading authority figure at the time of the assassination. Savarkar had gained fameas well as notorietyafter the publication of a book titled The History of the War of Indian Independence, an account of the rebellion of 1857 that reframed the so-called mutiny as a nationalist-inspired revolt against colonialism.…”

Section: Violence and Non-violence In Colonial Indiamentioning

confidence: 99%

A Genealogy of Terrorism

McQuade

2020

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Using India as a case study, Joseph McQuade demonstrates how the modern concept of terrorism was shaped by colonial emergency laws dating back into the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Beginning with the 'thugs', 'pirates', and 'fanatics' of the nineteenth century, McQuade traces the emerging and novel legal category of 'the terrorist' in early twentieth-century colonial law, ending with an examination of the first international law to target global terrorism in the 1930s. Drawing on a wide range of archival research and a detailed empirical study of evolving emergency laws in British India, he argues that the idea of terrorism emerged as a deliberate strategy by officials seeking to depoliticize the actions of anti-colonial revolutionaries, and that many of the ideas embedded in this colonial legislation continue to shape contemporary understandings of terrorism today.

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Section: Violence and Non-violence In Colonial Indiamentioning

confidence: 99%