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Volume : III, Issue : II, March - 2013

APPROPRIATING TERRITORIES FOR IMPERIAL INTERESTS

SURAJ KUMAR SUMAN

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

Abstract :

By the middle of the nineteenth century, the British Empire in India was at its pinnacle. Only few portions of the north India,formally constituting the domains of Ranjeet Singh, were yet to be brought under British paramountancy.Very soon these alluring regions acquired a greater importance for being a natural border land, and created necessary pushes and pulls to implant colonial rule there as well. Through a number of travelogues, maintained by the European travellers, who visited these regions in the guise of hypocritical travelers, the secrets associated with these lands were revealed. More essentially the travel accounts developed by victor Jacquemont and Baron Charles Hugel emphasized the need to conquer these vital regions. The present paper traces how these two travel narratives particularly, not just demonstrated,but powerfully asserted thatthe impoverished lands and the decadent subjects of Lahore Darbar need a touch ofmessianic British rule. Besides with the objective of motivating the British intervention, the geo-political, geo-strategic, and military-cum economic potentialities of these regions was stressed in such a way that in subsequent years, all these lands became the focus of imperial business.

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SURAJ KUMAR SUMAN, (2013). APPROPRIATING TERRITORIES FOR IMPERIAL INTERESTS. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. II, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/2186.pdf

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  2. Bowman, Linda (2011). “Travelers' tales: Great Game Narratives''p.2
  3. Bamazi, cultural and Political History of Kashmir, p.614
  4. Victor Jacquemont, (1834) Letters from India. Describing a journey in the British Dominions of India, Tibet, Lahore, and Cashmere during the years 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, p.233: Jacquemont's letters were first published in English since he was on a trip which was sponsored by the Royal Asiatic Society. Indebted to his English patrons, his letters carried an introduction by his English publisher which frankly avowed the value of his work as an =impartial 'judge of British rule in India, even an =unwilling advocate 'by virtue of his being from France which had been defeated in India by Britain. See ibid: introduction.

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