Summary of the paper: Nationalist Rhetoric and Politics of Panic
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The paper argues that the unfolding of the plague crisis of 1896 in the Bombay presidency played a very important role in shaping the new vocabulary of regional politics in Western India. The response that emerged on the part of the natives in the aftermath of the plague epidemic of 1896 was not just confined to critiquing plague measures adopted by the colonial state, nor was it only about the concomitant response of the nationalists to the plague crisis. Instead, it went beyond the realm of epidemics and healthcare and created new forms of political and ideological hegemony in Western India. The paper argues that the plague epidemic further consolidated the upper caste-led conservative politics in Western India. In the aftermath of the deadly plague crisis the political discourse of cultural revivalism dominated by the Brahmins gathered incredible momentum.
Publication Date
2022
Recommended Citation
Pol, Prabodhan, "Summary of the paper: Nationalist Rhetoric and Politics of Panic" (2022). Open Access archive. 9248.
https://impressions.manipal.edu/open-access-archive/9248
