Alex Tickell is Lecturer in English at the Open University, UK, and Director of the OU’s Postcolonial Literatures Research Group. He specializes in South-Asian literatures in English and has published widely on nineteenth-century colonial fiction, early writing in English by Indian authors, and contemporary fiction from the subcontinent. His publications include Selections from ‘Bengaliana’, Alternative Indias edited with Peter Morey and a readers’ guide to Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things (Routledge, 2007).

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• Introduction: Empire and Exception: The ‘Black Hole’ of Calcutta 1. The Highlands of Orissa: Ritual Terror and Reform in Colonial India 2. The Bibighar: Mourning the 1857 Rebellion 3. The Angel of Cawnpore: Remembering the 1857 Rebellion 4. The Hostel in Highgate: Revolutionary Nationalism and Colonial Counter-Terrorism 5. Jallianwala Bagh: Gandhi, Terrorism and Non-Violence Index

Alex Tickell is Lecturer in English at the Open University, UK, and Director of the OU’s Postcolonial Literatures Research Group. He specializes in South-Asian literatures in English and has published widely on nineteenth-century colonial fiction, early writing in English by Indian authors, and contemporary fiction from the subcontinent. His publications include Selections from ‘Bengaliana’, Alternative Indias edited with Peter Morey and a readers’ guide to Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things (Routledge, 2007).

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• Introduction: Empire and Exception: The ‘Black Hole’ of Calcutta 1. The Highlands of Orissa: Ritual Terror and Reform in Colonial India 2. The Bibighar: Mourning the 1857 Rebellion 3. The Angel of Cawnpore: Remembering the 1857 Rebellion 4. The Hostel in Highgate: Revolutionary Nationalism and Colonial Counter-Terrorism 5. Jallianwala Bagh: Gandhi, Terrorism and Non-Violence Index