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Royal Indian Navy Mutiny: A Study of Its Impact in South India

Royal Indian Navy Mutiny: A Study of Its Impact in South India

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General World HistoryNaval History

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ISBN10: 9374519739
ISBN13: 9789374519738
Publisher: Manohar Books
Pages: 326
Language: English
This is a meticulously monograph on the February 1946 Royal Indian Navy Mutiny, emphasizing its profound repercussions across South India, particularly in the Malabar region, thereby broadening the existing scholarship that centers on Bombay and Karachi. By closely examining lesser-explored archival sources and regional accounts, the study reveals how this six-day uprising united urban workers, students, and peasants across communal and political lines, forging unprecedented anti-imperialist solidarity. It situates the mutiny within the revolutionary ferment of post-war India, demonstrating how economic hardship, wartime displacement, and nationalist consciousness came together to create a moment of collective resistance against the colonial authority. Challenging nationalist historiographies that privilege the Quit India Movement and constitutional negotiations, the work recovers and foregrounds neglected micro-histories of popular militancy. Through a rigorous examination of government reports, naval records, contemporary periodicals, and oral testimonies from participants, the study establishes that the mutineers possessed an informed and evolving political consciousness, framed through everyday experiences and nationalist ideals and challenges portrayals of the event as impulsive or unplanned.

The study further elaborates on the impact of the mutiny in Malabar, where Communist networks transformed fleeting dissent into sustained collective action. It also engages with critical historiographical debates concerning the relationship between popular uprisings and the British withdrawal from India, presenting nuanced evidence that while the mutiny catalyzed mass sympathetic actions, the absence of coordinated political support and limited rural penetration limited its potential for political transformation.

The study, thus, redefines the mutiny as a transformative yet underestimated episode in India's freedom struggle, revealing mass revolutionary potential alongside the limitations of nationalist leadership.

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