From empire to the War on Terror : the 1915 Indian Sepoy Mutiny in Singapore as a case study of the impact of profiling of religious and ethnic minorities
This paper looks at some of the unintended consequences of religious and ethnic profiling of minorities that took place during the colonial era, and which in 1915 lead to a mutiny by Indian Sepoys then stationed in Singapore. The 1915 mutiny later complicated inter-ethnic relations in...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90690 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6502 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | This paper looks at some of the unintended consequences of religious and ethnic
profiling of minorities that took place during the colonial era, and which in 1915 lead to a mutiny by Indian Sepoys then stationed in Singapore. The 1915 mutiny later
complicated inter-ethnic relations in the colony, and may have been one of the factors
that contributed to the mobilization of Indian Muslims against British rule in Asia
later. Today, the dynamics of the global “War on Terror” bears uncanny resemblances
to the Indian Sepoy Mutiny in Singapore in 1915. Both reflect the dynamics of
oppositional dialectics and the impact of racial-religious profiling on the identity of
Muslims across the globe. They incur the politics of “othering” Muslims, which
require them to choose between loyalty to their nation/state/empire and their ethnoreligious
community. A side effect is the sharpening of boundaries between the Western and Muslim worlds. |
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