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Transnational connections and anti‐colonial radicalism in the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny, 1946
Global Networks, 2019Co-Authors: Andrew DaviesAbstract:In this article, I explore the spatial politics of the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny of 1946 and call for a more maritime sense of ‘the political’. The RIN only existed from 1934 to 1950; it became the Indian Navy after independence. Its Mutiny in 1946, which was caused by a number of grievances from anticolonial nationalism to more mundane challenges about the standard of food, continues to be the dominant event in this history. Leela Gandhi (2014) used the RIN Mutiny to challenge the binary distinction between elite and subaltern in much Indian historiography by depicting it as an ‘anti‐colonial counterpublic’, or space in which discourses other than the dominant nationalist framings of independence were mobilized. She also regards the Mutiny as a potential example of inconsequential ethics in which, instead of worrying about its causes, the Mutiny can be read as an experimental space in which democratic politics occurred, rather than one in which people were striving for a ‘successful’ outcome. I argue that, while there is much to be admired in Gandhi's reading of these events, she discounts the maritime nature of the RIN Mutiny. In other words, she fails to acknowledge that travelling to different international locations allowed the sailors to learn about democracy and other ideas, which in turn influenced their beliefs about what the future of India, and the RIN, should look like. As a result, I argue for the need to explore in greater depth the important connections that exist between anti‐colonialism, democratic politics and the naval/maritime experience.
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transnational connections and anti colonial radicalism in the royal indian navy Mutiny 1946
Global Networks-a Journal of Transnational Affairs, 2019Co-Authors: Andrew DaviesAbstract:In this article, I explore the spatial politics of the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny of 1946 and call for a more maritime sense of ‘the political’. The RIN only existed from 1934 to 1950; it became the Indian Navy after independence. Its Mutiny in 1946, which was caused by a number of grievances from anticolonial nationalism to more mundane challenges about the standard of food, continues to be the dominant event in this history. Leela Gandhi (2014) used the RIN Mutiny to challenge the binary distinction between elite and subaltern in much Indian historiography by depicting it as an ‘anti‐colonial counterpublic’, or space in which discourses other than the dominant nationalist framings of independence were mobilized. She also regards the Mutiny as a potential example of inconsequential ethics in which, instead of worrying about its causes, the Mutiny can be read as an experimental space in which democratic politics occurred, rather than one in which people were striving for a ‘successful’ outcome. I argue that, while there is much to be admired in Gandhi's reading of these events, she discounts the maritime nature of the RIN Mutiny. In other words, she fails to acknowledge that travelling to different international locations allowed the sailors to learn about democracy and other ideas, which in turn influenced their beliefs about what the future of India, and the RIN, should look like. As a result, I argue for the need to explore in greater depth the important connections that exist between anti‐colonialism, democratic politics and the naval/maritime experience.
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learning large ideas overseas discipline im mobility and political lives in the royal indian navy Mutiny
Mobilities, 2014Co-Authors: Andrew DaviesAbstract:AbstractIn February 1946, the 20,000 sailors of the Royal Indian Navy, the colonial navy of the Government of India, mutinied. Having a number of grievances, from colonial rule of India, inefficient demobilisation procedures and ill treatment from superior officers, sailors on ships and shore establishments across the Indian Ocean took part in the Mutiny, which represented the largest time a military force had disobeyed British Rule since the Mutiny of 1857. This paper examines the ways in which the geographies and mobilities of naval service shaped the political lives of the sailors in the RIN. On the one hand, both military (naval) and colonial forms of discipline worked through the spaces of the ship to attempt to control and order sailors’ lives. On the other, the mobile nature of life at sea, travelling from place to place and encountering colonial difference within the RIN, opened the door to different political ideas to influencing the sailors. At the same time, far from being a disconnected space,...
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identity and the assemblages of protest the spatial politics of the royal indian navy Mutiny 1946
Geoforum, 2013Co-Authors: Andrew DaviesAbstract:Abstract This paper develops geographical understandings of political action by examining the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny of 1946 using assemblage theory. This Mutiny of colonial armed forces has generally been characterised in one of three ways: as part of a post-World War Two nationalist ‘upsurge’ in India; as a sign of poor military organisation, and; as a potentially revolutionary moment against a dominant bourgeoisie. It is argued that each of these perspectives is incomplete. Rather, by examining the ways in which naval service shaped the lives of the sailors and their political outlook, the paper argues that the hybrid and contested political identities produced are best understood through utilising assemblage theory. Assemblage theory stresses the nature of society as a series of always emergent processes, with different components interacting and potentially producing new societal forms. Therefore, the sailors involved in the RIN Mutiny emerged as political actors through their engagement with multiple aspects of life as they experienced it as individuals. This has important implications for understanding the geographies of political protest more generally by showing how individuals are able to reformulate their political identities as part of wider assemblages.
Patrick Underwood - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Grievances and the Genesis of Rebellion: Mutiny in the Royal Navy, 1740 to 1820
American Sociological Review, 2015Co-Authors: Michael Hechter, Steven Pfaff, Patrick UnderwoodAbstract:Rebellious collective action is rare, but it can occur when subordinates are severely discontented and other circumstances are favorable. The possibility of rebellion is a check—sometimes the only check—on authoritarian rule. Although mutinies in which crews seized control of their vessels were rare events, they occurred throughout the Age of Sail. To explain the occurrence of this form of high-risk collective action, this article holds that shipboard grievances were the principal cause of Mutiny. However, not all grievances are equal in this respect. We distinguish between structural grievances that flow from incumbency in a subordinate social position and incidental grievances that incumbents have no expectation of suffering. Based on a case-control analysis of incidents of Mutiny compared with controls drawn from a unique database of Royal Navy voyages from 1740 to 1820, in addition to a wealth of qualitative evidence, we find that Mutiny was most likely to occur when structural grievances were combine...
Michael Hechter - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the genesis of rebellion governance grievance and Mutiny in the age of sail
2020Co-Authors: Steven Pfaff, Michael HechterAbstract:The Age of Sail has long fascinated readers, writers, and the general public. Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Jack London et al. treated ships at sea as microcosms; Petri dishes in which larger themes of authority, conflict and order emerge. In this fascinating book, Pfaff and Hechter explore Mutiny as a manifestation of collective action and contentious politics. The authors use narrative evidence and statistical analysis to trace the processes by which governance failed, social order decayed, and seamen mobilized. Their findings highlight the complexities of governance, showing that it was not mere deprivation, but how seamen interpreted that deprivation, which stoked the grievances that motivated rebellion. Using the Age of Sail as a lens to examine topics still relevant today - what motivates people to rebel against deprivation and poor governance - The Genesis of Rebellion: Governance, Grievance, and Mutiny in the Age of Sail helps us understand the emergence of populism and rejection of the establishment.
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The Problem of Solidarity in Insurgent Collective Action: The Nore Mutiny of 1797
Social Science History, 2016Co-Authors: Steven Pfaff, Michael Hechter, Katie E. CorcoranAbstract:How do insurgents engaged in high-risk collective action maintain solidarity when faced with increasing costs and dangers? Based on a combination of process tracing through qualitative evidence and an event-history analysis of a unique data set assembled from naval archives concerning a mass Mutiny in the Royal Navy in 1797, this article explains why insurgent solidarity varied among the ships participating in the Mutiny. Maintaining solidarity was the key problem that the organizers of the Mutiny faced in confronting government repression and inducements for ships’ companies to defect. Solidarity, proxied here as the duration of a ship’s company’s adherence to the Mutiny, relied on techniques used by the Mutiny leadership that increased dependence and imposed control over rank-and-file seamen. In particular, Mutiny leaders monitored and sanctioned compliance and exploited informational asymmetries to persuade seamen to stand by the insurgency, even as prospects for its success faded.
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Grievances and the Genesis of Rebellion: Mutiny in the Royal Navy, 1740 to 1820
American Sociological Review, 2015Co-Authors: Michael Hechter, Steven Pfaff, Patrick UnderwoodAbstract:Rebellious collective action is rare, but it can occur when subordinates are severely discontented and other circumstances are favorable. The possibility of rebellion is a check—sometimes the only check—on authoritarian rule. Although mutinies in which crews seized control of their vessels were rare events, they occurred throughout the Age of Sail. To explain the occurrence of this form of high-risk collective action, this article holds that shipboard grievances were the principal cause of Mutiny. However, not all grievances are equal in this respect. We distinguish between structural grievances that flow from incumbency in a subordinate social position and incidental grievances that incumbents have no expectation of suffering. Based on a case-control analysis of incidents of Mutiny compared with controls drawn from a unique database of Royal Navy voyages from 1740 to 1820, in addition to a wealth of qualitative evidence, we find that Mutiny was most likely to occur when structural grievances were combine...
Steven Pfaff - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the genesis of rebellion governance grievance and Mutiny in the age of sail
2020Co-Authors: Steven Pfaff, Michael HechterAbstract:The Age of Sail has long fascinated readers, writers, and the general public. Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Jack London et al. treated ships at sea as microcosms; Petri dishes in which larger themes of authority, conflict and order emerge. In this fascinating book, Pfaff and Hechter explore Mutiny as a manifestation of collective action and contentious politics. The authors use narrative evidence and statistical analysis to trace the processes by which governance failed, social order decayed, and seamen mobilized. Their findings highlight the complexities of governance, showing that it was not mere deprivation, but how seamen interpreted that deprivation, which stoked the grievances that motivated rebellion. Using the Age of Sail as a lens to examine topics still relevant today - what motivates people to rebel against deprivation and poor governance - The Genesis of Rebellion: Governance, Grievance, and Mutiny in the Age of Sail helps us understand the emergence of populism and rejection of the establishment.
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The Problem of Solidarity in Insurgent Collective Action: The Nore Mutiny of 1797
Social Science History, 2016Co-Authors: Steven Pfaff, Michael Hechter, Katie E. CorcoranAbstract:How do insurgents engaged in high-risk collective action maintain solidarity when faced with increasing costs and dangers? Based on a combination of process tracing through qualitative evidence and an event-history analysis of a unique data set assembled from naval archives concerning a mass Mutiny in the Royal Navy in 1797, this article explains why insurgent solidarity varied among the ships participating in the Mutiny. Maintaining solidarity was the key problem that the organizers of the Mutiny faced in confronting government repression and inducements for ships’ companies to defect. Solidarity, proxied here as the duration of a ship’s company’s adherence to the Mutiny, relied on techniques used by the Mutiny leadership that increased dependence and imposed control over rank-and-file seamen. In particular, Mutiny leaders monitored and sanctioned compliance and exploited informational asymmetries to persuade seamen to stand by the insurgency, even as prospects for its success faded.
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Grievances and the Genesis of Rebellion: Mutiny in the Royal Navy, 1740 to 1820
American Sociological Review, 2015Co-Authors: Michael Hechter, Steven Pfaff, Patrick UnderwoodAbstract:Rebellious collective action is rare, but it can occur when subordinates are severely discontented and other circumstances are favorable. The possibility of rebellion is a check—sometimes the only check—on authoritarian rule. Although mutinies in which crews seized control of their vessels were rare events, they occurred throughout the Age of Sail. To explain the occurrence of this form of high-risk collective action, this article holds that shipboard grievances were the principal cause of Mutiny. However, not all grievances are equal in this respect. We distinguish between structural grievances that flow from incumbency in a subordinate social position and incidental grievances that incumbents have no expectation of suffering. Based on a case-control analysis of incidents of Mutiny compared with controls drawn from a unique database of Royal Navy voyages from 1740 to 1820, in addition to a wealth of qualitative evidence, we find that Mutiny was most likely to occur when structural grievances were combine...
Yoshihisa Kishiyama - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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VTC Spring - Enhanced Dynamic Cell Selection with Muting Scheme for DL CoMP in LTE-A
2010 IEEE 71st Vehicular Technology Conference, 2010Co-Authors: Minghai Feng, Lan Chen, Yoshihisa KishiyamaAbstract:CoMP JP (Coordinated Multi-Point Joint Processing) is regarded as a promising technique to improve both cell edge user throughput and cell average user throughput in LTE-A downlink. CoMP JP can be categorized as CoMP JT (Joint Transmission) and COMP DCS (Dynamic Cell Selection). Compared with CoMP JT schemes, CoMP DCS provides a good trade-off between the transmission algorithm complexity, backhaul overhead and system performance. Conventional DCS scheme can benefit cell edge users by instantaneous selecting the best severed eNB for cell edge users based on limited signaling overhead in uplink radio interface. DCS with muting scheme further apply muting to the strongest neighbor cell for decreasing interference to cell edge users. However the system spectrum efficiency may be degraded, since frequency reuse one is not maintained and radio resource (resource block and power) may not be fully used. An enhanced DCS with muting method is proposed here to further improve the frequency and power efficiency, by using adaptive muting mode selection based on capacity calculation and flexible power allocation based on muting mode selection status. Performance evaluation shows the proposed algorithm can provide about 5.5% cell average throughput gain and about 10% cell edge throughput gain respectively compared with conventional DCS schemes.
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enhanced dynamic cell selection with muting scheme for dl comp in lte a
Vehicular Technology Conference, 2010Co-Authors: Minghai Feng, Lan Chen, Yoshihisa KishiyamaAbstract:CoMP JP (Coordinated Multi-Point Joint Processing) is regarded as a promising technique to improve both cell edge user throughput and cell average user throughput in LTE-A downlink. CoMP JP can be categorized as CoMP JT (Joint Transmission) and COMP DCS (Dynamic Cell Selection). Compared with CoMP JT schemes, CoMP DCS provides a good trade-off between the transmission algorithm complexity, backhaul overhead and system performance. Conventional DCS scheme can benefit cell edge users by instantaneous selecting the best severed eNB for cell edge users based on limited signaling overhead in uplink radio interface. DCS with muting scheme further apply muting to the strongest neighbor cell for decreasing interference to cell edge users. However the system spectrum efficiency may be degraded, since frequency reuse one is not maintained and radio resource (resource block and power) may not be fully used. An enhanced DCS with muting method is proposed here to further improve the frequency and power efficiency, by using adaptive muting mode selection based on capacity calculation and flexible power allocation based on muting mode selection status. Performance evaluation shows the proposed algorithm can provide about 5.5% cell average throughput gain and about 10% cell edge throughput gain respectively compared with conventional DCS schemes.
