“Tipu Sultan: the most famous Indian in Paris before Gandhi and Tagore…”: A Transnational Critique of ‘Outstanding Universal Value’ in Twenty-First Century World Heritage Site Discourse using French Drama on Tipu and the Fortress of Srirangapatna from 1788 to 1949

“Tipu Sultan: the most famous Indian in Paris before Gandhi and Tagore…”: A Transnational Critique of ‘Outstanding Universal Value’ in Twenty-First Century World Heritage Site Discourse using French Drama on Tipu and the Fortress of Srirangapatna from 1788 to 1949

Building on the work of Assayag who highlighted the parallels between Napoleon and Tipu Sultan in the collective imagination of Parisian theatre-goers 1799-1815, this paper pursues a close textual analysis of the spatial representation of Tipu’s fort in two 1813 plays by de Brévannes and de Jouy. Th...

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Main Author: Ian H. Magedera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sarat Centenary College 2019-07-01
Series:PostScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies
Subjects:
19th century French theatre
end of Napoleonic era
peripheral voices
Tipu Sultan
world heritage site
global cultural heritage audit
Online Access:http://postscriptum.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/pS4.iiIan_.pdf

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