British anti-Muslim prejudice outlasted the 1857 rebellion by decades.
Evidence
As Wilsonβs comment demonstrates, a half century later this view and the passion behind it had not dissipated much among Britons and many members of the colonies. β Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 62
Categorization
- SEED: The longevity of a politically manufactured fear is material for an essay on how colonial tropes are engineered to persist past their ostensible causes.
- XREF: connects to: Mughal religious tolerance tempered some British Islamophobia before 1857 β Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear:β¦, 57; Diminished Muslim threat let British observers admire Mughal culture despite Orientalist negative stereotypes. β Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear:β¦, 52