EDINBURGH University Press Chapter Title: The Tupse Amaru Rebellion Chapter: Author(s John Beverley Book Title: A Historical Companion te Postcolonial Literstures - Continental Europe and Hs Empires Book Eaitorts: Prem Poddar. Rajeev S. Patke, Lars Tenstn, John Beverley. Charles Foradick, Plerre-Philippe Fraiture, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Theo Dh'en, Lars Sehsen, Birthe Kundrus, Elizabeth Monssterios ond Phillip Rothwell Published by’ Edinburgh University Press Stable URL: https://www jstor-org/stable/10:3966/j.cttIgOb6vw 246 ———————FF$.LO Egret coe in irene iit rs time xia te, a ld ag Fate Poems of hel fo mre nr a SST aaa ease FORTIS TO tc te yor apa of he Term dns Ue at JSTOR "TEE E pe rews Sin, Lain Amerie and he Pipines Grsfogel, Ramén (Forthcoming), ‘Decolonsing Polital-Econory and Post Colonist Stulies:|Transmodemit, Boeder Thinking, and Glotal Colona, in R. Grovfagel, J. D. Saldivar and N. 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Gender dels ond Class in Ince nd Cobnial Per, Princeton, NJ- Princeton University Press Wroner, Syvia (200%), “Unseting the Colonaliy of Being/Fower/Trutheedom ‘Towards the Human, ster Man, its Overepresntation = An Argument, New Cereal Review 3 (3): 257-337 ‘The Tépne Amaru Rebellion ‘The Tupac Amaru Rebellion, an Indian-ted movement that spe across the southern highlands of whats todiy Andean Pars and Boivs between 1760 and 1782, was the Sst ‘ofthe great anti-clonialrsblions inthe modern word (che Ammrican revolution of 1776, which preceded and may in pare have Influenced it, wat noe properly speaking & sebellion by acolonised population, burther an uprising of European manly Bish set lets, agin polities domination bythe Bish crown). At its igh in cath 178, he ‘ebelin fected a terior ranging from stuthern Colombia to northern Arpentina, and came ety lsew defesing Spanish clonal rule n South Americ. ‘The eelion cakes is name fom its leader, Jove Gabriel Condercan gu, Topac Amaru, who was a prominent ig from the Caco aie, one afte dsconltr of the Br aitoracy given a special tole by the Spanish authorities as Intamedivies between ‘hemselves und semtauconamnous communities of the socalled tepublc of Inline CCondorcangui claimed to bea ditect descendant of the las of the great Inca kgs, Tips Amaru, bdbaded bythe Spanish in 1572, and took name cllinghinel Tipe Amar IL The immediate ease ofthe rebellion ay in givances caved bya ses of mesma ‘efarns ofthe cof adiinksation implemented by dhe Bourbon monarchy in Spain under Chores I (1759-88), cenwalsing lminismive and economic contol snd 12833749113 on We 1 ng a021 10727 UTC. ‘ie opinesThe Tipac Amaru Reblion cor placing heavier ax and labour buseos on both the Indian and Creoe population, The focus of discontent was che main representative ofthe ohn in Per, the estado oneal José Antonio Arash. ological the ebelion was complex. Aone level, expressed imply a demand on the Spanish authorities fr charges und reforms within the suture of cobiial ule, en speaking inthe name ofthe king himsl fr example At another, ienvsoned an over throw of European rule and something hea restoration of the pre-conques Inca emt, the Tahuantnsuyo. Tupac Amaru claim tobe the legiimate descendant ofthe Ince 3 este the posit of an astocratie state similar to the one envisioned in the sixteenth century by the meso writer, Ina Garis de a Vega, who sw the Ines a sharing rule with the Spanish aritocracy. Buc there were also song rallenarin, proto lacein and even proro-communist elements inthe rebellion. Inthe main, the soldiers ofthe “Tupamarisaamies were poor Indian peasant, artisans and women, who sw the rcelion ‘not so much as 2 quiston of forms or powet sharing but a an onportniy to “um she ‘word upside down. The restoration ofthe Inea Empire meant fr them the possiblity of egalitarian sciey, based economealyon che Inea communal agricultural sytem, the axl, andone without esas (rca dvs) rich and poor, o forced labour in hacienda, ‘mines and fctoies, particularly the dreaded texte il ‘The disturbances that led up co the rebellion brake out fst inthe southern city of ‘Arequipa in early 1780, bu its mai focus later in the year was the region in and around the af incs catia of Caco The movements enerhip ws heeregenesun ncing besides Tague Amaru himself and his media family his wife Micaela was a biliant nlcary aegis in er on ght ~ ther aciqus, mets, Creoles ev Sania Atthe hight ofthe rbllon in cai TI, Tape Amor ares one ‘ot ofthe Andean repo of Peru and had entered ino an alliance witha pra wor ingle by Tipac Katar of Ammar-speaking indian in the region around the Lake Titeara andthe ceyofLa Pn whats toy Bob ‘Agnins his wifes advice, however, Tépue Amari hesitated to aack Cusco ine Finally in Jarwary 178, he mounted a sige of Cusco, but the efoe came 00 lat, ad be wos unable to take the cicy. The rebellion lt momentum internal dvsons beg to spent The Spun Inunched a accel counrerffensive, binging oop rom the ‘court. Tpac Amaru, along with is wife and ozher leaders ofthe rebellion were capated and brought in chains to Cuzco in Apel 176, wherein the presence ofthe hated via dor Arece, they were executed nthe al la, Tupac Amar ong me ca of then he wasted co fur horses tobe pulled apart. When ths led, Areche ordered hm bchcoded and his body cut into pees: these were ate exhibited throughoue the towns of the region. “The retellion id no end with Tpac Amani capture and executlon; but i gradually began to break apart and the Spanish were able co suppres the lot pockets of eitance bythe end of 1762. What fllowed was something lke 2 ‘second’ conquest of the Andes, Eling witha domston oll vexigelthe ona naan ar unde the rebellion, inching a poh on the wie of Chest. Tupac Amar soften cep: sented in offcial Latin Amesiean histories foreriner of the independence moverent led by Simon Bolivar and the Creole ites inthe fst quarter ofthe nineteenth century Buthad the rebellion he ed eriumphed, i would have resulted nan entirely diferent state and society fom what Latin America became ster independence ~one that would bave Teen ifan-cenred and ratnb more egalfarian han the new nation sates created and dominated bythe Creoles. Such an outcome would ave had in tur, an enormous Tesrunett, pee eee it Kevcy jon? |08 Sin, Lan Ameria onthe Philpines pottve impact on the Hala revolution and on Indian rstance throughout the ‘Ameri. John Beveroy Lrenanr Wonks Argued, Joot Maria (1962), Tipe Amaru Kana Taytnchoman: sta. A nueiro padre creador Tac Amu: hino-ctcin, Lim Ediciones Salant), -Morave, Ls Ambrosio (1924), Tipue-Amara, drama en nc acta, oa de 1821, Buenos ‘ites: Cant, Hesronies ‘Ammold, Dene (1992), ‘usoduccca’ in D. 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