A History Of Colonial India

Author : Himanshu Roy,Jawaid Alam
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000508925

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A History of Colonial India by Himanshu Roy,Jawaid Alam Pdf

This volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on British colonial rule in India. It draws on sociology, history, and political science to look at key events and social process, between 1757 to 1947, to provide a comprehensive understanding of the colonial history. It begins with the introductory backdrop of the British East India Company when its ship docked at Surat in 1603 and ends with the partition and independence in 1947. A compelling read, the book explores a range of key themes which include: – Early colonial polity, economic transformation, colonial educational policies, and other initial developments; – The revolt of 1857 and its aftermath; – Colonial subjectivities and ethnographic interventions, colonial capitalism and its insititutions, – Constitutional developments in colonial India; – Early nationalist politics, the rise of Indian National Congress, the role of Gandhi in nationalist politics, and the Quit India movement; – Social movements and gender politics under the colonial rule; – Partition of India and independence. Accessibly written and exhaustive, this volume will be essential reading for students, teachers, scholars, and researchers of political science, history, sociology and literature.

Author : Latika Chaudhary,Bishnupriya Gupta,Tirthankar Roy,Anand V. Swamy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317674337

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A New Economic History of Colonial India by Latika Chaudhary,Bishnupriya Gupta,Tirthankar Roy,Anand V. Swamy Pdf

A New Economic History of Colonial India provides a new perspective on Indian economic history. Using economic theory and quantitative methods, it shows how the discipline is being redefined and how new scholarship on India is beginning to embrace and make use of concepts from the larger field of global economic history and economics. The book discusses the impact of property rights, the standard of living, the labour market and the aftermath of the Partition. It also addresses how education and work changed, and provides a rethinking of traditional topics including de-industrialization, industrialization, railways, balance of payments, and the East India Company. Written in an accessible way, the contributors – all leading experts in their fields – firmly place Indian history in the context of world history. An up-to-date critical survey and novel resource on Indian Economic History, this book will be useful for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Economic History, Indian and South Asian Studies, Economics and Comparative and Global History.

Author : Deana Heath
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192646163

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Colonial Terror by Deana Heath Pdf

Focusing on India between the early nineteenth century and the First World War, Colonial Terror explores the centrality of the torture of Indian bodies to the law-preserving violence of colonial rule and some of the ways in which extraordinary violence was embedded in the ordinary operation of colonial states. Although enacted largely by Indians on Indian bodies, particularly by subaltern members of the police, the book argues that torture was facilitated, systematized, and ultimately sanctioned by first the East India Company and then the Raj because it benefitted the colonial regime, since rendering the police a source of terror played a key role in the construction and maitenance of state sovereignty. Drawing upon the work of both Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, Colonial Terror contends, furthermore, that it is only possible to understand the terrorizing nature of the colonial police in India by viewing colonial India as a 'regime of exception' in which two different forms of exceptionality were in operation - one wrought through the exclusion of particular groups or segments of the Indian population from the law and the other by petty sovereigns in their enactment of illegal violence in the operation of the law. It was in such fertile ground, in which colonial subjects were both included within the domain of colonial law while also being abandoned by it, that torture was able to flourish.

Author : Douglas M. Peers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317882855

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India under Colonial Rule: 1700-1885 by Douglas M. Peers Pdf

Between 1700 and 1885 the British became the paramount power on the Indian subcontinent, their authority extending from Sri Lankain the south to the Himalayasin the north. It was a massive empire, inspiring both pride and anxiety amongst the British, and forcing change upon and disrupting the lives of its Indian subjects. Yet it is not simply a history of conquest and subjugation, or dominance and defeat: interaction and interdependency powerfully shaped the histories of all involved. The end result was a hybrid empire. India may have become by 1885 the jewel in the British crown, but by that same year a series of changes had occurred within Indian society that would set the foundations for the modern states of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. This book provides a concise introduction to these dramatic changes.

Author : Douglas M. Peers,Nandini Gooptu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199259885

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India and the British Empire by Douglas M. Peers,Nandini Gooptu Pdf

Essays by leading historians from around the world combine to create a timely and authoritative assessment of a number of the major themes in the history of modern South Asia.

Author : Siddiqi Majid (Prof.)
Publisher : Aakar Books
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 8187879505

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The British Historical Context and Petitioning in Colonial India by Siddiqi Majid (Prof.) Pdf

Majid Siddiqi Is Professor Of Modern Indian History In The Centre For Historical Studies, School Of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Author : Douglas M. Peers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317882862

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India under Colonial Rule: 1700-1885 by Douglas M. Peers Pdf

Between 1700 and 1885 the British became the paramount power on the Indian subcontinent, their authority extending from Sri Lankain the south to the Himalayasin the north. It was a massive empire, inspiring both pride and anxiety amongst the British, and forcing change upon and disrupting the lives of its Indian subjects. Yet it is not simply a history of conquest and subjugation, or dominance and defeat: interaction and interdependency powerfully shaped the histories of all involved. The end result was a hybrid empire. India may have become by 1885 the jewel in the British crown, but by that same year a series of changes had occurred within Indian society that would set the foundations for the modern states of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. This book provides a concise introduction to these dramatic changes.

Author : Partha Mitter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521443547

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Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850-1922 by Partha Mitter Pdf

Partha Mitter's book is a pioneering study of the history of modern art on the Indian subcontinent from 1850 to 1922. The author tells the story of Indian art during the Raj, set against the interplay of colonialism and nationalism. The work addresses the tensions and contradictions that attended the advent of European naturalism in India, as part of the imperial design for the westernisation of the elite, and traces the artistic evolution from unquestioning westernisation to the construction of Hindu national identity. Through a wide range of literary and pictorial sources, Art and Nationalism in Colonial India balances the study of colonial cultural institutions and networks with the ideologies of the nationalist and intellectual movements which followed. The result is a book of immense significance, both in the context of South Asian history and in the wider context of art history.

Author : Christopher Alan Bayly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0521663601

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Empire and Information by Christopher Alan Bayly Pdf

In a penetrating account of the evolution of British intelligence gathering in India, C. A. Bayly shows how networks of Indian spies were recruited by the British to secure military, political and social information about their subjects. He also examines the social and intellectual origins of these 'native informants', and considers how the colonial authorities interpreted and often misinterpreted the information they supplied. It was such misunderstandings which ultimately contributed to the failure of the British to anticipate the rebellions of 1857. The author argues, however, that even before this, complex systems of debate and communication were challenging the political and intellectual dominance of the European rulers.

Author : Jinee Lokaneeta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Forensic sciences
ISBN : 9780472054398

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The Truth Machines by Jinee Lokaneeta Pdf

"Using case studies and the results of extensive fieldwork, this book considers the nature of state power and legal violence in liberal democracies by focusing on the interaction between law, science, and policing in India. The postcolonial Indian police have often been accused of using torture in both routine and exceptional criminal cases, but they, and forensic psychologists, have claimed that lie detectors, brain scans, and narcoanalysis (the use of "truth serum," Sodium Pentothal) represent a paradigm shift away from physical torture; most state high courts in India have upheld this rationale. The Truth Machines examines the emergence and use of these three scientific techniques to analyze two primary themes. First, the book questions whether existing theoretical frameworks for understanding state power and legal violence are adequate to explain constant innovations of the state. Second, it explores the workings of law, science, and policing in the everyday context to generate a theory of state power and legal violence, challenging the monolithic frameworks about this relationship, based on a study of both state and non-state actors. Jinee Lokaneeta argues that the attempt to replace physical torture with truth machines in India fails because it relies on a confessional paradigm that is contiguous with torture. Her work also provides insights into a police institution that is founded and refounded in its everyday interactions between state and non-state actors. Theorizing a concept of Contingent State, this book demonstrates the disaggregated, and decentered nature of state power and legal violence, creating possible sites of critique and intervention"--

Author : Mark Condos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108418317

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The Insecurity State by Mark Condos Pdf

A provocative examination of how the British colonial experience in India was shaped by chronic unease, anxiety, and insecurity.

Author : Anand A. Yang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520919963

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Bazaar India by Anand A. Yang Pdf

The role of markets in linking local communities to larger networks of commerce, culture, and political power is the central element in Anand A. Yang's provocative and original study. Yang uses bazaars in the northeast Indian state of Bihar during the colonial period as the site of his investigation. The bazaar provides a distinctive locale for posing fundamental questions regarding indigenous societies under colonialism and for highlighting less familiar aspects of colonial India. At one level, Yang reconstructs Bihar's marketing system, from its central place in the city of Patna down to the lowest rung of the periodic markets. But he also concentrates on the dynamics of exchanges and negotiations between different groups and on what can be learned through the "voices" of people in the bazaar: landholders, peasants, traders, and merchants. Along the way, Yang uncovers a wealth of details on the functioning of rural trade, markets, fairs, and pilgrimages in Bihar. A key contribution of Bazaar India is its many-stranded narrative history of some of South Asia's primary actors over the past two centuries. But Yang's approach is not that of a detached observer; rather, his own voice is engaged with the voices of the past and with present-day historians. By focusing on the world beyond the mud walls of the village, he widens the imaginative geography of South Asian history. Readers with an interest in markets, social history, culture, colonialism, British India, and historiographic methods will welcome his book.

Author : Rachel Sturman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107010376

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The Government of Social Life in Colonial India by Rachel Sturman Pdf

This book analyses religious law in colonial India, exploring how it encouraged gender equality and a rethinking of the relationship between state and society.

Author : I. Sengupta,D. Ali
Publisher : Springer
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230119000

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Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Institutions in Colonial India by I. Sengupta,D. Ali Pdf

This volume seeks to revise the Saidian analytical framework which dominated research on the subject of colonial knowledge for almost two decades, which emphasized colonial knowledge as a series of representations of colonial hegemony. It seeks to contribute to research in the field by analyzing knowledge in colonial India as a dynamic process.

Author : B. B. Chaudhuri
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Geschichte
ISBN : 8131716880

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Peasant History of Late Pre-colonial and Colonial India by B. B. Chaudhuri Pdf