Author : John Masters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Communism
ISBN : OSU:32435001274265
Bhowani Junction
John Masters
Bhowani Junction
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Bhowani Junction
John Masters
Author : John Masters
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0143102842
Bhowani Junction by John Masters Pdf
A Magnificent Novel Of Empire And Its Aftermath. The Tensions And Conflicts That Accompanied The Birth Of Modern India Are Grippingly Evoked In John Masters Classic Bhowani Junction. Set In The Late 1940S And First Published In 1954 In The Wake Of Partition, The Novel Has Increased In Stature Over The Years. Bhowani Junction, Along With Masters Other Indian Novels, Now Takes Its Place Alongside E.M. Forster S A Passage To India And The Acclaimed Works Of Such Later Writers As Paul Scott And Salman Rushdie.
Bhowani Junction
John Masters
Author : John Masters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:873055401
Bhowani Junction by John Masters Pdf
Bhowani Junction
John Masters
Author : John Masters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015009055719
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Heart of War
John Masters
Author : John Masters
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 875 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448214785
Heart of War by John Masters Pdf
January 1 1916: Europe is bleeding to death as the corpses rot from Poland to Gallipoli in the cruel grip of the Great War... Heart of War follows the fate and fortunes of the Rowland family and those people bound up in their lives: the Cate squirearchy, the Strattons who manage the Rowland owned factory, and the humble, multi-talented Gorse family. In this all-consuming conflict, not a single family will remain untouched. With Quentin and Boy Rowland fighting in the trenches and Guy flying the skies above, it would be a miracle for the whole family to come home untouched... During the years 1916 and 1917, the appalling slaughter of the Somme and Passchendaele cuts deep into the hearts of British people as military conscription looms over Britain for the first time in a thousand years. As babies are born, fathers, sons and brothers killed, and women strike out in the work-place, Britain looks to never be the same again. First published in 1980 – book two in a three volume saga including Now, God be Thanked, and By The Green of Spring – Heart of War explores the emotional turmoil of Britain at war from every angle: from the eyes of the upper class aristocracy who are losing their grip on power, to the lower classes rising up as they fight alongside those previously thought their betters.
“Quit India”
Dror Izhar
Author : Dror Izhar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443832472
“Quit India” by Dror Izhar Pdf
This book looks at the changing image of the Indian Patriot’s war for India’s Independence and its reflection, which were shown during the Cold War period on the screens of commercial British films and TV. By using a variety of primary and secondary sources, as demonstrated by utilizing Gramsci’s theory of Common Sense/Folklore, the author traces the evolution of the Indian Patriot from a ‘villain’ to a ‘saint,’ and the British Colonials from ‘kind’ to ‘mediocre’ and even ‘evil’ personalities.
Inventing India
R. Crane
Author : R. Crane
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230380080
Inventing India by R. Crane Pdf
Working at the interface of historical and fictional writing, Ralph Crane considers the history of India from the Revolt of 1857 to the Emergency of 1975 as it is presented in the works of twentieth-century novelists, both Indian and British, who have written about particular periods of Indian history from within various periods of literary history. A constant thread in the book is the exploration of the use of paintings as iconography and allegory, used in the novels to reveal aspects of British-Indian relationships.
Our Indian Railway
Roopa Srinivasan,Manish Tiwari,Sandeep Silas
Author : Roopa Srinivasan,Manish Tiwari,Sandeep Silas
Publisher : Foundation Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 8175963301
Our Indian Railway by Roopa Srinivasan,Manish Tiwari,Sandeep Silas Pdf
This book commemorates 150 years of railways in India. Introduced under colonial rule in the second half of the nineteenth century, the railways soon embraced the length and breadth of India bringing with it rapid political, economic, ecological and cultural changes. The articles in this book explore the impact of this technological phenomenon from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives. From early railway thinking in renaissance Bengal, to railway policing in Uttar Pradesh and issues of management to railway themes in literature, the writers in this volume reveal the world of the railways in all its exciting facets. The photo essay invokes the nostalgic world of steam with a series of evocative images. In the twenty-first century, the ever expanding horizon of the railways continues to draw in people and goods in the third largest railway network in the world.
'The Eurasian Question'
Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson
Author : Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson
Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9789087047313
'The Eurasian Question' by Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson Pdf
‘Within the borders of these isles shall remain a race one calls Indo. Neither white, nor brown.’ This ‘Indo’ was part of the Indo-Europeans, a group of mixed indigenous and European ancestry, from the former Dutch East Indies. In almost all other Asian colonies, including British India and French Indochina, which are also covered in this study, such a group of mixed ancestry came into being. The future of these Eurasians after decolonisation was quite insecure. The European rulers, on which their status was based, were gone. The new indigenous rulers perceived them suspiciously as colonial remnants and often even as traitors. In this chaotic situation, they were forced to make a choice, between staying in the former colony or leaving for the European mother country. Did they belong in the country of their European fathers or the former colony, the country of their Asian mothers?
What Price Hollywood?
Elyce Rae Helford
Author : Elyce Rae Helford
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813179322
What Price Hollywood? by Elyce Rae Helford Pdf
During the early Hollywood sound era, studio director George Cukor produced nearly fifty films in as many years, famously winning the Best Director Oscar at the 1964 Academy Awards for My Fair Lady. His collaborations with so-called difficult actresses such as Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, and Marilyn Monroe unsettled producers even as his ticket sales lined their pockets. Fired from Gone with the Wind for giving Vivien Leigh more screen time than Clark Gable, Cukor quickly earned a double-sided reputation as a "woman's director." While the label celebrated his ability to help actresses deliver their best performances, the epithet also branded the gay director as suitable only for work on female-centered movies such as melodramas and romantic comedies. Desperate for success after a failed drag film nearly ended his career, Cukor swore to work within Hollywood's constraints. Nevertheless, What Price Hollywood? Gender and Sex in the Films of George Cukor finds that Cukor continued to explore gender and sexuality on-screen. Drawing on a broad array of theoretical lenses, Elyce Rae Helford examines how Cukor's award-winning films—titles including My Fair Lady and The Philadelphia Story—as well as his lesser-known films engage Hollywood masculinity and gender performativity through camp, drag, and mixed genres. Blending biography with critical analysis of more than twenty-five films, What Price Hollywood? tells the story of a once-in-a-generation director who produced some of the best films in history.
Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties
Foster Hirsch
Author : Foster Hirsch
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780307958938
Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties by Foster Hirsch Pdf
A fascinating look at Hollywood’s most turbulent decade and the demise of the studio system—set against the boom of the post–World War II years, the Cold War, and the atomic age—and the movies that reflected the seismic shifts Hollywood in the 1950s was a period when the film industry both set conventions and broke norms and traditions—from Cinerama, CinemaScope, and VistaVision to the epic film and lavish musical. It was a decade that saw the rise of the anti-hero; the smoldering, the hidden, and the unspoken; teenagers gone wild in the streets; the sacred and the profane; the revolution of the Method; the socially conscious; the implosion of the studios; the end of the production code; and the invasion of the ultimate body snatcher: the “small screen” television. Here is Eisenhower’s America—seemingly complacent, conformity-ridden revealed in Vincente Minnelli’s Father of the Bride, Walt Disney’s Cinderella, and Brigadoon, among others. And here is its darkening, resonant landscape, beset by conflict, discontent, and anxiety (The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Asphalt Jungle, A Place in the Sun, Touch of Evil, It Came From Outer Space) . . . an America on the verge of cultural, political and sexual revolt, busting up and breaking out (East of Eden, From Here to Eternity, On the Waterfront, Sweet Smell of Success, The Wild One, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Jailhouse Rock). An important, riveting look at our nation at its peak as a world power and at the political, cultural, sexual upheavals it endured, reflected and explored in the quintessential American art form.
Englishness and Empire 1939-1965
Wendy Webster
Author : Wendy Webster
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191647574
Englishness and Empire 1939-1965 by Wendy Webster Pdf
Did loss of imperial power and the end of empire have any significant impact on British culture and identity after 1945? Within a burgeoning literature on national identity and what it means to be British this is a question that has received surprisingly little attention. Englishness and Empire makes an important and original contribution to recent debates about the domestic consequences of the end of empire. Wendy Webster explores popular narratives of nation in the mainstream media archive - newspapers, newsreels, radio, film, and television. The contours of the study generally follow stories told through prolific filmic and television imagery: the Second World War, the Coronation and Everest, colonial wars of the 1950s, and Winston Churchill's funeral. The book analyses three main narratives that conflicted and collided in the period - a Commonwealth that promised to maintain Britishness as a global identity; siege narratives of colonial wars and immigration that showed a 'little England' threatened by empire and its legacies; and a story of national greatness, celebrating the martial masculinity of British officers and leaders, through which imperial identity leaked into narratives of the Second World War developed after 1945. The book also explores the significance of America to post-imperial Britain. Englishness and Empire considers how far, and in what contexts and unexpected places, imperial identity and loss of imperial power resonated in popular narratives of nataion. As the first monograph to investigate the significance of empire and its legacies in shaping national identity after 1945, this is an important study for all scholars interested in questions of national identity and their intersections with gender, race, empire, immigration, and decolonization.
Britain's Anglo-Indians
Rochelle Almeida
Author : Rochelle Almeida
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498545891
Britain's Anglo-Indians by Rochelle Almeida Pdf
Anglo-Indians form the human legacy created and left behind on the Indian subcontinent by European imperialism. When Independence was achieved from the British Raj in 1947, an exodus numbering an estimated 50,000 emigrated to Great Britain between 1948–62, under the terms of the British Nationality Act of 1948. But sixty odd years after their resettlement in Britain, the “First Wave” Anglo-Indian immigrant community continues to remain obscure among India’s global diaspora. This book examines and critiques the convoluted routes of adaptation and assimilation employed by immigrant Anglo-Indians in the process of finding their niche within the context of globalization in contemporary multi-cultural Britain. As they progressed from immigrants to settlers, they underwent a cultural metamorphosis. The homogenizing labyrinth of ethnic cultures through which they negotiated their way—Indian, Anglo-Indian, then Anglo-Saxon—effaced difference but created yet another hybrid identity: British Anglo-Indianness. Through meticulous ethnographic field research conducted amidst the community in Britain over a decade, Rochelle Almeida provides evidence that immigrant Anglo-Indians remain on the cultural periphery despite more than half a century. Indeed, it might be argued that they have attained virtual invisibility—in having created an altogether interesting new amalgamated sub-culture in the UK, this Christian minority has ceased to be counted: both, among South Asia’s diaspora and within mainstream Britain. Through a critical scrutiny of multi-ethnic Anglophone literature and cinema, the modes and methods they employed in seeking integration and the reasons for their near-invisibility in Britain as an immigrant South Asian community are closely examined in this much-needed volume.
The Great Indian Railways
Arup K. Chatterjee
Author : Arup K. Chatterjee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9789388414234
The Great Indian Railways by Arup K. Chatterjee Pdf
Following an experimental railway track at Chintadripet, in 1835, the battle for India's first railroad was fought bitterly between John Chapman's Great Indian Peninsular Railway and Rowland MacDonald Stephenson's East India Railway Company, which was merged with Dwarkanauth Tagore's Great Western of Bengal Railway. Even at the height of the Mutiny of 1857, Bahadur Shah Zafar promised Indian owned railway tracks for native merchants if Badshahi rule was restored in Delhi. From Jules Verne to Rudyard Kipling to Mark Twain to Rabindranath Tagore to Nirad C. Chaudhuri to R.K. Narayan and Ruskin Bond-the aura of Indian trains and railway stations have enchanted many writers and poets. With iconic cinematography from The Apu Trilogy, Aradhana, Sonar Kella, Sholay, Gandhi, Dil Se, Parineeta, Barfi, Gangs of Wasseypur, and numerous others, Indian cinema has paved the way for mythical railroads in the national psyche. The Great Indian Railways takes us on a historic adventure through many junctions of India's hidden railway legends, for the first time in a book replete with anecdotes from imperial politics, European and Indian accounts, the battlefronts of the Indian nationalist movement, Indian cinema, songs, advertisements, and much more, in an ever-expanding cultural biography of the Great Indian Railways. Dubbed as 'one of a kind' this awe-inspiring saga is 'compulsive reading.' 'In this fascinating cultural history, Arup K Chatterjee charts the extraordinary journey of the Indian Railways, from the laying of the very first sleeper to the first post-Independence bogey. It evokes our collective accumulation of those innumerable memories of platform chai and rail-gaadi stories, bringing alive through myriad voices and tales the biography of one of India's defining public institutions.' – Shashi Tharoor, Author, M.P., Lok Sabha 'The Great Indian Railways is a fascinating and well-researched cultural biography of the Indian Railways-those intricate arteries of the soul of India, as have been experienced, written, filmed, and dreamed. We cannot all travel by rail to know India, as Gandhiji did, but we can and should read this book!' – Tabish Khair, Author, Professor
Lord Cornwallis Is Dead
Nico Slate
Author : Nico Slate
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674989153
Lord Cornwallis Is Dead by Nico Slate Pdf
Do democracies bring about greater equality among their citizens? India embraced universal suffrage in 1947 and yet its citizens are far from realizing equality. The U.S. struggles with intolerance and inequality well into the twenty-first century. Nico Slate offers a new look at the struggle for freedom that linked two former British colonies.
