Britain In India 1858 1947

Author : Lionel Knight
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857285270

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Britain in India, 18581947 by Lionel Knight Pdf

‘Britain in India, 1858–1947’ seeks to trace the last 90 years of British rule in the light of modern historical debates. The volume examines the ambiguities of British rule that followed from the post-Mutiny settlement: the tensions between an authoritarian bureaucracy and the promise of a liberal vision of the future, and between imperial interests and the growing coordination of Indian aspirations for self-rule. The volume analyses these tensions with reference to contemporary historical debates, and traces them through changing international relations and world wars to Indian independence and partition in 1947.

Author : KNIGHT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9380601921

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Britain in India, 1858-1947 by KNIGHT Pdf

Author : Ajay Gehlawat
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781783083251

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The “Slumdog” Phenomenon by Ajay Gehlawat Pdf

“The ‘Slumdog’ Phenomenon” addresses multiple issues related to “Slumdog Millionaire” and, in the process, provides new ways of looking at this controversial film. Each of the book’s four sections considers a particular aspect of the film: its relation to the nation, to the slum, to Bollywood and its reception. The volume provides a critical overview of the key issues and debates stemming from the film, and allows readers to reexamine them in light of the anthology’s multiple perspectives.

Author : Robert W. Stern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 052100912X

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Changing India by Robert W. Stern Pdf

The revised edition of Robert Stern's book brings India's story up to date. Since its original publication in 1993, much has altered and yet central to the author's argument remains his belief in the remarkable continuity and vitality of India's social systems and its resilience in the face of change. This is a colourful, readable and comprehensive introduction to modern India. In a journey through its family households and villages, the author explains its long-lived and little understood caste and class systems, its venerable faiths and extraordinary ethnic diversity, its history as 'the jewel in the crown' of British imperialism and its post-Independence career as a major agricultural and industrial nation. While paradoxes abound in an India which is constantly transforming, Stern demonstrates how and why it remains the largest and most enduring democracy in the developing world.

Author : Shashi Tharoor
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0141987146

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Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor Pdf

Inglorious Empire' tells the real story of the British in India from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj, revealing how Britain's rise was built upon its plunder of India. In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation. British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor takes on and demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial "gift" - from the railways to the rule of law -was designed in Britain's interests alone. He goes on to show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India's deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile industry.

Author : Rehana Ahmed,Sumita Mukherjee
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441117564

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South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858 - 1947 by Rehana Ahmed,Sumita Mukherjee Pdf

An alternative view of imperial history, exploring the pioneering ways in which South Asians within Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism.

Author : Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199095582

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Archiving the British Raj by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya Pdf

The archives are generally sites where historians conduct research into our past. Seldom are they objects of research. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya traces the path that led to the creation of a central archive in India, from the setting up of the Imperial Record Department, the precursor of the National Archives of India, and the Indian Historical Records Commission, to the framing of archival policies and the change in those policies over the years. In the last two decades of colonial rule in India, there were anticipations of freedom in many areas of the public sphere. These were felt in the domain of archiving as well, chiefly in the form of reversal of earlier policies. From this perspective, Bhattacharya explores the relation between knowledge and power and discusses how the World Wars and the decline of Britain, among other factors, effected a transition from a Eurocentric and disparaging approach to India towards a more liberal and less ethnocentric one.

Author : Alfred D. F. Gabb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Anglo-Indians
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110205254

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1600-1947, Anglo-Indian Legacy by Alfred D. F. Gabb Pdf

Author : David Gilmour
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241004531

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The British in India by David Gilmour Pdf

The British in this book lived in India from shortly a er the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. Who were they? What drove these men and women to risk their lives on long voyages down the Atlantic and across the Indian Ocean or later via the Suez Canal? And when they got to India, what did they do and how did they live? This book explores the lives of the many different sorts of Briton who went to India: viceroys and offcials, soldiers and missionaries, planters and foresters, merchants, engineers, teachers and doctors. It evokes the three and a half centuries of their ambitions and experiences, together with the lives of their families, recording the diversity of their work and their leisure, and the complexity of their relationships with the peoples of India. It also describes the lives of many who did not t in with the usual image of the Raj: the tramps and rascals, the men who 'went native', the women who scorned the role of the traditional memsahib. David Gilmour has spent decades researching in archives, studying the papers of many people who have never been written about before, to create a magni cent tapestry of British life in India. is exceptional work of scholarly recovery portrays individuals with understanding and humour, and makes an original and engaging contribution to a long and important period of British and Indian history.

Author : Denis Judd
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0192803581

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The Lion and the Tiger by Denis Judd Pdf

An authoritative and lively account of the long and controversial history of the British in India, from the foundation of the East India Company in 1600; to Ghandi's innovative leadership of the increasingly militant Indian Nationalist movement: and finally to Lord Mountbatten's 'swift surgeryof partition', leaving behind the Independent states of India and Pakistan.Against this epic backdrop, Judd explores the consequences of British control for both Indians and the British in India.What was the effect on their daily lives, and on the lives they were effectively controlling? Were the British intent on development or exploitation? Were they a 'civilizing'force? Easy answers are avoided, and difficult questions provoked in this fascinating book.

Author : Penderel Moon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1235 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : India
ISBN : 8190109820

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The British conquest and dominion of India by Penderel Moon Pdf

Author : C.H. Philips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : India
ISBN : OCLC:278387994

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The Evolution of India and Pakistan, 1858 to 1947 by C.H. Philips Pdf

Author : David Gilmour
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374116859

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The British in India by David Gilmour Pdf

An immersive portrait of the lives of the British in India, from the seventeenth century to Independence Who of the British went to India, and why? We know about Kipling and Forster, Orwell and Scott, but what of the youthful forestry official, the enterprising boxwallah, the fervid missionary? What motivated them to travel halfway around the globe, what lives did they lead when they got there, and what did they think about it all? Full of spirited, illuminating anecdotes drawn from long-forgotten memoirs, correspondence, and government documents, The British in India weaves a rich tapestry of the everyday experiences of the Britons who found themselves in “the jewel in the crown” of the British Empire. David Gilmour captures the substance and texture of their work, home, and social lives, and illustrates how these transformed across the several centuries of British presence and rule in the subcontinent, from the East India Company’s first trading station in 1615 to the twilight of the Raj and Partition and Independence in 1947. He takes us through remote hill stations, bustling coastal ports, opulent palaces, regimented cantonments, and dense jungles, revealing the country as seen through British eyes, and wittily reveling in all the particular concerns and contradictions that were a consequence of that limited perspective. The British in India is a breathtaking accomplishment, a vivid and balanced history written with brio, elegance, and erudition.

Author : Romesh Chunder Dutt
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415244935

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The Economic History of India Under Early British Rule by Romesh Chunder Dutt Pdf

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Byron Farwell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0393308022

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Armies of the Raj by Byron Farwell Pdf

With a profusion of anecdotes conveying the character of India under British rule. Farwell offers a panoramic survey of the Indian army during the 90 years between the Sepoy Revolt and the births of independent India and Pakistan ...