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Author : Hyde Clarke
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375168735
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
Author : Hyde Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : India
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004919549
Author : Hyde Clarke
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230284958
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ... and Hindostan are abundant and of superior description, and in consequence of the great competition between the native dealers, cheaper than in the plains. Christchurch, built by subscription, and finished in 1837, is a neat slated structure with a turret. The Himalaya club had, in 1842, 155 members. The clubhouse contains accommodation for sixteen resident members, who have each a sittingroom, bed-room, and bath. There are besides a handsome ball-room, two billiard-rooms, a diningroom, and coffee-room, with all accommodation suitable for such an establishment. To these it was intended to add a reading-room, supplied with the best periodicals. In this flourishing little settlement there are two well-managed and successful schools for young ladies, and one for boys. Beer is brewed from native barley and English hops, and the result has been so encouraging that a large brewery has been set up. A bank was established in 1841, and has been very successful. A humble botanic garden, subsidiary to that of Saharunpoor, is managed here by natives, at the expense of 66 rupees ( 6 12s.) per month. Of the diseases contracted in the plains, the effects of a residence here are found favorable to fevers of intermittent and remittent type, dyspepsia, dysentery, liver complaint, pulmonary consumption, rheumatism, general debility, or exhaustion of the constitution. Affections of the heart have had invariably a fatal result. Children thrive remarkably here, though there have been some instances of their being affected with bronchocele or goitre, which has, however, been cured by administering iodine. Mussooree is distant north-west from Calcutta, by Lucknow, Bareilly, Hurdwar, and Dehra, 983 miles. Elevation above the sea, 6,282 feet. Lat. 30 27';...
Author : Hyde Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : India
ISBN : OXFORD:600024476
Author : Dane Kennedy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520311008
Perched among peaks that loom over heat-shimmering plains, hill stations remain among the most curious monuments to the British colonial presence in India. In this engaging and meticulously researched study, Dane Kennedy explores the development and history of the hill stations of the raj. He shows that these cloud-enshrouded havens were sites of both refuge and surveillance for British expatriates: sanctuaries from the harsh climate as well as an alien culture; artificial environments where colonial rulers could nurture, educate, and reproduce themselves; commanding heights from which orders could be issued with an Olympian authority. Kennedy charts the symbolic and sociopolitical functions of the hill stations over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, arguing that these highland communities became much more significant to the British colonial government than mere places for rest and play. Particularly after the revolt of 1857, they became headquarters for colonial political and military authorities. In addition, the hill stations provided employment to countless Indians who worked as porters, merchants, government clerks, domestics, and carpenters. The isolation of British authorities at the hill stations reflected the paradoxical character of the British raj itself, Kennedy argues. While attempting to control its subjects, it remained aloof from Indian society. Ironically, as more Indians were drawn to these mountain areas for work, and later for vacation, the carefully guarded boundaries between the British and their subjects eroded. Kennedy argues that after the turn of the century, the hill stations were increasingly incorporated into the landscape of Indian social and cultural life. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.
Author : Marc Flandreau
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226360447
Beginning with the discovery of a curious plot wherein science became the handmaiden of white-collar crime, Anthropology and the Stock Exchange by economic historian Marc Flandreau tracks a group of Victorian gentlemen-swindlers as they shuffled between the corridors of the London Stock Exchange and the meeting rooms of learned societies. It explores how the commodification of scientific truth became every bit as integral as financial engineering to the profitability of foreign investment and speculation in foreign government debt. Flandreau underscores the crucial role of finance (what he calls "the Stock Exchange Modality") in shaping the contours of human knowledge and vice versa in an age of mercantile expansion. He further argues that a new brand of imperialism, born under Benjamin Disraeli's first term as British Premier, built on the multiple covert links between the birth of social sciences and novel mechanisms of financial revenue creation and extraction. As anthropologists advocated the study of Miskito Indians or stated their views on a Jamaican Rebellion or Abyssinian Expedition, for example, they responded and catered to the impulses of the Stock Exchange. The marriage between anthropological science and finance, Flandreau asserts, formed the foundational structures of late 19th century British Imperialism, which in turn produced essential technologies of globalization.
Author : John Hurd II,Ian J. Kerr
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004231153
India has had operating railways for well-over 150 years: railways that have played a central and well-documented role in the making of India in the colonial and post-colonial eras. This handbook provides a reference guide for researchers interested in almost any facet of the history, colonial and post-colonial, of these railways. The secondary literature is identified and surveyed, primary sources and their locations identified, statistical and cartographic data discussed and presented, and a massive bibliography made available. This handbook is the indispensable tool for anyone seeking to understand India's railways and the roles they played in the making of modern India.
Author : Manu Goswami
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226305103
When did categories such as a national space and economy acquire self-evident meaning and a global reach? Why do nationalist movements demand a territorial fix between a particular space, economy, culture, and people? Producing India mounts a formidable challenge to the entrenched practice of methodological nationalism that has accorded an exaggerated privilege to the nation-state as a dominant unit of historical and political analysis. Manu Goswami locates the origins and contradictions of Indian nationalism in the convergence of the lived experience of colonial space, the expansive logic of capital, and interstate dynamics. Building on and critically extending subaltern and postcolonial perspectives, her study shows how nineteenth-century conceptions of India as a bounded national space and economy bequeathed an enduring tension between a universalistic political economy of nationhood and a nativist project that continues to haunt the present moment. Elegantly conceived and judiciously argued, Producing India will be invaluable to students of history, political economy, geography, and Asian studies.
Author : Nitin Sinha
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783083114
Through a regional focus on Bihar between the 1760s and 1880s, ‘Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India’ reveals the shifting and contradictory nature of the colonial state’s policies and discourses on communication. The volume explores the changing relationship between trade, transport and mobility in India, as evident in the trading and mercantile networks operating at various scales of the economy. Of crucial importance to this study are the ways in which knowledge about roads and routes was collected through practices of travel, tours, surveys, and map-making, all of which benefited the state in its attempts to structure a regime that would regulate ‘undesirable’ forms of mobility.
Author : Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781805260264
Empire Building is a new account of the East India Company’s impact on India, focussing on how it changed the sub-continent’s built environment in the context of defence, urbanisation, and infrastructural development. Rosie Llewellyn-Jones examines these initiatives through a lens of ‘political building’ (using Indian contractors and labourers). Railways, docks, municipal buildings, freemasons’ lodges, hotels, race-courses, barracks, cemeteries, statues, canals–everything the British erected made a political statement, even if unconsciously; hence this book is concerned less with architectural styles, more with subtle infiltration into the minds of those who saw and used these structures. It assesses, in turn, Indian responses to the changing landscape. Indians often reacted favourably to new manufacturing technologies from Britain, like minting and gunpowder, while the British learnt from and adapted local methods. From military engineers and cartography to imported raw metals and steam power, Llewellyn-Jones considers the social and environmental changes wrought by colonialism. This period was marked by a shift from formerly private, Indian-controlled functions, like education, entertainment, trading and healing, to British public institutions like universities, theatres, chambers of commerce and hospitals. Stepping aside from ongoing colonialism debates, this is a fascinating account of India’s physical transformation during the Company period.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Railroads
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215955498
Author : Dipanwita Dasgupta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000885736
This book makes a systematic attempt to explore the environmental history of Darjeeling during the British colonial period (1835-1947), which profoundly transformed the environment of Darjeeling by introducing commercial control over the natural resources. After the foundation of Darjeeling as the hill station for the low-income groups of British administration living in Bengal and Burma, the place was transformed into a social, recreational and commercial centre for the British authorities. The railway construction boom, introduction of tea plantation, the growth of a commercial market for timber and increasing demands for fuel and building materials depleted the forest cover. The less explored regions of Darjeeling attracted the adventure-thirsty Britons. A series of investigations were made on the marketable products, the condition of roads, and quality of soil of these regions. The ethnographic, geological, botanical and zoological study of the Darjeeling was started by the colonial officials in the nineteenth century. In the early stage of expansion of colonialism in Asia, Africa, Australia and South America, the European colonizers faced numerous problems in dealing with the untouched nature. The accumulation of the knowledge of surrounding regions and proper management of the labour became essential for the colonial authority for transformation of the existing environment of the densely forested tropical colonies. Taylor and Francis does not sell or distribute the print editions of this book in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015021095867
Author : Great Britain. India Office. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081886958
Author : India Office Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Indic literature
ISBN : UCAL:B4696853
