European Adventurers In North India

Author : Uma Shanker Pandey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000145090

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European Adventurers in North India by Uma Shanker Pandey Pdf

This book explores how European, particularly French, adventurers shaped early modern India. It highlights the significant contributions of these adventurers in social, political, economic, and intellectual life of north India in the 18th and the 19th centuries. The author examines how the French adventurers played a key role in bringing Western science and ideas to a polity in flux. He examines the role of individuals like René Madec, Sombre, De Boigne, Perron, Gentil, Canaple, Delamarr, Sonson, and Pedrose, who made instrumental contributions in modernising armies of pre-modern states in South Asia. The volume also underlines how French adventurers’ commercial networks developing from their enterprises opened up markets in the heartlands of north India for European consumers. Further, it brings to the fore intellectual pursuits of the leading French figures such as Anquetil Duperron, Polier, Gentil, De Boigne, and Perron, whose engagement with Indian literature opened a new chapter framing studies of the Occident. Rich in French, English, and translated Persian archival resources, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of colonial history, early modern history, military history, and South Asian studies.

Author : C. Grey
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : 8120608534

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European Adventurers of Northern India, 1785 to 1849 by C. Grey Pdf

Includes: European Officers Of Ranjit Singhs Army George Thomas, William Obrien, J.F. Allard, Paolo Di Avita, Charles Masson, Alexander Gardiner And Others.

Author : H. L. O.. Garrett
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Distri
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:799280177

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European Adventurers of Northern India, 1785 to 1849 by H. L. O.. Garrett Pdf

Author : Charles Grey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:65961264

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European Adventurers of Northern India 1785 to 1849 by Charles Grey Pdf

Author : Charles Grey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : OCLC:1356184885

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European Adventures of Northern India, 1785 to 1849 by Charles Grey Pdf

Author : Charles Grey,H. L. O. Garrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : 1911271105

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Firangi by Charles Grey,H. L. O. Garrett Pdf

New edition of a lost classic (first published 1929), now complete with an introduction by the acclaimed writer and historian, William Dalrymple.

Author : C. Grey,Ed. By H.L.O. Garrett
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8185297061

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European Adventures Of Northern India (1785-1849) by C. Grey,Ed. By H.L.O. Garrett Pdf

Author : Charles Grey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : OCLC:458273800

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European Adventures of Northern India, 1785-1849 by Charles Grey Pdf

Author : Jyoti Pandey Sharma
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000841435

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Colonialism, Uprising and the Urban Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Delhi by Jyoti Pandey Sharma Pdf

No other city in the Indian subcontinent can lay claim to having so many lives as Delhi. This book examines Delhi in the politically and culturally dynamic nineteenth century which was marked midway by the 1857 uprising against British colonial rule as a watershed event. Following British occupation, Delhi became a receptacle for encounters between the centuries-old Mughal traditions and the incoming colonial ideal, producing a traditionalism-modernity binary. Employing the built environment lens, the book traces the architectural trajectory of Delhi as it transitioned from the seventeenth-century Mughal Badshahi Shahar (imperial city) first into a culturally hybrid Dilli-Delhi combine of the pre-uprising era and thereafter into a modern British city following the uprising. This transition is presented via four constructs that draw on the traditionalism-modernity binary of Mughal and British Delhi and include Marhoom Dilli (Dead Delhi); Picturesque Delhi; Baaghi Dilli (Insurgent Delhi) and Tamed Delhi. The book goes beyond the nineteenth century to examine the vestiges of Delhi’s four nineteenth-century lives in the present while making a case for their acknowledgement as a cultural asset that can propel the city’s urban development agenda. By bringing together the city’s past and its present as well as addressing its future, the book can count among its readers not just scholars but also those interested in cities and their evolving landscapes.

Author : Sir Jadunath Sarkar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : India
ISBN : MINN:31951001040440H

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Daulat Rao Sindhia and North Indian Affairs, 1810-1818 by Sir Jadunath Sarkar Pdf

Author : Sajal Nag
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000905250

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The Mughals and the North-East by Sajal Nag Pdf

There is a perception that the region of north-east India maintained its ‘splendid isolation’ and remained outside the reach of the Mughals and did not have a pre-colonial past. The present book is an attempt to decenter and demolish the said perceptions and asserts that north-east India had a ‘medieval’ past through linkage with the dominant central power in India – the Mughals. The eastern frontier of this Mughal Empire was constituted by a number of states like Bengal, Koch Bihar, Assam, Manipur, Dimasa, Jaintia, Cachar, Tripura, Khasi confederation, Chittagong, Lushai and the Nagas. Of these, some areas like Bengal were an integral part of the Mughal Empire, while others like Koch Bihar and Assam were in and out of the empire. Tripura, Manipur, Jaintia and Cachar were frequently overrun by the Mughals whenever the State was short of revenue and withdrew soon without incorporating them in the state. Despite not being a formal part of the Mughal Empire, the society, economy, polity and culture of the north-east India, however, had been majorly impacted by the Mughal presence. The brief, but effective advent of the Mughals had supplanted certain political and revenue institutions in various states. It generated trade and commerce, which linked it to the rest of India. A number of wondering Sufi saints, Islamic missionaries, imprisoned Mughal soldiers and officers were settled in various states, which resulted in a substantial Muslim population growth in the region. Besides the population, there are numerous Islamic and syncretic institutions, cultures, and shrines which dot the entire region.

Author : Martin J. Bayly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107118058

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Taming the Imperial Imagination by Martin J. Bayly Pdf

A new perspective on empire, international relations and foreign policy through attention to British colonial knowledge on Afghanistan from 1808 to 1878.

Author : Stephanie Cronin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786734419

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Armies and State-building in the Modern Middle East by Stephanie Cronin Pdf

The uprisings of 2011, which erupted so unexpectedly and spread across the Middle East, once again propelled the armies of the region to the centre of the political stage. Throughout the region, the experience of the first decade of the twenty-first century provides ample reason to re-examine Middle Eastern armies and the historical context which produced them. By adding an historical understanding to a contemporary political analysis, Stephanie Cronin examines the structures and activities of Middle Eastern armies and their role in state- and empire-building. Focusing on Iran, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, Armies, Tribes and States in the Middle East presents a clear and concise analysis of the nature of armies and the differing guises military reform has taken throughout the region. Covering the region from the birth of modern armies there in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, to the military revolutions of the 1950s and 60s and on to the twenty-first century army-building exercises seen in Iraq and Afghanistan, Cronin provides a unique and vital presentation of the role of the military in the modern Middle East.

Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317321286

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Military Manpower, Armies and Warfare in South Asia by Kaushik Roy Pdf

Roy investigates the various factors that influenced the formation and mobilization of military forces in the region from 300 BC to the modern day.

Author : Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Publisher : Primus Books
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9789380607177

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Approaches to History by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya Pdf

History as a social science is arguably more self-reflective than associated disciplines in that family. Other social scientists seem to see little reason to look beyond the paradigm they are developing in the present times. Historians on the other hand, tend to depend on the cumulative process of the development of their craft and the fund of accumulated knowledge. Yet, while this is acknowledged in the practice of research, Historiography in itself as a subject of study has rarely found its place in the syllabi of Indian universities. Knowledge of Historiography is taken for granted when a scholar plunges into research. In an attempt to address this lacuna, the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) has planned a series of volumes on Historiography comprising articles by subject specialists commissioned by the ICHR. The first volume in the series, Approaches to History: Essays in Indian Historiography brings to the readers the first fruits of that endeavour. While the essays encompass areas of research presently at the frontiers of new research, scholars will also find the bibliographies accompanying the essays of significant appeal.