Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015072484481
Indo-British Review
Anonim
Indo British Review
Indo British Review Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Indo British Review book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Inglorious Empire
Shashi Tharoor
Author : Shashi Tharoor
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0141987146
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.
The British in India
David Gilmour
Author : David Gilmour
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374116859
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.
The British Raj in India
S. M. Burke,Salim al-Din Quraishi
Author : S. M. Burke,Salim al-Din Quraishi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015038409226
The British Raj in India by S. M. Burke,Salim al-Din Quraishi Pdf
A valuable and extremely detailed account of the British Raj in India, and a valuable reference book for scholars.
The British in India
David Gilmour
Author : David Gilmour
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241004531
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.
Empire and Information
Christopher Alan Bayly
Author : Christopher Alan Bayly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0521663601
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.
Ornamentalism
David Cannadine
Author : David Cannadine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 019515794X
Ornamentalism by David Cannadine Pdf
Ornamentalism is a vividly evocative account of a vanished era, a major reassessment of Britain and its imperial past, and a trenchant and disturbing analysis of what it means to be a post-imperial nation today.
The Tears of the Rajas
Ferdinand Mount
Author : Ferdinand Mount
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781471129476
The Tears of the Rajas by Ferdinand Mount Pdf
The Tears of the Rajas is a sweeping history of the British in India, seen through the experiences of a single Scottish family. For a century the Lows of Clatto survived mutiny, siege, debt and disease, everywhere from the heat of Madras to the Afghan snows. They lived through the most appalling atrocities and retaliated with some of their own. Each of their lives, remarkable in itself, contributes to the story of the whole fragile and imperilled, often shockingly oppressive and devious but now and then heroic and poignant enterprise. On the surface, John and Augusta Low and their relations may seem imperturbable, but in their letters and diaries they often reveal their loneliness and desperation and their doubts about what they are doing in India. The Lows are the family of the author's grandmother, and a recurring theme of the book is his own discovery of them and of those parts of the history of the British in India which posterity has preferred to forget. The book brings to life not only the most dramatic incidents of their careers - the massacre at Vellore, the conquest of Java, the deposition of the boy-king of Oudh, the disasters in Afghanistan, the Reliefs of Lucknow and Chitral - but also their personal ordeals: the bankruptcies in Scotland and Calcutta, the plagues and fevers, the deaths of children and deaths in childbirth. And it brings to life too the unrepeatable strangeness of their lives: the camps and the palaces they lived in, the balls and the flirtations in the hill stations, and the hot slow rides through the dust. An epic saga of love, war, intrigue and treachery, The Tears of the Rajas is surely destined to become a classic of its kind.
review of the maritime trade of british india with other countries for the official year 1879-80
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555060195
review of the maritime trade of british india with other countries for the official year 1879-80 by Anonim Pdf
Naoroji
Dinyar Patel
Author : Dinyar Patel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674245372
Naoroji by Dinyar Patel Pdf
Winner of the 2021 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay–NIF Book Prize The definitive biography of Dadabhai Naoroji, the nineteenth-century activist who founded the Indian National Congress, was the first British MP of Indian origin, and inspired Gandhi and Nehru. Mahatma Gandhi called Dadabhai Naoroji the “father of the nation,” a title that today is reserved for Gandhi himself. Dinyar Patel examines the extraordinary life of this foundational figure in India’s modern political history, a devastating critic of British colonialism who served in Parliament as the first-ever Indian MP, forged ties with anti-imperialists around the world, and established self-rule or swaraj as India’s objective. Naoroji’s political career evolved in three distinct phases. He began as the activist who formulated the “drain of wealth” theory, which held the British Raj responsible for India’s crippling poverty and devastating famines. His ideas upended conventional wisdom holding that colonialism was beneficial for Indian subjects and put a generation of imperial officials on the defensive. Next, he attempted to influence the British Parliament to institute political reforms. He immersed himself in British politics, forging links with socialists, Irish home rulers, suffragists, and critics of empire. With these allies, Naoroji clinched his landmark election to the House of Commons in 1892, an event noticed by colonial subjects around the world. Finally, in his twilight years he grew disillusioned with parliamentary politics and became more radical. He strengthened his ties with British and European socialists, reached out to American anti-imperialists and Progressives, and fully enunciated his demand for swaraj. Only self-rule, he declared, could remedy the economic ills brought about by British control in India. Naoroji is the first comprehensive study of the most significant Indian nationalist leader before Gandhi.
The Indo-British Opium Trade and Its Effect
Theodor Christlieb
Author : Theodor Christlieb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Narcotics
ISBN : OXFORD:600021197
The Indo-British Opium Trade and Its Effect by Theodor Christlieb Pdf
The Making of India
Kartar Lalvani
Author : Kartar Lalvani
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472924834
The Making of India by Kartar Lalvani Pdf
The first ever history of India to explore the benefits – institutional, political and civil – of British Colonial Rule on the subcontinent. The story of The Making of India begins in the seventeenth century, when a small seafaring island, one tenth the size of the Indian subcontinent, despatched sailing ships over 11,000 miles on a five-month trading journey in search of new opportunities. In the end they helped build a new nation. The sheer audacity and scale of such an endeavour, the courage and enterprise, have no parallel in world history. This book is the first to assess in a single volume almost all aspects of Britain's remarkable contribution in providing India with its lasting institutional and physical infrastructure, which continues to underpin the world's largest democracy in the twenty-first century.
The Scandal of Empire
Nicholas B. Dirks
Author : Nicholas B. Dirks
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674034266
The Scandal of Empire by Nicholas B. Dirks Pdf
Many have told of the East India Company’s extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one of these men—Warren Hastings—was put on trial by Edmund Burke, it brought the Company’s exploits to the attention of the public. Through the trial and after, the British government transformed public understanding of the Company’s corrupt actions by creating an image of a vulnerable India that needed British assistance. Intrusive behavior was recast as a civilizing mission. In this fascinating, and devastating, account of the scandal that laid the foundation of the British Empire, Nicholas Dirks explains how this substitution of imperial authority for Company rule helped erase the dirty origins of empire and justify the British presence in India. The Scandal of Empire reveals that the conquests and exploitations of the East India Company were critical to England’s development in the eighteenth century and beyond. We see how mercantile trade was inextricably linked with imperial venture and scandalous excess and how these three things provided the ideological basis for far-flung British expansion. In this powerfully written and trenchant critique, Dirks shows how the empire projected its own scandalous behavior onto India itself. By returning to the moment when the scandal of empire became acceptable we gain a new understanding of the modern culture of the colonizer and the colonized and the manifold implications for Britain, India, and the world.
The Meaning of White
Satoshi Mizutani
Author : Satoshi Mizutani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199697700
The Meaning of White by Satoshi Mizutani Pdf
A study of how the 'whiteness' of Europeans was constructed in the colonial situation, using British India of the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a case study.
Malcolm – Soldier, Diplomat, Ideologue of British India
John Malcolm
Author : John Malcolm
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781907909245
Malcolm – Soldier, Diplomat, Ideologue of British India by John Malcolm Pdf
Highly regarded in India and Persia to this day, Sir John Malcolm is remarkably little known in his native Scotland. This book describes his extraordinary journey from modest origins to become a leading player in the transformation of the East India Company from a largely commercial enterprise into an agent of imperial government, during a crucial period of British and Indian political history. Born in 1769, Malcolm was one of seventeen children of a tenant farmer in the Scottish Borders. Leaving school, family and country at thirteen, he achieved distinction in India over the next half-century. A quintessential all-rounder, he excelled in many fields: as a professional soldier he campaigned with Wellington in south India and rose to Major-General; as an administrator, he pacified Central India and later became Governor of Bombay. He led three Company missions to Persia in the early stages of diplomatic rivalry between Britain and Russia, the Great Game. He was fluent in several languages, and wrote nine influential books, including The History of Persia. Based on extensive research in Britain, India and Iran, this biography brings to life the story of a talented and ambitious man living in a dramatic era of imperial history.