Mountstuart Elphinstone In South Asia

Author : Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190092658

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Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia by Shah Mahmoud Hanifi Pdf

Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859), Lowland Scottish traveller, East India Company civil servant and educator, was one of the principal intellectual architects of British colonial rule in South Asia. Imbued with liberal views, such that Bombay's wealthy founded Elphinstone College in his memory, he pioneered the scholarly, scientific and administrative foundations of imperialism in India. Elphinstone's career was launched when he was picked to lead the inaugural British diplomatic mission to the Afghan court. His Account of the Kingdom of Caubul (1815) became the main source of British information about Afghanistan. He is best known for his periods as Resident at Poona and Governor of Bombay in the 1810s and 1820s, when he instituted innovative and lasting policies in administration and education while also conducting research for his extremely influential History of India (1841). This volume examines Mountstuart Elphinstone's intellectual contributions and administrative career in their own right, in relation to prominent contemporaries including Charles Metcalfe and William Moorcroft, and in the context of later historical study of India, Afghanistan, British imperialism and its imperial frontiers.

Author : Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190914400

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Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia by Shah Mahmoud Hanifi Pdf

Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859), Lowland Scottish traveller, East India Company civil servant and educator, was one of the principal intellectual architects of British colonial rule in South Asia. Imbued with liberal views, such that Bombay's wealthy founded Elphinstone College in his memory, he pioneered the scholarly, scientific and administrative foundations of imperialism in India. Elphinstone's career was launched when he was picked to lead the inaugural British diplomatic mission to the Afghan court. His Account of the Kingdom of Caubul (1815) became the main source of British information about Afghanistan. He is best known for his periods as Resident at Poona and Governor of Bombay in the 1810s and 1820s, when he instituted innovative and lasting policies in administration and education while also conducting research for his extremely influential History of India (1841). This volume examines Mountstuart Elphinstone's intellectual contributions and administrative career in their own right, in relation to prominent contemporaries including Charles Metcalfe and William Moorcroft, and in the context of later historical study of India, Afghanistan, British imperialism and its imperial frontiers.

Author : Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190092603

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Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia by Shah Mahmoud Hanifi Pdf

Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859), Lowland Scottish traveller, East India Company civil servant and educator, was one of the principal intellectual architects of British colonial rule in South Asia. Imbued with liberal views, such that Bombay's wealthy founded Elphinstone College in his memory, he pioneered the scholarly, scientific and administrative foundations of imperialism in India. Elphinstone's career was launched when he was picked to lead the inaugural British diplomatic mission to the Afghan court. His Account of the Kingdom of Caubul (1815) became the main source of British information about Afghanistan. He is best known for his periods as Resident at Poona and Governor of Bombay in the 1810s and 1820s, when he instituted innovative and lasting policies in administration and education while also conducting research for his extremely influential History of India (1841). This volume examines Mountstuart Elphinstone's intellectual contributions and administrative career in their own right, in relation to prominent contemporaries including Charles Metcalfe and William Moorcroft, and in the context of later historical study of India, Afghanistan, British imperialism and its imperial frontiers.

Author : Thomas Edward Colebrooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108294928

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Life of the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone by Thomas Edward Colebrooke Pdf

The life and work of one of Britain's colonial administrators in India, who eventually became Governor of Bombay.

Author : Mountstuart Elphinstone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108131445

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Selections from the Minutes and Other Official Writings of the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay by Mountstuart Elphinstone Pdf

Beginning with an account of Elphinstone's life, this 1884 collection of the statesman's writings commemorates his role in Indian history.

Author : Mountstuart Elphinstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : India
ISBN : OXFORD:600053679

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The History of India by Mountstuart Elphinstone Pdf

Author : Mountstuart Elphinstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN : ONB:+Z183928807

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An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and Its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India by Mountstuart Elphinstone Pdf

Author : Gareth Knapman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315452159

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Race and British Colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1770-1870 by Gareth Knapman Pdf

The idea of "race" played an increasing role in nineteenth-century British colonial thought. For most of the nineteenth century, John Crawfurd towered over British colonial policy in South-East Asia, being not only a colonial administrator, journalist and professional lobbyist, but also one of the key racial theorists in the British Empire. He approached colonialism as a radical liberal, proposing universal voting for all races in British colonies and believing all races should have equal legal rights. Yet at the same time, he also believed that races represented distinct species of people, who were unrelated. This book charts the development of Crawfurd’s ideas, from the brief but dramatic period of British rule in Java, to his political campaigns against James Brooke and British rule in Borneo. Central to Crawfurd’s political battles were the debates he had with his contemporaries, such as Stamford Raffles and William Marsden, over the importance of race and his broader challenge to universal ideas of history, which questioned the racial unity of humanity. The book taps into little explored manuscripts, newspapers and writings to uncover the complexity of a leading nineteenth-century political and racial thinker whose actions and ideas provide a new view of British liberal, colonial and racial thought.

Author : Michael S. Dodson,Brian A. Hatcher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136484452

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Trans-Colonial Modernities in South Asia by Michael S. Dodson,Brian A. Hatcher Pdf

Presenting cutting-edge scholarship dedicated to exploring the emergence and articulation of modernity in colonial South Asia, this book builds upon and extends recent insights into the constitutive and multiple projects of colonial modernity. Eschewing the fashionable binaries of resistance and collaboration, the contributors seek to re-conceptualize modernity as a local and transitive practice of cultural conjunction. Whether through a close reading of Anglo-Indian poetry, Urdu rhyming dictionaries, Persian Bible translations, Jain court records, or Bengali polemical literature, the contributors interpret South Asian modernity as emerging from localized, partial and continuously negotiated efforts among a variety of South Asian and European elites. Surveying a range of individuals, regions, and movements, this book supports reflection on the ways traditional scholars and other colonial agents actively appropriated and re-purposed elements of European knowledge, colonial administration, ruling ideology, and material technologies. The book conjures a trans-colonial and trans-national context in which ideas of history, religion, language, science, and nation are defined across disparate religious, ethnic, and linguistic boundaries. Providing new insights into the negotiation and re-interpretation of Western knowledge and modernity, this book is of interest to students and scholars of South Asian Studies, as well as of intellectual and colonial history, comparative literature, and religious studies.

Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000084238

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Frontiers, Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies in South Asia by Kaushik Roy Pdf

This book uses cross-cultural analysis across Eurasia and Afro-Asia to trace the roots of contemporary border disputes and insurgencies in South Asia. It discusses the way frontiers of British India, and consequently the modern states of India and Pakistan, were drafted through negotiations backed up by organized violence, showing how this conce

Author : Thomas Barfield
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691154411

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Afghanistan by Thomas Barfield Pdf

Traces the political history of Afghanistan from the sixteenth century to the present, looking at what has united the people as well as the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them.

Author : Padma M. Sarangapani,Rekha Pappu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9811500312

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Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia by Padma M. Sarangapani,Rekha Pappu Pdf

This handbook is an important reference work in understanding education systems in the South Asia region, their development trajectory, challenges and potential. The handbook includes the SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) countries for discussion---Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka---while also considering countries such as Myanmar and the Maldives that have considerable shared history in the region. Such a comparative perspective is largely absent within the literature given the present paucity of intra-regional interaction. South Asian education systems are viewed primarily through a development lens in terms of inequalities, challenges and responses. However, the development of modern institutions of education and the challenges that it faces requires cultural and historical understanding of indigenous traditions as well as indigenous modern thinkers and education movements. Therefore, this encompassing referenc e work covers indigenous education traditions, formal education systems, including school and preschool education, higher and professional education, education financing systems and structures, teacher education systems, addressing huge linguistic and other diversities, and marginalization within the formal education system, and pedagogy and curricula. All the countries in this region have their own unique geographical, cultural, economic and political character and histories of interest and significance, and have responded to common issues such as overcoming the colonial legacy, language diversity, or girls’ education, or minority rights in education, in uniquely different ways. The sections therefore include country-specific perspectives as far as possible to highlight these issues. Internationally renowned specialists of South Asian education systems have contributed to this important reference work, making it an invaluable resource for researchers and students of education interested in South Asia.

Author : Avinash Paliwal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190911584

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My Enemy's Enemy by Avinash Paliwal Pdf

The archetype of 'my enemy's enemy is my friend', India's political and economic presence in Afghanistan is often viewed as a Machiavellian ploy aimed against Pakistan. The first of its kind, this book interrogates that simplistic yet powerful geopolitical narrative and asks what truly drives India's Afghanistan policy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Soundings in Modern Southern Asia History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elisabeth Leake
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107126022

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The Defiant Border by Elisabeth Leake Pdf

This book explores why the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands have remained largely independent of state controls throughout the twentieth century.