Native Officialdom In Western India

Author : Abhijit Sirdesai
Publisher : Author
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Native Officialdom in Western India by Abhijit Sirdesai Pdf

This book is about the landlords or the revenue officers of the administrative system recognized as the Watan System which was rampant for more than five centuries before India’s independence. With a focus on the Deshmukhi Watan or the Desgut, held by Deshmukhs or Desais, this volume presents the hierarchy of the chain of officers like the Patils, Deshpandes, Kulkarnis, etc., and attempts to reflect on the status accorded to them by the society and the treatment they received from the British in the 19th century. Topics explored in this volume relate to the administrative history, the judicial institutions, laws of inheritance, role of religion, commonness of superstition, customs and traditions, etc. We find ample citations of the authoritative sources backing the views expressed by the author at every turn as we proceed. The book has a foreword written by Dr. Teotonio R. de Souza, a historian and the founder of Xavier Center for Historical Research, Goa.

Author : George Morton-Jack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107117655

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The Indian Army on the Western Front South Asia Edition by George Morton-Jack Pdf

Recasts the role of the Indian Army on the Western Front, questioning why its performance was traditionally deemed a failure.

Author : Christine E. Dobbin
Publisher : London : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015011503813

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Urban Leadership in Western India by Christine E. Dobbin Pdf

Author : David Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781136811302

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Handbook of India's International Relations by David Scott Pdf

This Handbook gives an overview of India’s international relations, given the development of India as a major economic power in the world, and the growing interest in the impact of Asia on the international system in the future. Edited by David Scott of Brunel University, and with chapters written by a variety of experts, the Handbook of India’s International Relations offers an up-to-date, unbiased and comprehensive resource to academics, students of international relations, business people, media professionals and the general reader. There is a pre-publication price on this title, the price rises to £150 three months after publication.

Author : Amar Farooqui
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0739108867

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Smuggling as Subversion by Amar Farooqui Pdf

Smuggling as Subversion is the first comprehensive account of the opium industry in western India during the colonial period, from its beginnings to the mid-19th century. This is an in-depth examination of the use of opium during colonial times, and at the same time the fascinating story of how Indian merchants developed a smuggling enterprise that subverted the East India Company's monopoly in the drug, setting in motion a chain of events that led to the first Opium War in China.

Author : Nandini Bhattacharya
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228017905

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Disparate Remedies by Nandini Bhattacharya Pdf

At present India is a leading producer, distributor, and consumer of generic medicines globally. Disparate Remedies traces the genealogy of this development and examines the public cultures of medicine in the country between 1870 and 1960. The book begins by discussing the expansion of medical consumerism in late nineteenth-century India when British-owned firms extended their sales into remote towns. As a result, laboratory-produced drugs competed with traditional remedies through side-by-side production of Western and Indian drugs by pharmaceutical companies. The emergent middle classes, the creation of a public sphere, and nationalist politics transformed the medical culture of modern India and generated conflict between Western and Indigenous medical systems and their practitioners. Nandini Bhattacharya demonstrates that these disparate therapies were sustained through the tropes of purity or adulteration, potency or lack of it, and epistemic heritage, even when their material configuration often differed little. Uniquely engaging with the cultures of both consumption and production in the country, Disparate Remedies follows the evolution of medicine in colonial India as it confronted Indian modernity and changing public attitudes surrounding health and drugs.

Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 019215964X

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The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume V: Competition by Asa Briggs Pdf

Part of a five-volume history of the rise and development of broadcasting in the United Kingdom.

Author : Dan Cruickshank
Publisher : Random House
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446416723

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The Country House Revealed by Dan Cruickshank Pdf

Spanning the architectural history of the country house from the disarming Elizabethan charm of South Wraxall, the classical rigour of Kinross in Scotland, the majesty and ingenuity of Hawksmoor's Easton Neston, the Palladian sweep of Wentworth Woodhouse, with over 300 rooms and frontage of 600 feet, the imperial exuberance of Clandeboye, through to the ebullient vitality of Lutyens' Marshcourt, the stories of these houses tell the story of our nation. All are the are buildings of the greatest architectural interest, each with a fascinating human story to tell, and all remain private homes that are closed to the public. But their owners have opened their doors and allowed Dan Cruickshank to roam the corridors and rummage in the cellars as he teases out the story of each house - who built them, the generations who lived in them, and the families who lost them. Along the way he has uncovered tales of excess and profligacy, tragedy, comedy, power and ambition. And as these intriguing narratives take shape, Dan shows how the story of each house is inseparable from the social and economic history of Britain. Each one is built as a wave of economic development crests, or crumbles. Each one's architecture and design is thus expressive of the aims, strengths and frailties of those who built them. Together they plot the psychological, economic and social route map of our country's ruling class in a rich new telling of our island story.

Author : John Edmond McLeod
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004644793

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Sovereignty, Power, Control by John Edmond McLeod Pdf

This thorough study offers the opportunity to gain a clear understanding of the mechanics of political interaction in princely India (in the period 1916-1947) between the British colonial power, the princely rulers, and nationalist politicians. The first major scholarly contribution to an until now largely ignored field of interest.

Author : Dinyar Patel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674245372

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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.

Author : Jane Carey,Jane Lydon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317659327

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Indigenous Networks by Jane Carey,Jane Lydon Pdf

This edited collection argues for the importance of recovering Indigenous participation within global networks of imperial power and wider histories of "transnational" connections. It takes up a crucial challenge for new imperial and transnational histories: to explore the historical role of colonized and subaltern communities in these processes, and their legacies in the present. Bringing together prominent and emerging scholars who have begun to explore Indigenous networks and "transnational" encounters, and to consider the broader significance of "extra-local" connections, exchanges and mobility for Indigenous peoples, this work engages closely with some of the key historical scholarship on transnationalism and the networks of European imperialism. Chapters deploy a range of analytic scales, including global, regional and intra-Indigenous networks, and methods, including histories of ideas and cultural forms and biography, as well as exploring contemporary legacies. In drawing these perspectives together, this book charts an important new direction in research.

Author : Edward E. Curtis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781474245395

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The Bloomsbury Reader on Islam in the West by Edward E. Curtis Pdf

For more than a millennium, Islam has been a vital part of Western civilization. Today, however, it is sometimes assumed that Islam is a foreign element inside the West, and even that Islam and the West are doomed to be in perpetual conflict. The need for accurate, reliable scholarship on this topic has never been more urgent. The Bloomsbury Reader on Islam in the West brings together some of the most important, up-to-date scholarly writings published on this subject. The Reader explores not only the presence of Muslim religious practitioners in Europe and the Americas but also the impact of Islamic ideas and Muslims on Western politics, societies, and cultures. It is ideal for use in the university classroom, with an extensive introduction by Edward E. Curtis IV and a timeline of key events in the history of Islam in the West. A brief introduction to the author and the topic is provided at the start of each excerpt. Part 1, on the history of Islam in the West, probes the role of Muslims and the significance of Islam in medieval, early modern, and modern settings such as Islamic Spain, colonial-era Latin America, sixteenth-century France, nineteenth-century Crimea, interwar Albania, the post-World War II United States, and late twentieth-century Germany. Part 2 focuses on the contemporary West, examining debates over Muslim citizenship, the war on terrorism, anti-Muslim prejudice, and Islam and gender, while also providing readers with a concrete sense of how Muslims practise and live out Islamic ideals in their private and public lives.

Author : Sara E. Quay,Gabrielle R. Watling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1083 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313071676

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Cultural History of Reading [2 volumes] by Sara E. Quay,Gabrielle R. Watling Pdf

What is it about some books that makes them timeless? Cultural History of Reading looks at books from their earliest beginnings through the present day, in both the U.S. and regions all over the world. Not only fiction and literature, but religious works, dictionaries, scientific works, and home guides such as Mrs. Beeton's all have had an impact on not only their own time and place, but continue to capture the attention of readers today. Volume 1 examines the history of books in regions throughout the world, identifying both literature and nonfiction that was influenced by cultural events of its time. Volume 2 identifies books from the pre-colonial era to the present day that have had lasting significance in the United States. History students and book lovers alike will enjoy discovering the books that have impacted our world.

Author : Lorne J. Kavic
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520331600

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India's Quest for Security by Lorne J. Kavic Pdf

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 1967.

Author : Woodbridge Bingham,Hilary Conroy,Frank William Iklé
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015003636456

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A History of Asia: Old empires, Western penetration, and the rise of new nations since 1600 by Woodbridge Bingham,Hilary Conroy,Frank William Iklé Pdf