Picturesque India

Author : Sir Richard Temple
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:4064066362461

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A Bird's-Eye View of Picturesque India by Sir Richard Temple Pdf

"A Bird's-Eye View of Picturesque India" by Sir Richard Temple. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : William Sproston Caine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Description and Travel
ISBN : UOM:39015033661508

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Picturesque India by William Sproston Caine Pdf

Author : Sangeeta Mathur,Ratnesh Mathur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN : 9385285912

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Picturesque India by Sangeeta Mathur,Ratnesh Mathur Pdf

* The book provides a glimpse of the visual history of India at the beginning of the industrial travel era, a hundred years back* Explore the geographic diversity of 130+ cities through 550 picture postcards of pre-Partition India* The book contains a detailed catalogue of the printers, photographers and publishers of the first picture postcards of IndiaWith the dawn of the twentieth century, at the height of the British Empire, came significant changes in the landscape of India - formation of new capital cities in the plains and summer retreats in the hills, evolution of towns or nagores and pores, growth of cantonment towns with their military and civil lines, development of ports or pattanams and creation of cultural, educational and trading centers, all increasingly well connected by an extensive rail, road and, later on, air network. The 550 postcards featured in this book visually document this growth, while also capturing evidence of earlier times in India's fascinating polytemporal towns. The postcards are divided across six chapters representing six regions within India and Pakistan, as they were a hundred years ago. Through these picture postcards and the supporting text, the readers can vividly imagine what it would have been like to travel by road or rail across India during the period 1896-1947. An attractive and nostalgic record of the topography of the time, these picture postcards are an untapped resource for those interested in the evolution of cities, town planning, architecture, ethnography, sociology or, simply, travel.

Author : H.K. Kaul
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351867177

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Early Writings on India by H.K. Kaul Pdf

This book, first published in 1975, is a comprehensive list of all the books on India, written in English before 1900. It is an invaluable reference source on India of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Apart from the work of professional writers, there are the writings of a cross-section of society from soldiers to scientists. We find dictionaries of obscure dialects written by government officials, descriptions of their travels by visiting clerics, homely details of everyday life by housewives, as well as technical and scientific works written by scholars.

Author : William Sproston Caine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : India
ISBN : LCCN:lc48039404

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Picturesque India by William Sproston Caine Pdf

Author : Daniell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1810
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00097721

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A Picturesque Voyage to India by Daniell Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Asia
ISBN : HARVARD:32044089907794

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Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies by Anonim Pdf

Contains "verbatim reports of Debates at the East-India house, taken in shorthand for these pages". -- cf. v. 1, p. iii.

Author : Eustace Alfred Reynolds-Ball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Health resorts
ISBN : CORNELL:31924023264223

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Bradshaw's Through Routes to the Chief Cities, and Bathing, and Health Resorts of the World by Eustace Alfred Reynolds-Ball Pdf

Author : Jennifer Lynn Peterson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822378914

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Education in the School of Dreams by Jennifer Lynn Peterson Pdf

In the earliest years of cinema, travelogues were a staple of variety film programs in commercial motion picture theaters. These short films, also known as "scenics," depicted tourist destinations and exotic landscapes otherwise inaccessible to most viewers. Scenics were so popular that they were briefly touted as the future of film. But despite their pervasiveness during the early twentieth century, travelogues have been overlooked by film historians and critics. In Education in the School of Dreams, Jennifer Lynn Peterson recovers this lost archive. Through innovative readings of travelogues and other nonfiction films exhibited in the United States between 1907 and 1915, she offers fresh insights into the aesthetic and commercial history of early cinema and provides a new perspective on the intersection of American culture, imperialism, and modernity in the nickelodeon era. Peterson describes the travelogue's characteristic form and style and demonstrates how imperialist ideologies were realized and reshaped through the moving image. She argues that although educational films were intended to legitimate filmgoing for middle-class audiences, travelogues were not simply vehicles for elite ideology. As a form of instructive entertainment, these technological moving landscapes were both formulaic and also wondrous and dreamlike. Considering issues of spectatorship and affect, Peterson argues that scenics produced and disrupted viewers' complacency about their own place in the world.

Author : Great Britain. India Office. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Indic literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044105325666

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Catalogue of the Library of the India Office: [pt. 1] Classed catalogue. 1888 by Great Britain. India Office. Library Pdf

Author : India Office Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Indic literature
ISBN : UCAL:B4696854

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Catalogue of the Library of the India Office: pt. 1 . Classed catalogue. 1888. pt. 2 . Index. 1888. Supplement. 1895. Supplement 2. 1895-1909 by India Office Library Pdf

Author : William Sproston Caine
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 101777840X

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Picturesque India: A Handbook For European Travellers by William Sproston Caine Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Pran Nevile
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789352141722

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Sahibs' India by Pran Nevile Pdf

STEP BACK TO GLIMPSE A BYGONE TIME... Mahlee, dhobie, cook, horsekeeper, Each were to the chokee sent, Last of all the wretched sweeper- Still the Colonel's liquor went. 'Devlish odd this!' said the Colonel 'What a land to soldier in! Aboo, this is most infernal - Who the blazes drinks my gin?' Sahib's India's is a panaromic look at the lives of the British in colonial India. Culled from Raj literature , it reveals little-known aspects of their lives and their dealings with their Indian subjects. Drawing from contemporary journals, plays and poems, the author provides wonderful descriptions of British homes and servants , their tastes and fashions, cultural idiosyncrasies, profligacy, sports, hunts and shoots, giving us, with the relaxed familiarity of the after -dinner raconteur, a flavour of the period. The book is peppered with a host of characters- astrologers, jugglers, magicians, grass widows, the 'fishing fleet', missionaries, nautch girls, mavericks and eccentrics- who made India their home as the British turned from traders to empire- builders, and is interspersed with period photographs, paintings and sketches. Thsi is a delightful evocation of a vanished world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Books and bookselling
ISBN : WISC:89011541570

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The Gentleman's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael S. Dodson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000051360

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Bureaucracy, Belonging, and the City in North India by Michael S. Dodson Pdf

This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local identity in colonial north India at the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on Banaras and Jaunpur, two of northern India’s most traditional cities, the book examines the workings of colonial bureaucracy in the cities and argues that interactions with the colonial state were an integral aspect of the ways that Indians created a sense of their own personal investment in the city in which they lived. The book explores the every-day and the mundane to better understand the limits of British colonial power, and the role of Indians themselves, in the making of the modern city. Based on highly localized archival source material, the author analyses two key aspects of city-making in this era: the building of new infrastructure, such as water supply and sewerage, and new policies governing historical architectural conservation. The book also incorporates an ethnography of contemporary urban space in these cities to advocate for a more nuanced and responsible approach to writing the history of such cities and to address the myriad problems of present-day north Indian urbanism. Containing examples of bureaucratic procedure and its contradictions and enlivened by a set of personal reflections and narratives of the author's own experiences, this book is a valuable addition to the field of South Asian Studies, Asian History and Asian Culture and Society, Colonial History and Urban History.