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Author : Vipin Pubby
Publisher : Indus Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : India
ISBN : 8173870462
This Book Fulfils A Long-Felt Need In Providing A Chronological Account Of The Events That Took Place In Shimla During The British Raj And After Independence.
Author : Hari Sud
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781304113573
This is an historical account of the British Summer Capital of Shimla from 1832 to 1932. It describes the lives of a few men who were grain traders and commission agents who kept the British as well as the local population supplied with their food and other needs. In the process over one hundred years they grew extremely wealthy and influential. The British showered them titles and respected them for great skill and hard work. Today Sud or Sood as they are known around the town hold the strings of the pursue of present day Himachal Pradesh economy.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Sarla Publications Private Limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Contains news and important current affairs. Topics covered: Himachal Pradesh Cabinet Union Cabinet Employment and Jobs Awards and Honours Culture, Religion and Myths Economy and Development Himachal Budget 2020-21 Education
Author : Manjulika Ghosh
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Knowledge, Theory of (Hinduism)
ISBN : 8172112076
The Present book highlights the importance of verbal testimony Sabdapramana's in Indian Epistemolog, knowledge from trusted telling, eternality of word and its meaning, its non-reducibility to inference, philosophical significance of praiseworthy sentence, limits of Sruti as a Pramana perceptual cognition generated through verbal testimony, notion of aptatva, etc. These issues are freshly interpreted by a team of scholars who are engaged in research on this subject for a considerable period of time.
Author : N. Jayaram
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788132237419
This volume emphasises the sociological view that cities are primarily about people, not places or buildings, and explores the social dynamics of urban space in globalising India. Distinguishing between ‘locale’ and ‘milieu’ and the community–cosmopolitanism dialectic in urban areas, it elucidates the thematic for urban sociology today. The chapters explore the various perspectives and processes in understanding the urban predicament in India today. The contributors specifically ask: What are the characteristics of the fastest growing cities in India? What are the forces shaping their forms and processes? Who benefits from what type of livelihood options cities offer? How have city administrations been dealing with mounting demands for housing, energy, and water resources, and problems of mass transportation? What implications do these have for the ecology of the city and the surrounding areas? Given the heterogeneity of urban populations, what social processes are at work and how they affect cit[y]zenship and identity? What aspirations and tensions are expressed among different groups, and what implications do these have for inter-group relations? What challenges do inter-group relations pose for urban planning and administration? The contributors include renowned scholars as also young researchers. They go beyond their disciplinary moorings of economics, history, political science, social work, and sociology, and their trans-disciplinary dialogues carry inputs from policy makers, administrators, and grassroots activists working in urban areas.
Author : U. B. Singh
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Local government
ISBN : 8178350777
The collection of scholarly articles by eminent scholars capsulate the welfare and development schemes and their many-handed implementation in the lives of people of cities and towns to construct the urban infrastructure as well as boost up the rich dividends of economy, as felt of the independence. A positive story of the experiments useful for academic community.
Author : Narendra Chapalgaonkar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000571325
As a Princely State, Hyderabad was the largest in population among over 560 tributary states under British paramountcy in colonial India. This book is a collection of profiles and sketches of some of the most important and influential people from the erstwhile Hyderabad State during the first half of the 20th century, which marked the last decades of its existence as a distinct entity under the British Raj. It features profiles of Mir Osman Ali Khan, the Seventh Nizam; Mir Laik Ali, the last Prime Minister of Hyderabad; Kasim Razvi; some of the Nizam’s administrators and diplomats; as well as Sir Walter Monckton, the Nizam’s British Constitutional Advisor; amongst others. Unfolding the pages of history, the text gives an insight into the administration and affairs of Hyderabad during this time, through an examination of the lives of the people closely associated with it. A unique contribution to the literature on modern Indian and colonial history, this book will be indispensable for students and researchers of history, modern Indian history, colonialism, imperial history, biography, and South Asia studies. It will also appeal to general readers interested in the history of Hyderabad.
Author : Helen Sooväli-Sepping,Hugo Reinert,Jonathan Miles-Watson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789401799034
This volume breaks new ground in the study of landscapes, both rural and urban. The innovative notion of this landscape collection is rupture. The book explores the ways in which societal, economic and cultural changes are transforming the meanings and understandings of landscapes. The text explores both how landscapes are contesting changes in society and changing society. The volume combines empirically fine-grained accounts of landscape rupture, from different parts of the world, with a sustained effort to explore, rethink and analytically extend the concept of rupture itself. The book therefore combines fresh empirical data with innovative theoretical approaches to open understanding of landscape as a dynamic, living entity subject to abrupt change and unpredictable disruptions. Through this dual reflection the volume is able to provide a powerful demonstration of the possibilities that are available for human action, social change and material landscape to combine.
Author : J. Barton Scott
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226824895
A history of global secularism and political feeling through colonial blasphemy law. Why is religion today so often associated with giving and taking offense? To answer this question, Slandering the Sacred invites us to consider how colonial infrastructures shaped our globalized world. Through the origin and afterlives of a 1927 British imperial law (Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code), J. Barton Scott weaves a globe-trotting narrative about secularism, empire, insult, and outrage. Decentering white martyrs to free thought, his story calls for new histories of blasphemy that return these thinkers to their imperial context, dismantle the cultural boundaries of the West, and transgress the borders between the secular and the sacred as well as the public and the private.
Author : Katherine Stathers
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780711252868
Explore the diverse cultural and historical legacy of the world's greatest writers, artists and composers on foot. This unique trans-continental culture trip around the world presents a series of inspiring walks, treks, and hikes that vary between easy one-hour strolls, half day trails, and multi-day expeditions for people who love a walking holiday and are looking for a more immersive experience. The book includes walks in easy to reach countryside areas, national parks, the wild, and the great cities of the world. From an urban Street Art Walking Tour of East London to a traverse through the Georgian melting pot city of Tbilisi to a literary-themed Millennium Tour of Stieg Larsson’s Stockholm, Discover the World in 500 Walks with Writers, Artists & Musicians has all the inspiration and information you need to plan your next walking adventure.
Author : Nayanika Mathur
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226771922
"The last decade has seen the increasing entry of big cats-lions, tigers, and leopards-into human settlements in India. Most big cats co-reside with humans. But some have become "crooked"-killing people, often serially, and frightening residents in villages and cities. This new book, by big cat connoisseur and anthropologist Nayanika Mathur, lays bare the peculiar atmosphere of terror these encounters create, reinforced by stories, conspiracy theories, rumors, anger, and news reports about charismatic "celebrity" cats. There are various theories of why and how a big cat turns to eating people, and Mathur lays out the dominant ideas offered by the residents with whom she works. These vary from the effects of climate change and habitat loss to history and politics. The latter, for example, include the idea of big cats turning on humans for retribution for past injustices (poaching or hunting). Still, no one, including the scientists who study animal behavior, has been able to explain the highly individualized reasons why some cats turn against humans and others do not. Beautifully detailed in its portrayal of India's places, people, and animals, Crooked Cats sheds light on how we understand nonhuman animals and the growing intensity of human-nonhuman conflict in the Anthropocene"--
Author : Inder Sharma
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789387997141
“All Doors Opened” is the story of Inder Sharma, the canny creator of SITA World Travel India, the towering giant of India’s travel industry and later the Chairman of India’s most iconic and celebrated shopping centre, Select CITYWALK, as told in his own words.“All Doors Opened” is the story of Inder Sharma, the canny creator of SITA World Travel India, the towering giant of India’s travel industry and later the Chairman of India’s most iconic and celebrated shopping centre, Select CITYWALK, as told in his own words.
Author : Farzana Habib
Publisher : Ukiyoto Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789356455665
The following set of stories explores the lives and loves of different woman from all walks of life. Right from infancy all the way to old age. Each story highlights an issue, a problem and even moments of happiness.
Author : Ishrat Ali Lalljee
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The book reviews a range of the writings of Ruskin Bond spanning over six decades, from his debut making novella, The Room on the Roof in 1956 to A Little Book about India in 2022. It provides a bird’s eye view of Mr. Bond’s compendious vision as a Nature Mystic, Metaphysic, Romantic, Environmentalist, Humanist, Historian, Biographer and Raconteur, among others. It also incorporates vignettes of the life and experiences of the author, besides his beliefs and philosophy. The book is an enhanced and enriched adaptation of a Doctoral Research which contains substantial inputs from Ruskin Bond himself and these augment the authenticity and depth of the book and gives it a first person feel.
Author : Patricia Schultz
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 1217 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780761156864
The world’s bestselling travel book is back in a more informative, more experiential, more budget-friendly full-color edition. A #1 New York Times bestseller, 1,000 Places reinvented the idea of travel book as both wish list and practical guide. As Newsweek wrote, it “tells you what’s beautiful, what’s fun, and what’s just unforgettable— everywhere on earth.” And now the best is better. There are 600 full-color photographs. Over 200 entirely new entries, including visits to 28 countries like Lebanon, Croatia, Estonia, and Nicaragua, that were not in the original edition. There is an emphasis on experiences: an entry covers not just Positano or Ravello, but the full 30-mile stretch along the Amalfi Coast. Every entry from the original edition has been readdressed, rewritten, and made fuller, with more suggestions for places to stay, restaurants to visit, festivals to check out. And throughout, the book is more budget-conscious, starred restaurants and historic hotels such as the Ritz, but also moderately priced gems that don’t compromise on atmosphere or charm. The world is calling. Time to answer.