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Author : Edmund Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Darjeeling (India)
ISBN : UOM:39015013760569
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2370 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B4301125
Author : Alexander Angus Airlie Kinloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Big game hunting
ISBN : PRNC:32101064794835
Author : Matthew Horace Hayes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Horse breeds
ISBN : UCAL:B4513019
Author : Hugh Kirkwood Gracey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : English poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:HNN97W
Author : Edward Darley Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:601638788
Author : Edward Darley Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Polo
ISBN : HARVARD:HWRBDL
Author : Dipanwita Dasgupta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000885736
This book makes a systematic attempt to explore the environmental history of Darjeeling during the British colonial period (1835-1947), which profoundly transformed the environment of Darjeeling by introducing commercial control over the natural resources. After the foundation of Darjeeling as the hill station for the low-income groups of British administration living in Bengal and Burma, the place was transformed into a social, recreational and commercial centre for the British authorities. The railway construction boom, introduction of tea plantation, the growth of a commercial market for timber and increasing demands for fuel and building materials depleted the forest cover. The less explored regions of Darjeeling attracted the adventure-thirsty Britons. A series of investigations were made on the marketable products, the condition of roads, and quality of soil of these regions. The ethnographic, geological, botanical and zoological study of the Darjeeling was started by the colonial officials in the nineteenth century. In the early stage of expansion of colonialism in Asia, Africa, Australia and South America, the European colonizers faced numerous problems in dealing with the untouched nature. The accumulation of the knowledge of surrounding regions and proper management of the labour became essential for the colonial authority for transformation of the existing environment of the densely forested tropical colonies. Taylor and Francis does not sell or distribute the print editions of this book in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Author : Matthew Horace Hayes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Horses
ISBN : UCAL:$B34068
Author : Aliph Cheem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : India
ISBN : PRNC:32101065606079
Author : Dane Kennedy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520311008
Perched among peaks that loom over heat-shimmering plains, hill stations remain among the most curious monuments to the British colonial presence in India. In this engaging and meticulously researched study, Dane Kennedy explores the development and history of the hill stations of the raj. He shows that these cloud-enshrouded havens were sites of both refuge and surveillance for British expatriates: sanctuaries from the harsh climate as well as an alien culture; artificial environments where colonial rulers could nurture, educate, and reproduce themselves; commanding heights from which orders could be issued with an Olympian authority. Kennedy charts the symbolic and sociopolitical functions of the hill stations over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, arguing that these highland communities became much more significant to the British colonial government than mere places for rest and play. Particularly after the revolt of 1857, they became headquarters for colonial political and military authorities. In addition, the hill stations provided employment to countless Indians who worked as porters, merchants, government clerks, domestics, and carpenters. The isolation of British authorities at the hill stations reflected the paradoxical character of the British raj itself, Kennedy argues. While attempting to control its subjects, it remained aloof from Indian society. Ironically, as more Indians were drawn to these mountain areas for work, and later for vacation, the carefully guarded boundaries between the British and their subjects eroded. Kennedy argues that after the turn of the century, the hill stations were increasingly incorporated into the landscape of Indian social and cultural life. 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 1996.
Author : Partha Chatterjee
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691218311
In 1921 a traveling religious man appeared in eastern British Bengal. Soon residents began to identify this half-naked and ash-smeared sannyasi as none other than the Second Kumar of Bhawal--a man believed to have died twelve years earlier, at the age of twenty-six. So began one of the most extraordinary legal cases in Indian history. The case would rivet popular attention for several decades as it unwound in courts from Dhaka and Calcutta to London. This narrative history tells an incredible story replete with courtroom drama, sexual debauchery, family intrigue, and squandered wealth. With a novelist's eye for interesting detail, Partha Chatterjee sifts through evidence found in official archives, popular songs, and backstreet Bangladeshi bookshops. He evaluates the case of the man claiming, with the support of legions of tenants and relatives, to be the long-lost Kumar. And he considers the position of the sannyasi's detractors, including the colonial government and the Kumar's young widow, who resolutely refused to meet the man she denounced as an impostor. Along the way, Chatterjee introduces us to a fascinating range of human character, gleans insights into the nature of human identity, and examines the relation between scientific evidence, legal truth, and cultural practice. The story he tells unfolds alongside decades of Indian history. Its plot is shaped by changing gender and class relations and punctuated by critical historical events, including the onset of World War II, the Bengal famine of 1943, and the Great Calcutta Killings. And by identifying the earliest erosion of colonialism and the growth of nationalist thinking within the organs of colonial power, Chatterjee also gives us a secret history of Indian nationalism.
Author : Matthew Horace Hayes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Horsemanship
ISBN : PRNC:32101073305565
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1340 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : India
ISBN : NYPL:33433000574362
Author : Anonim
Publisher : KW Publishers Pvt Ltd
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789385714214
This book is about cultural politics and the quest for identity of two marginal communities of Sikkim and Darjeeling – the Lepcha and the Mangar. Sharing insights into the knowledge, aesthetics, aspirations and dreams of two marginal communities who have been innovatively and differentially appropriating ‘culture’ to exploit the politics of difference, it is a narrative about their ethno-cultural consciousness, notions of identity and anxieties over being minority communities in a pluralistic democracy. The narrative is essentially presented in the form of a field-trip diary, with observations and comments which try to situate the issues within a larger perspective. Based on two years of intensive field study, the book chronicles the endeavour of these two communities to reclaim their cultural past, and forge an identity that would ensure material security, self-esteem, dignity and also the fruits of ‘modernity’. The book will be useful to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology, politics and history, especially those engaged in the study of culture and ethnicity in the Eastern Himalayan region.