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Category : Delhi (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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General Report on the Administration of the Punjab Territories, from 1856-57 to 1857-58 Inclusive
Author: Supplement to the Classified List of Books in Store in the Record & Statistical (late Examiner's) Department, East-India Office
Author: Great Britain. India Office. Record & Statistical DepartmentPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Labors of Division
Author: Navyug GillPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503637506
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
One of the most durable figures in modern history, the peasant has long been a site of intense intellectual and political debate. Yet underlying much of this literature is the assumption that peasants simply existed everywhere, a general if not generic group, traced backward from modernity to antiquity. Focused on the transformation of Panjab during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book accounts for the colonial origins of global capitalism through a radical history of the concept of "the peasant," demonstrating how seemingly fixed hierarchies were in fact produced, legitimized, and challenged within the preeminent agricultural region of South Asia. Navyug Gill uncovers how and why British officials and ascendant Panjabis disrupted existing forms of identity and occupation to generate a new agrarian order in the countryside. The notion of the hereditary caste peasant engaged in timeless cultivation thus emerged, paradoxically, as a result of a dramatic series of conceptual, juridical, and monetary divisions. Far from archaic relics, this book ultimately reveals both the landowning peasant and landless laborer to be novel political subjects forged through the encounter between colonialism and struggles over culture and capital within Panjabi society. Questions of progress, exploitation and knowledge come to animate the vernacular operations of power. With this history, Gill brings difference and contingency to understandings of the global past in order to re-think the itinerary of comparative political economy as well as alternative possibilities for emancipatory futures.
A Social History of Christianity
Author: John C.B. WebsterPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199097577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Christian community in India emerged from an Indian rather than a foreign or an imperial context. Its internal dynamics were shaped far more by Indian social realities than by missionary designs. This book presents a comprehensive social history of Christianity in north-west India, comprising Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, the Union Territories of Delhi and Chandigarh, and the Pakistani Punjab and North-West Frontier Province. The book discusses significant events in the history of the north-west up to 1947, after which it focuses only on India. These events left a lasting impact on Christianity and shaped its future course, culminating in the transfer of churches’ power from foreign missionaries to Indians and proliferation of churches, and the ongoing struggles of the Christian community. The author pays special attention to the Christian community’s caste composition—how caste status and social mobility affected intra- and inter-community relations—religious diversity, uneven demographic distribution, and development, as well as Christianity as a religious movement in the region.
Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
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Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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The Indian Army and the Making of Punjab
Author: Rajit K. MazumderPublisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788178240596
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A handful of Englishment controlled the vast British Indian empire for nearly 200 years. Throughout this period, the colonials who ran the empire (viceroys, bureaucrats, military men, police officers) constituted a miniscule minority of the Indian population. That a few thousand British men dominated so many million Indians for so long via native collaborators (feudal princes, educated babus, peasant recruits) has long been known. This book looks closely at the Indian army in order to show precisely how collaboration worked to sustain a national empire and a local economy. Show More Show Less.
India in 1857–59
Author: Dolores DominPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112709276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
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Engineer's Journal and Railway, Public Works, Mining Gazette, of India and the Colonies
Author: Rethinking 1857
Author: Sabyasachi BhattacharyaPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Contributed articles presented at a conference moderated by Indian Council of Historical Research held in December 2006.