Author: Robert Eric FrykenbergPublisher: Oxford, Clarendon P
ISBN:
Category : Guntūr (India : District)
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Guntur District, 1788-1848
Author: Robert Eric FrykenbergPublisher: Oxford, Clarendon P
ISBN:
Category : Guntūr (India : District)
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Guntur District, 1788-1848
Author: Friedrich Max MullerThe administration of Guntur district, with special reference tolocal influence on revenue policy, 1837-1848
Author: Robert Eric FrykenbergPeasants and Imperial Rule
Author: Neil CharlesworthPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526401
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A regional study of the impact of British rule on the Indian peasantry.
Everyday Forms of Peasant Res Cb
Author: James C. ScottPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317845331
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
First published in 1987. This is volume 9 of the libray of peasant studies series. The contributors focus on a vast and relatively unexplored middle-ground of peasant politics between passivity and open, collective defiance. The general rubric for these phenomena is 'everyday resistance' - a term that is self-consciously homely.
Empire and Information
Author: Christopher Alan BaylyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521663601
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
In a penetrating account of the evolution of British intelligence gathering in India, C. A. Bayly shows how networks of Indian spies were recruited by the British to secure military, political and social information about their subjects. He also examines the social and intellectual origins of these 'native informants', and considers how the colonial authorities interpreted and often misinterpreted the information they supplied. It was such misunderstandings which ultimately contributed to the failure of the British to anticipate the rebellions of 1857. The author argues, however, that even before this, complex systems of debate and communication were challenging the political and intellectual dominance of the European rulers.
Kingship and Political Practice in Colonial India
Author: Pamela G. PricePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521552479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In a cultural history which considers the transformation of south Indian institutions under British colonial rule in the nineteenth century, Pamela Price focuses on the two former 'little kingdoms' of Ramnad and Sivagangai which came under colonial governance as revenue estates. She demonstrates how rivalries among the royal families and major zamindari temples, and the disintegration of indigenous institutions of rule, contributed to the development of nationalist ideologies and new political identities among the people of southern Tamil country. The author also shows how religious symbols and practices going back to the seventeenth century were reformulated and acquired a new significance in the colonial context. Arguing for a reappraisal of the relationship of Hinduism to politics, Price finds that these symbols and practices continue to inform popular expectation of political leadership today.
Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future
Author: Tobias WolffhardtPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1785336908
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
For much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British East India Company consolidated its rule over India, evolving from a trading venture to a colonial administrative force. Yet its territorial gains far outpaced its understanding of the region and the people who lived there, and its desperate efforts to gain knowledge of the area led to the 1815 appointment of army officer Colin Mackenzie as the first Surveyor General of India. This volume carefully reconstructs the life and career of Mackenzie, showing how the massive survey of India that he undertook became one of the most spectacular and wide-ranging knowledge production initiatives in British colonial history.
India and the Indianness of Christianity
Author: Robert Eric FrykenbergPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802863922
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Honoring historian Robert Eric Frykenberg--arguably the historian most responsible for promoting studies of intercultural and interreligious interactions in the South Asian context--the essays in this collection avoid the pitfall of Eurocentric, top-down historiographies and instead adopt and adapt Frykenberg's own Eurocentric, bottom-up approach, this accentuating indigenous agency in the emergence of Christianity an as Indian religion. The book features first-time case studies on Christianity in a variety of unusual Indian settings, including tribal societies, and offers original contributions to an understanding of how Indian Christianity was perceived in the post-Independence period by India's governing elite. Several essayists draw heavily on rare archival documentation in the United Kingdom, Germany, and India. The wealth of material and the perspectives gathered here constitute a remarkable volume--a credit to the historian who inspired it--from back cover.
The Emergence of Indian Nationalism
Author: Anil SealPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521062749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
In this volume Dr Seal analyses the social roots of the rather confused stirrings towards political organisations of the 1870s and 1880s which brought about the foundation of the Indian National Congress. He is concerned not only with the politicians, viceroys and civil servants but with the social structure of those parts of India where political movements were most prominent at the time. The emphasis of this work is more upon Indian politics than upon British policy: the associations in Bengal and Bombay, the genesis of the Congress and the Muslim breakaway which accentuated the political divisions in India.