Author: Douglas M. Peers
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199259887
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Essays by leading historians from around the world combine to create a timely and authoritative assessment of a number of the major themes in the history of modern South Asia.
India and the British Empire
Author: Douglas M. Peers
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199259887
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Essays by leading historians from around the world combine to create a timely and authoritative assessment of a number of the major themes in the history of modern South Asia.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199259887
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Essays by leading historians from around the world combine to create a timely and authoritative assessment of a number of the major themes in the history of modern South Asia.
Delusions and Discoveries
Author: Benita Parry
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859841280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
No cultural phenomenon of the 1970s and 1980s in Britain was more curious than the Raj revival, with its slew of films and fictions, its rage for memorabilia of imperial rule in India, and its strange nostalgia for a time and a world long since past. Today, with the arrival of so-called postcolonial studies, that revival lives on in a strange afterlife of critical study. Writing some years before Raj nostalgia became all the rage, and out of the rather different political and intellectual climate of 1960s national liberation struggles, Benita Parry produced what remains one of the landmark studies of British attitudes towards India. Available for the first time in Paper, Delusions and Discoveries authoritatively surveys the mix of racist and jingoistic prejudices that dominated the writings of Anglo-Indians from Flora Annie Steele and Maud Diver to Kipling and beyond. The book also includes treatments of more liberal thinkers like Edmund Candler, Edward James Thompson and E. M. Forster, as well as a new preface by the author situating her work in relation to recent studies of the culture of colony and empire.
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859841280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
No cultural phenomenon of the 1970s and 1980s in Britain was more curious than the Raj revival, with its slew of films and fictions, its rage for memorabilia of imperial rule in India, and its strange nostalgia for a time and a world long since past. Today, with the arrival of so-called postcolonial studies, that revival lives on in a strange afterlife of critical study. Writing some years before Raj nostalgia became all the rage, and out of the rather different political and intellectual climate of 1960s national liberation struggles, Benita Parry produced what remains one of the landmark studies of British attitudes towards India. Available for the first time in Paper, Delusions and Discoveries authoritatively surveys the mix of racist and jingoistic prejudices that dominated the writings of Anglo-Indians from Flora Annie Steele and Maud Diver to Kipling and beyond. The book also includes treatments of more liberal thinkers like Edmund Candler, Edward James Thompson and E. M. Forster, as well as a new preface by the author situating her work in relation to recent studies of the culture of colony and empire.
The Origins of Modern Historiography in India
Author: R. Mantena
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137011920
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
This book uncovers practices surrounding acts of collecting, surveying, and antiquarianism during British colonial rule in India. By examining these practices, this book traces the colonial conditions of the production of 'sources,' the forging of a new historical method, and the ascendance of positivist historiography in nineteenth-century India.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137011920
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
This book uncovers practices surrounding acts of collecting, surveying, and antiquarianism during British colonial rule in India. By examining these practices, this book traces the colonial conditions of the production of 'sources,' the forging of a new historical method, and the ascendance of positivist historiography in nineteenth-century India.
The Indian Borderland, 1880-1900
Author: Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
A Text-book of Indian History
Author: George Uglow Pope
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Reporting the Raj
Author: Chandrika Kaul
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526119765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This book is the first analysis of the dynamics of British press reporting of India and the attempts made by the British Government to manipulate press coverage as part of a strategy of imperial control. The press was an important forum for debate over the future of India and was used by significant groups within the political elite to advance their agendas. Focuses on a period which represented a critical transitional phase in the history of the Raj, witnessing the impact of the First World War, major constitutional reform initiatives, the tragedy of the Amritsar massacre, and the launching of Gandhi’s mass movement. Asserts that the War was a watershed in official media manipulation and in the aftermath of the conflict the Government’s previously informal and ad hoc attempts to shape press reporting were placed on a more formal basis.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526119765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This book is the first analysis of the dynamics of British press reporting of India and the attempts made by the British Government to manipulate press coverage as part of a strategy of imperial control. The press was an important forum for debate over the future of India and was used by significant groups within the political elite to advance their agendas. Focuses on a period which represented a critical transitional phase in the history of the Raj, witnessing the impact of the First World War, major constitutional reform initiatives, the tragedy of the Amritsar massacre, and the launching of Gandhi’s mass movement. Asserts that the War was a watershed in official media manipulation and in the aftermath of the conflict the Government’s previously informal and ad hoc attempts to shape press reporting were placed on a more formal basis.
Architecture and Independence
Author: Jon T. Lang
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This book examines Indian architecture in the context of the fight for and attainment of Independence. It traces the patterns of architecture since the founding of the Indian National Congress in the 1880s, exploring the impact of political ideology on the built environment. The authors provide the antecedents as well an idea of the impact of architectural work in newly independent India on subsequent work.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This book examines Indian architecture in the context of the fight for and attainment of Independence. It traces the patterns of architecture since the founding of the Indian National Congress in the 1880s, exploring the impact of political ideology on the built environment. The authors provide the antecedents as well an idea of the impact of architectural work in newly independent India on subsequent work.
India in 1880
Author: Richard Temple
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385446953
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385446953
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
The History of Lord Lytton's Indian Administration, 1876 to 1880
Author: Lady Betty Balfour
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s
Author: Anupama Arora
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319623346
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This book seeks to frame the “the idea of India” in the American imaginary within a transnational lens that is attentive to global flows of goods, people, and ideas within the circuits of imperial and maritime economies in nineteenth century America (roughly 1780s-1880s). This diverse and interdisciplinary volume – with essays by upcoming as well as established scholars – aims to add to an understanding of the fast changing terrain of economic, political, and cultural life in the US as it emerged from being a British colony to having imperial ambitions of its own on the global stage. The essays trace, variously, the evolution of the changing self-image of a nation embodying a surprisingly cosmopolitan sensibility, open to different cultural values and customs in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century to one that slowly adopted rigid and discriminatory racial and cultural attitudes spawned by the widespread missionary activities of the ABCFM and the fierce economic pulls and pushes of American mercantilism by the end of the nineteenth century. The different uses of India become a way of refining an American national identity.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319623346
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This book seeks to frame the “the idea of India” in the American imaginary within a transnational lens that is attentive to global flows of goods, people, and ideas within the circuits of imperial and maritime economies in nineteenth century America (roughly 1780s-1880s). This diverse and interdisciplinary volume – with essays by upcoming as well as established scholars – aims to add to an understanding of the fast changing terrain of economic, political, and cultural life in the US as it emerged from being a British colony to having imperial ambitions of its own on the global stage. The essays trace, variously, the evolution of the changing self-image of a nation embodying a surprisingly cosmopolitan sensibility, open to different cultural values and customs in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century to one that slowly adopted rigid and discriminatory racial and cultural attitudes spawned by the widespread missionary activities of the ABCFM and the fierce economic pulls and pushes of American mercantilism by the end of the nineteenth century. The different uses of India become a way of refining an American national identity.