Author: H. B. HannaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
India's Scientific Frontier
Author: H. B. HannaIndia's Scientific Frontier: Where Is It? What Is It?
Author: H. B. HannaPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781020563287
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book examines India's scientific potential and the challenges facing the country's scientific community. It explores the history of scientific innovation in India and offers insights into the future of science and technology within the nation. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
India's Scientific Frontier. Where is it? What is it? Indian Problems
Author: H.B. HANNAIndian Problems
Author: Henry HannaOur Scientific Frontier
Author: Sir William Patrick AndrewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghan Wars
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The "scientific frontier" is a term used by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield) of Great Britain in 1878 to denote a border between British India (in present-day Pakistan) and Afghanistan, which could be occupied and defended according to the requirements of the science of military strategy, as opposed to the existing frontier, which had been formed by a haphazard pattern of British expansion through agreements and annexations. The term subsequently figured prominently in British discussions about the defense of British India from a possible Russian invasion through Afghanistan. Our Scientific Frontier, published toward the end of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80), is an analysis of this subject, written to influence the British debate on the terms of peace. The author, William Patrick Andrew, was chairman of the Scinde, Punjab, and Delhi Railway Company, and thus an expert on logistics and transport in India and along its frontiers. The book contains chapters on the Northwest Frontier, the history, geography, and economy of Afghanistan, the independent border tribes, mountain passes, probable routes of invasion from Afghanistan into India, and the "Powindahs, or Soldier-Merchants of Afghanistan." Three appendices cover the Sherpur entrenchments that were part of the defense of Kabul, the Bolan and Khyber railways (neither of which was constructed until after the period discussed), and transport by rail of troops, horses, guns, and war matériel in India.
India's Scientific Frontier
Author: Henry Bathurst HannaPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332502809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Excerpt from India's Scientific Frontier: Where Is It? What Is It? Of men from Kandahar to Multan, to one fourth that number. But how was this reduction accomplished? Why, by taking as the basis of comparison, not the facts of Sir John Keene's march from Sukkar to Kandahar, but those of Sir Frederick Roberts' march from Kabul to Kan dahar. Now the latter march was made under conditions exceptionally favourable, even as te gards that particular route, and such as never have or ever can occur in the Bolan road. The column, consisting of men of all ranks, had with it no wheeled carriage, only mountain guns no pontoon train, no sappers, and only a small reserve of engin eers' equipments, and hardly any quarter-master's stores, these latter being forwarded from Sibi tothe troops at Kandahar. Moving at the best season of the year through a country whose military strength had been completely broken by Sir Donald Stewart - that country the granary of Afghanistan - it not only suffered no delays from vicissitudes of climate or the attacks of the inhabi tants, but was able to depend entirely upon the fields of half-ripened corn which bordered the road for fodder for the cavalry horses and trans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Indian problmes No. II, India's scientific frontier where is it? what is it?
Author: H. B. HannaIndia's Scientific Frontier, where is it ? what is it ? by Colonel H. B. Hanna,...
Author: H. B. HannaThe Frontier in British India
Author: Thomas SimpsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108840191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
An innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power and knowledge developed at the territorial fringes of British India. Thomas Simpson considers the role of frontier officials as surveyors, cartographers and ethnographers, military violence in frontier regions and the impact of the frontier experience on colonial administration.
The Frontier in British India
Author: Thomas SimpsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108882099
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Thomas Simpson provides an innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power and knowledge developed at the territorial fringes of colonial India during the nineteenth century. Through critical interventions in a wide range of theoretical and historiographical fields, he speaks to historians of empire and science, anthropologists, and geographers alike. The Frontier in British India provides the first connected and comparative analysis of frontiers in northwest and northeast India and draws on visual and written materials from an array of archives across the subcontinent and the UK. Colonial interventions in frontier spaces and populations were, it shows, enormously destructive but also prone to confusion and failure on their own terms. British frontier administrators did not merely suffer 'turbulent' frontiers, but actively worked to generate and uphold these regions as spaces of governmental and scientific exception. Accordingly, India's frontiers became crucial spaces of imperial practice and imagination throughout the nineteenth century.