Author: Francis Hamilton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bihar (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Journal Kept During the Survey of the District of Shahabad in 1812-1813
Author: Francis Hamilton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bihar (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bihar (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Journal of Francis Buchanan Kept During the Survey of the District of Shahabad in 1812-1813
Author: Francis Hamilton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shahabad (India : District)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shahabad (India : District)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Journal Kept During the Survey of the Districts of Patna and Gaya in 1811-1812
Author: Francis Hamilton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bihar (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bihar (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Art of Eastern India
Author: Frederick M. Asher
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452912254
Category : Art, Indic
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452912254
Category : Art, Indic
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Peasants and Monks in British India
Author: William R. Pinch
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520200616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
In this compelling social history, William R. Pinch tackles one of the most important but most neglected fields of the colonial history of India: the relation between monasticism and caste. The highly original inquiry yields rich insights into the central structure and dynamics of Hindu society—insights that are not only of scholarly but also of great political significance. Perhaps no two images are more associated with rural India than the peasant who labors in an oppressive, inflexible social structure and the ascetic monk who denounces worldly concerns. Pinch argues that, contrary to these stereotypes, North India's monks and peasants have not been passive observers of history; they have often been engaged with questions of identity, status, and hierarchy—particularly during the British period. Pinch's work is especially concerned with the ways each group manipulated the rhetoric of religious devotion and caste to further its own agenda for social reform. Although their aims may have been quite different—Ramanandi monastics worked for social equity, while peasants agitated for higher social status—the strategies employed by these two communities shaped the popular political culture of Gangetic north India during and after the struggle for independence from the British.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520200616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
In this compelling social history, William R. Pinch tackles one of the most important but most neglected fields of the colonial history of India: the relation between monasticism and caste. The highly original inquiry yields rich insights into the central structure and dynamics of Hindu society—insights that are not only of scholarly but also of great political significance. Perhaps no two images are more associated with rural India than the peasant who labors in an oppressive, inflexible social structure and the ascetic monk who denounces worldly concerns. Pinch argues that, contrary to these stereotypes, North India's monks and peasants have not been passive observers of history; they have often been engaged with questions of identity, status, and hierarchy—particularly during the British period. Pinch's work is especially concerned with the ways each group manipulated the rhetoric of religious devotion and caste to further its own agenda for social reform. Although their aims may have been quite different—Ramanandi monastics worked for social equity, while peasants agitated for higher social status—the strategies employed by these two communities shaped the popular political culture of Gangetic north India during and after the struggle for independence from the British.
Mapping an Empire
Author: Matthew H. Edney
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226184862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain used modern survey techniques to not only create and define the spatial image of its Empire, but also to legitimate its colonialist activities. "There is much to be praised in this book. It is an excellent history of how India came to be painted red in the nineteenth century. But more importantly, Mapping an Empire sets a new standard for books that examine a fundamental problem in the history of European imperialism."—D. Graham Burnett, Times Literary Supplement "Mapping an Empire is undoubtedly a major contribution to the rapidly growing literature on science and empire, and a work which deserves to stimulate a great deal of fresh thinking and informed research."—David Arnold, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History "This case study offers broadly applicable insights into the relationship between ideology, technology and politics. . . . Carefully read, this is a tale of irony about wishful thinking and the limits of knowledge."—Publishers Weekly
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226184862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain used modern survey techniques to not only create and define the spatial image of its Empire, but also to legitimate its colonialist activities. "There is much to be praised in this book. It is an excellent history of how India came to be painted red in the nineteenth century. But more importantly, Mapping an Empire sets a new standard for books that examine a fundamental problem in the history of European imperialism."—D. Graham Burnett, Times Literary Supplement "Mapping an Empire is undoubtedly a major contribution to the rapidly growing literature on science and empire, and a work which deserves to stimulate a great deal of fresh thinking and informed research."—David Arnold, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History "This case study offers broadly applicable insights into the relationship between ideology, technology and politics. . . . Carefully read, this is a tale of irony about wishful thinking and the limits of knowledge."—Publishers Weekly
Journal Kept During the Survey of the District of Shahabad in 1812-1813
Author: Francis Buchanan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shahabad
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shahabad
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A Distant Sovereignty
Author: Sudipta Sen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134903022
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
In this broad study of British rule in India during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Sudipta Sen takes up this dual agenda, sketching out the interrelationships between nationalism, imperialism, and identity formation as they played out in both England and South Asia.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134903022
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
In this broad study of British rule in India during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Sudipta Sen takes up this dual agenda, sketching out the interrelationships between nationalism, imperialism, and identity formation as they played out in both England and South Asia.
The 'Pāla-Sena' Schools of Sculpture
Author: Susan L Huntington
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004646507
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004646507
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Institutions in Colonial India
Author: I. Sengupta
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023011900X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
This volume seeks to revise the Saidian analytical framework which dominated research on the subject of colonial knowledge for almost two decades, which emphasized colonial knowledge as a series of representations of colonial hegemony. It seeks to contribute to research in the field by analyzing knowledge in colonial India as a dynamic process.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023011900X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
This volume seeks to revise the Saidian analytical framework which dominated research on the subject of colonial knowledge for almost two decades, which emphasized colonial knowledge as a series of representations of colonial hegemony. It seeks to contribute to research in the field by analyzing knowledge in colonial India as a dynamic process.