Author: Francis HamiltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shahabad (India : District)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Journal of Francis Buchanan Kept During the Survey of the District of Shahabad in 1812-1813
Author: Francis HamiltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shahabad (India : District)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Journal of Francis Buchanan (afterwards Hamilton) Kept During the Survey of the Districts of Patna and Gaya in 1811-1812
Author: Francis HamiltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bhāgalpur (India : District)
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Journal of Francis Buchanan
Author: Francis BuchananPublisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120604599
Category : Gaya (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Kept During The Survey Of The District Of Patna & Gaya In 1811-1812.
Peasants and Monks in British India
Author: William R. PinchPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520916302
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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.
A Distant Sovereignty
Author: Sudipta SenPublisher: 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.
Journal Kept During the Survey of the Districts of Patna and Gaya in 1811-1812
Author: Francis HamiltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bihar (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Catalogue of Manuscripts in European Languages Belonging to the Library of the India Office ...: pt.I. The Orme collection, by S.C. Hill. 1916. pt.II. Minor collections and miscellaneous manuscripts, by the late George Rusby Kaye and Edward Hamilton Johnston. Sect. 1
Author: Great Britain. India Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
Book Description
Francis Buchanan in Southeast Bengal, 1798
Author: Francis HamiltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Institutions in Colonial India
Author: I. SenguptaPublisher: 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.
The Formation of the Colonial State in India
Author: Hayden J. BellenoitPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113449436X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In the period between the 1770s and 1840s, through the process of colonial state formation, the early colonial state in India was able to harness and extract vast amounts of agrarian wealth in north India. However, little is known of the histories of the Indian scribes and the role they played in shaping the early patterns of British colonial rule. This book offers a new way of interpreting the colonial state’s origins in north India. It examines how the formation of early agrarian revenue settlements exacerbated an extant late Mughal taxation tradition, and how the success of British power was shaped by this extant paper-oriented revenue culture. It goes on to examine how the service and cultural histories of various Hindu scribal communities fit within broader changes in political administration, taxation, patterns of governance and a shared Indo-Islamic administrative culture. The author argues that British power after the late eighteenth century came as much through bureaucratic mastery, paper and taxes as it did through military force and commercial ruthlessness. The book draws upon private family papers, interviews and Persian sources to demonstrate how the fortunes of scribes changed between empires, and the important role they played at the height of the British Raj by 1900. Offering a detailed account of how agrarian wealth provided the bedrock of the colonial state’s later patterns of administration, this book is a unique and refreshing contribution to studies in South Asian History, Governance and Imperialism.