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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Munshi's World of Imagination
Author: Munshi, Self-sculptor
Author: Jayana ShethPublisher: Bombay : Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
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Category : Authors, Gujarati
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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On the literary and sociopolitical activism of Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, 1887-1971; biographical presentation; includes an English translation of his Gujarati play Dhruvasvāminīdevī.
The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Sumit ChakrabartiPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000193683
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This book examines the location and representation of the colonial clerk or the kerani within the cultural and social space of nineteenth century colonial India. It provides a comparative history of the clerk in Calcutta vis-à-vis the clerk in contemporary London in order to understand the manifestations of modernity in these two disparate but intimately related spaces. The volume traces the socio-historical life of the clerk in the newly emerged city-space of Calcutta and reveals how the Bengali kerani became a complex and distinct figure of bureaucratic and colonial modernity. It analyses the techniques of surveillance and ethical training given to the native clerks and offers insights into the role of education in the production and dissemination of knowledge and hegemony in the colonial setting. The author, through a reading of clerk manuals, handbooks and literary representations, highlights the class and cultural identity of the English educated colonial clerk in the new city-space. He also focuses on the ambivalence and unreliability of the clerk or colonial babu who became complicit and gave legitimacy to the empire while personifying a complex modernity within the networks of the colonial administration. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of colonial and imperial history, literature, cultural studies, city studies, British studies, area studies, commonwealth studies and South Asian studies, particularly those interested in colonial Bengal.
The Munshis and the Sahibs
Author: Amalendu Kishore ChakrabortyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Select List of Recent Publications
Author: East-West Center. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : East and West
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Munshi, His Art and Work: Constructive work
Author: Shri Munshi Seventieth Birthday Citizens' Celebration CommitteePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Secretaries and Statecraft in the Early Modern World
Author: Dover Paul M. DoverPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474402240
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
One of the prominent themes of the political history of the 16th and 17th centuries is the waxing influence officials in the exercise of state power, particularly in international relations, as it became impossible for monarchs to stay on top of the increasingly complex demands of ruling. Encompassing a variety of cultural and institutional settings, these essays examine how state secretaries, prime ministers and favourites managed diplomatic personnel and the information flows they generated. They explore how these officials balanced domestic matters with external concerns, and service to the monarch and state with personal ambition. By opening various perspectives on policy-making at the level just below the monarch, this volume offers up rich opportunities for comparative history and a new take on the diplomatic history of the period.
The United States Catalog
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1674
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Abdullah Bin Abdul Kadir Munshi (In 2 Volumes)
Author: Hadijah Bte RahmatPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9811205817
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1276
Book Description
This book, Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munshi, is the most comprehensive, multi-disciplinary studies on Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir, widely known as Munshi Abdullah (1796-1854). He was a prominent literary figure and thinker in the Malay world in the 19th century and was also an early 'pioneer' of Singapore.The author, Professor Hadijah Rahmat, has spent more than 25 years studying Munshi Abdullah since her PhD studies in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, in 1992 to date. This book is covered in two volumes and is based on her research conducted using unexplored primary sources at several missionaries' archives at SOAS, London, Houghton Library, University Harvard, Library of Congress, Leiden University, KITVL, Holland, and the Perpustakaan Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta.The book consists of numerous academic papers presented at the regional and international seminars, and also published in international journals and as chapters of books. Besides academic papers, the excerpt of play titled Munsyi, sketches, poetry, and song, and interviews by the national media are also included.This book provides new insight into Abdullah's life, backgrounds, writings, his influences and legacies and the reactions and thought provoking views of the western and eastern scholars on Abdullah. The book is indeed the key reference for studies on Munshi Abdullah, Malay literature, and the history of Singapore, Malaysia, and colonialism in Southeast Asia.
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