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Category : Ootacamund
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Ootacamund
Author: Ootacamund: A History
Author: Frederick PricePublisher: books catalog
ISBN: 9788171677757
Category : Udagamandalam (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Frederick Price wrote this extraordinary treatise on Ootacamund at the request of His Excellency Lord Ampthill, the then Governor of Madras in the first decade of the last century. It is a superb exposition on the history, institutions and attractions of Ootacamund. The author's interest and knowledge of the place is evident from every sentence of this book. It is a brilliantly researched chronicle.
Ootacamund
Author: Frederick PriceOotacamund
The Nilgiris
Author: W. FrancisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nīlgiri (India : District)
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Magic Mountains
Author: Dane KennedyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520311000
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Perched among peaks that loom over heat-shimmering plains, hill stations remain among the most curious monuments to the British colonial presence in India. In this engaging and meticulously researched study, Dane Kennedy explores the development and history of the hill stations of the raj. He shows that these cloud-enshrouded havens were sites of both refuge and surveillance for British expatriates: sanctuaries from the harsh climate as well as an alien culture; artificial environments where colonial rulers could nurture, educate, and reproduce themselves; commanding heights from which orders could be issued with an Olympian authority. Kennedy charts the symbolic and sociopolitical functions of the hill stations over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, arguing that these highland communities became much more significant to the British colonial government than mere places for rest and play. Particularly after the revolt of 1857, they became headquarters for colonial political and military authorities. In addition, the hill stations provided employment to countless Indians who worked as porters, merchants, government clerks, domestics, and carpenters. The isolation of British authorities at the hill stations reflected the paradoxical character of the British raj itself, Kennedy argues. While attempting to control its subjects, it remained aloof from Indian society. Ironically, as more Indians were drawn to these mountain areas for work, and later for vacation, the carefully guarded boundaries between the British and their subjects eroded. Kennedy argues that after the turn of the century, the hill stations were increasingly incorporated into the landscape of Indian social and cultural life. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.
Other Landscapes
Author: Deborah SuttonPublisher: NIAS Press
ISBN: 8776940276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Deborah Sutton recounts the failed British attempt to settle, transform and govern the cooler uplands of South India. It is a fascinating story bringing together strands from agrarian, environmental, administrative and cultural history.
F, History and historical biography. G, Archaeology and historical collaterals. 1923
Author: William Swan SonnenscheinPublisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Colonial Self-Fashioning in British India, c. 1785-1845
Author: Prasannajit de SilvaPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527514285
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
A stereotypical view of the nineteenth-century British in India, which might be characterised as one of deliberate isolation and segregation from their surroundings, has recently been complemented by one evoking a high degree of integration and closer co-existence in the eighteenth century. Focusing on a period which straddles this apparent shift, this book explores a variety of ways in which British residents in India represented their lives through visual material, and reveals a more nuanced position. Consideration of these images, which have often been overlooked in the scholarly literature, opens up questions of identity facing the British population in India at this time and facing colonial societies more generally, and issues about the role of visual culture in negotiating them. It also underlines the fragile and contested nature of identity: the colonists’ self-fashioning encompassed not only expressions of difference from their Indian setting, but also what distinguished them from their compatriots back in Britain, as well as engaging with metropolitan attitudes towards, and prejudices about, them.
In the club
Author: Benjamin B CohenPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 0719098106
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In the club presents a comprehensive examination of social clubs across South Asia, arguing for clubs as key contributors to South Asia’s colonial associational life and civil society. Using government records, personal memoirs, private club records, and club histories themselves, In the club explores colonial club life with chapters arranged thematically: the legal underpinnings of clubs; their physical locations and compositions; their financial health; the role of servants and staff as employees of clubs; issues of race and class in clubs; women’s clubs; and finally clubs in their postcolonial milieus. This book will be critical reading for scholars of South Asia, graduate students, and intellectually engaged club members alike.