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Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Proceedings of the Government of India. Home Department, 1864
Author: Coolies of Capitalism
Author: Nitin VarmaPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110461285
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
“Coolie” is a generic category for the “unskilled” manual labour. The offering of services for hire had various pre-colonial lineages. In the nineteenth century there was an attempt to recast the term in discursive constructions and material practices for “mobilized-immobilized” labour. Coolie labour was often proclaimed as a deliberate compromise straddling the regimes of the past (slave labour) and the future (free labour). It was portrayed as a stage in a promised transition. The tea plantations of Assam, like many other tropical plantations in South Asia, were inaugurated and formalized during this period. They were initially worked by the locals. In the late 1850s, the locals were replaced by labourers imported from outside the province who were unquestioningly designated “coolies” in the historical literature. Qualifying this framework of transition (local to coolie labour) and introduction (of coolie labour), this study makes a case for the “production” of coolie labour in the history of the colonial-capitalist plantations in Assam. The intention of the research is not to suggest an unfettered agency of colonial-capitalism in defining and “producing” coolies, with an emphasis on the attendant contingencies, negotiations, contestations and crises. The study intervenes in the narratives of an abrupt appearance of the archetypical coolie of the tea gardens (i.e., imported and indentured) and situates this archetype’s emergence, sustenance and shifts in the context of material and discursive processes.
Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Library of the Home Department, Government of India
Author: Library of the Home Department, Government of India (CALCUTTA)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Shooting a Tiger
Author: Vijaya Ramadas MandalaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199096600
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
The figure of the white hunter sahib proudly standing over the carcass of a tiger with a gun in hand is one of the most powerful and enduring images of the empire. This book examines the colonial politics that allowed British imperialists to indulge in such grand posturing as the rulers and protectors of indigenous populations. This work studies the history of hunting and conservation in colonial India during the high imperial decades of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At this time, not only did hunting serve as a metaphor for colonial rule signifying the virile sportsmanship of the British hunter, but it also enabled vital everyday governance through the embodiment of the figure of the officer–hunter–administrator. Using archival material and published sources, the author examines hunting and wildlife conservation from various social and ethnic perspectives, and also in different geographical contexts, extending our understanding of the link between shikar and governance.
Selections from Educational Records of the Government of India
Author: Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Prostitution, Race, and Politics
Author: Philippa LevinePublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415944472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Selections from Despatches Addressed to the Several Governments in India by the Secretary of State in Council
Author: Great Britain. India OfficePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
PARTY POLITICS IN JHARKHAND (1919-1990)
Author: L. N. RanaPublisher: The Write Order Publication
ISBN: 9357760288
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
The study unfolds the working of party politics in Jharkhand in the national background during the colonial and post-colonial period. This period witnessed manifold changes when the democratic system was partially introduced under the representative government and provincial autonomy. After Independence and the establishment of the Republic, the nature and working of the political parties underwent a sea change. The rise of regional political parties, their fragmentation and the emergence of new ones along with the demand for a seperate Jharkhand State have been discussed in detail. This book will be of great use to teachers, scholars, and students of history and political science, legislators, members of various parties, and all those interested in the study of regional political parties in India particularly in the Jharkhand State.