Author: George Devereux OswellPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The governors-general and Dupleix: Marquess Cornwallis, Marquess Wellesley, Marques of hastings, Earl Amherst, Lord William Bentinck, Earl of Auckland, Viscount hardings, Dupleix
Author: George Devereux OswellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Sketches of Rulers of India ...
Author: George Devereux OswellPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Marquess Cornwallis
Author: Walter Scott Seton-KarrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Liberalism in Empire
Author: Andrew SartoriPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520281683
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
While the need for a history of liberalism that goes beyond its conventional European limits is well recognized, the agrarian backwaters of the British Empire might seem an unlikely place to start. Yet specifically liberal preoccupations with property and freedom evolved as central to agrarian policy and politics in colonial Bengal.Ê Liberalism in Empire explores the generative crisis in understanding propertyÕs role in the constitution of a liberal polity, which intersected in Bengal with a new politics of peasant independence based on practices of commodity exchange. Thus the conditions for a new kind of vernacular liberalism were created. Andrew SartoriÕs examination shows the workings of a section of liberal policy makers and agrarian leaders who insisted that norms governing agrarian social relations be premised on the property-constituting powers of labor, which opened a new conceptual space for appeals to both political economy and the normative significance of property. It is conventional to see liberalism as traveling through the space of empire with the extension of colonial institutions and intellectual networks. SartoriÕs focus on the Lockeanism of agrarian discourses of property, however, allows readers to grasp how liberalism could serve as a normative framework for both a triumphant colonial capitalism and a critique of capitalism from the standpoint of peasant property.
Losing America, Conquering India
Author: Chaim M. RosenbergPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476628343
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
On October 19, 1781, British general Charles Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army at Yorktown, effectively ending the Revolutionary War and conceding the independence of the United States of America. Britain soon overcame the humiliation of defeat by expanding its empire elsewhere. Five years after Yorktown, Cornwallis was installed as governor and commander of the army in India, determined to make the subcontinent the brightest jewel in the British crown. Officers who served under him during the War rose to high positions in the British army and navy. Emulating Cornwallis's deep sense of duty to king and country, they vigorously pursued the conquest of India, put down the 1798 Irish Rebellion, defended Canada, defeated the Dutch at the Cape of Good Hope, occupied Ceylon and battled Napoleon. Prominent among them was General Sir James Henry Craig, governor of Canada, whose clumsy attempt to spy on the U.S. was a factor in setting off the War of 1812.
The governors-general and Dupleix: Marquess Cornwallis, Marquess Wellesley, Marquess of Hastings, Earl Amherst, Lord William Bentinck, Earl of Auckland, Viscount Hardinge, Dupleix
Author: George Devereux OswellPublisher:
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Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
All Is Well
Author: Saptarishi BandopadhyayPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197579191
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In the shadow of leviathans seen and unseen -- Corner pieces -- Marseille 1720 : administrative catharsis as disaster management -- Portugal 1755 : empire of accident -- Bengal 1770 : famine, corruption, and the climate of legal despotism -- Risk thinking and the enduring structure of vicissitudes -- The past-imperfect future.
Dictionary of Indian Biography
Author: C. E. BucklandPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Indian Empire
Author: William Wilson HunterPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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Early Writings on India
Author: H.K. KaulPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351867172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
This book, first published in 1975, is a comprehensive list of all the books on India, written in English before 1900. It is an invaluable reference source on India of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Apart from the work of professional writers, there are the writings of a cross-section of society from soldiers to scientists. We find dictionaries of obscure dialects written by government officials, descriptions of their travels by visiting clerics, homely details of everyday life by housewives, as well as technical and scientific works written by scholars.