Author: Robert CaldwellPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336886095X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
A Political and General History of the District of Tinnevelly, in the Presidency of Madras
Author: Robert CaldwellPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336886095X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
A History of Tinnevelly
Author: Bishop R. CaldwellPublisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120601611
Category : Tirunelveli (India : District)
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Presents The History Of Tinnevelly From The Earliest Period To The Cession To The English Government In 1801 A.D. 10 Chapters - 5 Appendices - Index.
Author: Susan Billington HarperPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802846432
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
This book presents the only critical study of the public life and legacy of V. S. Azariah (1874-1945), the first Indian bishop of an Anglican diocese and the most successful leader of rural conversion movements to Christianity in modern India. Harper carefully explores Bishop Azariah's work, including his attempts to redress racism and improve social conditions in India, and documents -- for the first time anywhere -- the previously unknown controversy between Bishop Azariah and the great Mahatma Gandhi.
In the Shadow of the Mahatma
Author: Susan Billington HarperPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136832645
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 685
Book Description
This is a biography of Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah (1874-1945), bishop of the Anglican Church in India from 1912 until his death in 1945. His life sheds new light on the challenges and opportunities faced by religious minorities throughout the world today. As a Christian leader in a non-Christian culture, he negotiated complex cultural, social, political, and economic pressure with exceptional skill and diplomacy. As the first Indian bishop of an Anglican diocese, and as modern India's most successful leader of depressed class and non-Brahmin conversion movements to Christianity, Azariah was equally at home with the untouchables of rural India and the unreachables of the British Empire. From this platform Azariah inevitably came into contact - and, ironically, also into conflict - with the dominating presence of Mahatma Gandhi. Susan Billington Harper here reconstructs major events and issues of Azariah's public life, including a previously unstudied controversy with Gandhi over the issue of conversion and relgious freedom in the 1930s. Based on hitherto untapped primary sources, including diocesan records and vernacular oral histories expressed in both stories and songs, this fascinating volume not only provides the first critical study of Bishop Azariah's life but also offers important - at times challenging - insights for those interested in modern India and the place of Christianity within it.
The Academy and Literature
Author: 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.
Coromandel
Author: Charles AllenPublisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 1408705400
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
COROMANDEL. A name which has been long applied by Europeans to the Northern Tamil Country, or (more comprehensively) to the eastern coast of the Peninsula of India. This is the India highly acclaimed historian Charles Allen visits in this fascinating book. Coromandel journeys south, exploring the less well known, often neglected and very different history and identity of the pre-Aryan Dravidian south. During Allen's exploration of the Indian south he meets local historians, gurus and politicians and with their help uncovers some extraordinary stories about the past. His sweeping narrative takes in the archaeology, religion, linguistics and anthropology of the region - and how these have influenced contemporary politics. Known for his vivid storytelling, for decades Allen has travelled the length and breadth of India, revealing the spirit of the sub-continent through its history and people. In Coromandel, he moves through modern-day India, discovering as much about the present as he does about the past.
Yusuf Khan
Author: Samuel Charles HillPublisher: London : Longmans, Green
ISBN:
Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Life of Muhammad Yusuf, Governor of Madura and Tinnevelly, d. 1764, during the British rule of India.
Land and Caste in South India
Author: Dharma KumarPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107644720
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Originally published in 1965, this book presents a study of Indian agricultural workers in the Madras Presidency region during the nineteenth century. The text incorporates analysis of changes in population, in cultivation, the distribution of land among landlords, tenants and labourers, and discussion of the economic and social status of the labourer. The main economic factors which contributed to the growth of landlessness during the century are then considered, particularly the pressure of population on land. A glossary and select bibliography are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Indian history, agriculture and socio-economic history.
The History of British India
Author: John F. RiddickPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313086230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This book is a history of British India from 1599 to 1947. It is divided into three parts addressing political history, topical studies, and a collection of four hundred biographies of noteworthy English men and women who played a role in the creation of British India. As the Elizabethan era approached its end, English life exuded a high sense of energy and optimism that drove men to the ends of the earth. The lure of wealth in the spices of the East Indies correlated well with English naval strengths. In London, the East India Company set the national vision of competition with the Portuguese, Dutch and French while in India it developed the ports of Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta. Britain dominated India's political landscape for over 300 years, yet in the twentieth century, the emergence of Gandhi and his use of civil disobedience shook the British government to its foundations. By March 1947, Lord Mountbatten had little more choice than to grant Indian independence or see it taken by Indians themselves.