Author: Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa SastriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Life and Times of Sir Pherozeshah Mehta
Author: Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa SastriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Encyclopaedia of Eminent Thinkers
Author: K. S. BharathiPublisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788180696381
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
In Indian context.
Life and Times of Lala Lajpat Rai
Author: Ke. Ke ŚarmāPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
On the life and times of Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian freedom fighter.
Sir Pherozeshah Mehta
Author: Hormasji Peroshaw ModyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Parsis of India
Author: Jesse PalsetiaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004491279
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Parsis of India examines a much-neglected area of Asian Studies. In tracing keypoints in the development of the Parsi community, it depicts the Parsis’ history, and accounts for their ability to preserve, maintain and construct a distinct identity. For a great part the story is told in the colonial setting of Bombay city. Ample attention is given to the Parsis’ evolution from an insular minority group to a modern community of pluralistic outlook. Filling the obvious lacunae in the literature on British colonialism, Indian society and history, and, last but not least, Zoroastrianism, this book broadens our knowledge of the interaction of colonialism and colonial groups, and elucidates the significant role of the Parsis in the commercial, educational, and civic milieu of Bombay colonial society.
The Global Transformation of Time
Author: Vanessa OglePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674737024
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
As new networks of railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle’s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced in establishing international standards. Time played a foundational role in nineteenth-century globalization. Growing interconnectedness prompted contemporaries to reflect on the annihilation of space and distance and to develop a global consciousness. Time—historical, evolutionary, religious, social, and legal—provided a basis for comparing the world’s nations and societies, and it established hierarchies that separated “advanced” from “backward” peoples in an age when such distinctions underwrote European imperialism. Debates and disagreements on the varieties of time drew in a wide array of observers: German government officials, British social reformers, colonial administrators, Indian nationalists, Arab reformers, Muslim scholars, and League of Nations bureaucrats. Such exchanges often heightened national and regional disparities. The standardization of clock times therefore remained incomplete as late as the 1940s, and the sought-after unification of calendars never came to pass. The Global Transformation of Time reveals how globalization was less a relentlessly homogenizing force than a slow and uneven process of adoption and adaptation that often accentuated national differences.
An Independent, Colonial Judiciary
Author: Abhinav ChandrachudPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199089485
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
In 2012, the Bombay High Court celebrated the 150th year of its existence. As one of three high courts first set up in colonial India in 1862, it functioned as a court of original and appellate jurisdiction during the British Raj for over 80 years, occupying the topmost rung of the judicial hierarchy in the all-important Bombay Presidency. Yet, remarkably little is known of how the court functioned during the colonial era. The historiography of the court is quite literally anecdotal. The most well known books written on the history of the court focus on humorous (at times, possibly apocryphal) stories about 'eminent' judges and 'great' lawyers, bordering on hagiography. Examining the backgrounds and lives of the 83 judges-Britons and Indians-who served on the Bombay High Court during the colonial era, and by exploring the court's colonial past, this book attempts to understand why British colonial institutions like the Bombay High Court flourished even after India became independent. In the process, this book will attempt to unravel complex changes which took place in Indian society, the legal profession, the law, and the legal culture during the colonial era.
Perspectives On Indian Poetry In English
Author: M.K. NaikPublisher: Abhinav Publications
ISBN: 9788170171508
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
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The Cloister's Pale
Author: Aruṇa ṬikekaraPublisher: Popular Prakashan
ISBN: 9788179912935
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
India
Author: Indian National Congress. British CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description