Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the East India CompanyPublisher:
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Category : Justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
The Fifth Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Affairs of the East India Company
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the East India CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
The Fifth Report from the Select Committee on the Affairs of the East India Company
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the East India CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
Copy of the fifth report from the select committee of the House of commons on the affairs of the East India company, 28th July 1812
Author: Parliament commons, procPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Fifth Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Affairs of the East India Company, 28th July, 1812: Introduction and Bengal appendices
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the East India CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Birth of a Colonial City
Author: Ranjit SenPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0429638981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Long before Calcutta was ‘discovered’ by Job Charnock, it thrived by the Hugli since times immemorial. This book, and its companion Colonial Calcutta, is a biographical account of the when, the how and the what of a global city and its emergence under colonial rule in the 1800s. Ranjit Sen traces the story of how three clustered villages became the hub of the British Empire and a centre of colonial imagination. He examines the historical and geopolitical factors that were significant in securing its prominence, and its subsequent urbanization which was a colonial experience without an antecedent. Further, it sheds light on Calcutta’s early search for identity — how it superseded interior towns and flourished as the seat of power for its hinterland; developed its early institutions, while its municipal administration slowly burgeoned. A sharp analysis of the colonial enterprise, this volume lays bare the underbelly of the British Raj. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern history, South Asian history, urban studies, British Studies and area studies.
Calcutta in Colonial Transition
Author: Ranjit SenPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0429576110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
This book brings home the story of how three clustered villages grew into a primate city, in which a garrison town, a port city and the capital of an empire merged into one entity—Calcutta. This and its companion volume Birth of a Colonial City examine the geopolitical factors that were significant in securing Calcutta's position in the light of growing influence of the East India Company and subsequently the British Empire. A definitive history of Calcutta in its nascent years, this book discusses the challenges of city-planning, the de-industrialization at the hands of British imperialists, the catastrophic fall of the Union Bank, the advent of British capital, and the rise of the Bengali business enterprise in the colonial era. It also underlines how Calcutta facilitated the development of a political consciousness and the pivotal political and cultural role it played when the movement for independence took hold in the country. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian history, British Studies, city and area studies.
Report on the Population Estimates of India: 1811-1820
Author: Durgaprasad BhattacharyPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Report on the Population Estimates of India: 1811-1820. pt. A. Eastern region
Author: Durgaprasad BhattacharyaPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Early Revenue History of Bengal
Author: Frank David AscoliPublisher:
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Category : Revenue
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Castes of Mind
Author: Nicholas B. DirksPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400840945
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. Rather than a basic expression of Indian tradition, caste is a modern phenomenon--the product of a concrete historical encounter between India and British colonial rule. Dirks does not contend that caste was invented by the British. But under British domination caste did become a single term capable of naming and above all subsuming India's diverse forms of social identity and organization. Dirks traces the career of caste from the medieval kingdoms of southern India to the textual traces of early colonial archives; from the commentaries of an eighteenth-century Jesuit to the enumerative obsessions of the late-nineteenth-century census; from the ethnographic writings of colonial administrators to those of twentieth-century Indian scholars seeking to rescue ethnography from its colonial legacy. The book also surveys the rise of caste politics in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the emergence of caste-based movements that have threatened nationalist consensus. Castes of Mind is an ambitious book, written by an accomplished scholar with a rare mastery of centuries of Indian history and anthropology. It uses the idea of caste as the basis for a magisterial history of modern India. And in making a powerful case that the colonial past continues to haunt the Indian present, it makes an important contribution to current postcolonial theory and scholarship on contemporary Indian politics.