Author: Robert Montgomery MartinPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
Book Description
The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India
Author: Robert Montgomery MartinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
Book Description
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.
The Taste of Empire
Author: Lizzie CollinghamPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465093175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
A history of the British Empire told through twenty meals eaten around the world In The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through twenty meals over the course of 450 years, from the Far East to the New World, Collingham explains how Africans taught Americans how to grow rice, how the East India Company turned opium into tea, and how Americans became the best-fed people in the world. In The Taste of Empire, Collingham masterfully shows that only by examining the history of Great Britain's global food system, from sixteenth-century Newfoundland fisheries to our present-day eating habits, can we fully understand our capitalist economy and its role in making our modern diets.
Religion, Science, and Empire
Author: Peter GottschalkPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195393015
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Peter Gottschalk offers a compelling study of how, through the British implementation of scientific taxonomy in the subcontinent, Britons and Indians identified an inherent divide between mutually antagonistic religious communities. England's ascent to power coincided with the rise of empirical science as an authoritative way of knowing not only the natural world, but the human one as well. The British scientific passion for classification, combined with the Christian impulse to differentiate people according to religion, led to a designation of Indians as either Hindu or Muslim according to rigidly defined criteria that paralleled classification in botanical and zoological taxonomies. Through an historical and ethnographic study of the north Indian village of Chainpur, Gottschalk shows that the Britons' presumed categories did not necessarily reflect the Indians' concepts of their own identities, though many Indians came to embrace this scientism and gradually accepted the categories the British instituted through projects like the Census of India, the Archaeological Survey of India, and the India Museum. Today's propogators of Hindu-Muslim violence often cite scientistic formulations of difference that descend directly from the categories introduced by imperial Britain. Religion, Science, and Empire will be a valuable resource to anyone interested in the colonial and postcolonial history of religion in India.
The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India
Author: Robert Montgomery MartinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108046509
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 717
Book Description
A three-volume work of 1838, collating earlier survey material on the East India Company's territories in Eastern India.
Bulletin
Author: Cincinnati (Ohio), Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: The general library
Author: London Institution. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Bulletin of Books in the Various Departments of Literature and Science Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati During the Year...
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton CountyPublisher:
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Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Annual List of Books Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton CountyPublisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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