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Author : Kidambi Srinivasa Santha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Begums of Awadh written by Kidambi Srinivasa Santha and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the roles of the chief consorts (begums) of Oudh, 1792-1857.
Author : Nicholas B. Dirks
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674034260
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Scandal of Empire written by Nicholas B. Dirks and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many have told of the East India Company’s extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one of these men—Warren Hastings—was put on trial by Edmund Burke, it brought the Company’s exploits to the attention of the public. Through the trial and after, the British government transformed public understanding of the Company’s corrupt actions by creating an image of a vulnerable India that needed British assistance. Intrusive behavior was recast as a civilizing mission. In this fascinating, and devastating, account of the scandal that laid the foundation of the British Empire, Nicholas Dirks explains how this substitution of imperial authority for Company rule helped erase the dirty origins of empire and justify the British presence in India. The Scandal of Empire reveals that the conquests and exploitations of the East India Company were critical to England’s development in the eighteenth century and beyond. We see how mercantile trade was inextricably linked with imperial venture and scandalous excess and how these three things provided the ideological basis for far-flung British expansion. In this powerfully written and trenchant critique, Dirks shows how the empire projected its own scandalous behavior onto India itself. By returning to the moment when the scandal of empire became acceptable we gain a new understanding of the modern culture of the colonizer and the colonized and the manifold implications for Britain, India, and the world.
Author : Tahera Aftab
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004158499
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Inscribing South Asian Muslim Women written by Tahera Aftab and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an annotated source for the study of the public and private lives of South Asian Muslim women.
Author : Kenizé Mourad
Publisher : Europa Editions
ISBN 13 : 1609452429
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)
Download or read book In the City of Gold and Silver written by Kenizé Mourad and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling historical novel based on the little-known female warrior in nineteenth century India who led a revolt against the British. Here is the long-forgotten story of Begum Hazrat Mahal, queen of Awadh and the soul of the Indian revolt against the British, brought to vivid life by the author of Regards from the Dead Princess, a major bestseller in her native France. Begum was an orphan and a poetess who captured the attentions of King Wajid Ali Shah of Awadh and became his fourth wife. As his wife, she incited and led a popular uprising that would eventually prove to be the first step toward Indian independence. Begum was the very incarnation of resistance: As chief of the army and the government in Lucknow, she fought battles on the field for two years; she was a freedom fighter, a misunderstood mother, and an illicit lover. She was a remarkable woman who risked everything only to face the greatest betrayal of all.
Author : Anna Clark
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400849543
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Scandal written by Anna Clark and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are sex scandals simply trivial distractions from serious issues or can they help democratize politics? In 1820, George IV's "royal gambols" with his mistresses endangered the Old Oak of the constitution. When he tried to divorce Queen Caroline for adultery, the resulting scandal enabled activists to overcome state censorship and revitalize reform. Looking at six major British scandals between 1763 and 1820, this book demonstrates that scandals brought people into politics because they evoked familiar stories of sex and betrayal. In vibrant prose woven with vivid character sketches and illustrations, Anna Clark explains that activists used these stories to illustrate constitutional issues concerning the Crown, Parliament, and public opinion. Clark argues that sex scandals grew out of the tension between aristocratic patronage and efficiency in government. For instance, in 1809 Mary Ann Clarke testified that she took bribes to persuade her royal lover, the army's commander-in-chief, to promote officers, buy government offices, and sway votes. Could women overcome scandals to participate in politics? This book also explains the real reason why the glamorous Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, became so controversial for campaigning in a 1784 election. Sex scandal also discredited Mary Wollstonecraft, one of the first feminists, after her death. Why do some scandals change politics while others fizzle? Edmund Burke tried to stir up scandal about the British empire in India, but his lurid, sexual language led many to think he was insane. A unique blend of the history of sexuality and women's history with political and constitutional history, Scandal opens a revealing new window onto some of the greatest sex scandals of the past. In doing so, it allows us to more fully appreciate the sometimes shocking ways democracy has become what it is today.
Author : Subhadeep Paul
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666910945
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Heteronorm written by Subhadeep Paul and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Heteronorm: Interrogating Critical Alterities in Global Art and Literature explores exclusionary practices inspired by the construct of gender and how these conventions often misconstrue and convolute sex, gender, and sexual orientation. The contributors to this collection examine literary and visual representations of critical alterities from around the globe to produce empathic and inclusive analyses of experiences shared between diverse subordinated and minoritized socio-cultural entities and collectives. Organized into three parts, the chapters critique the concepts of personhood, performativity, and the post-binary. This edited collection deconstructs gender essentialism and embraces gender inclusivity in both theory and practice.
Author : Tulsi Badrinath
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199089566
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Chaturvedi Badrinath written by Tulsi Badrinath and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaturvedi Badrinath (1933‒2010), a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, 2009, for his work The Mahābhārata: An Inquiry in the Human Condition, was a passionate scholar of Indian philosophy, strikingly original in his approach. An Indian Administrative Service officer for 31 years, he delivered lectures on the concept of dharma and its application in modern times for which he drew extensively from the Mahabharata. In 1995, he was invited by The Times of India to contribute essays on Indian philosophy and thought. In the form of lucid discourses for the layperson, these dealt with dharma as the foundation of civilization. Ranging over perceptions of the self and the other; different ways of ordering society in Jainism, Islam, and Christianity; the paradox of sex; the roots of violence; and the quest for truth and peace, these essays gained wide acclaim and popularity. Badrinath’s daughter, Tulsi Badrinath, brings these essays together to present the reader with a book that explains the complex ideas of Indian philosophy in simple and accessible language.
Author : Brijesh Singh
Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9355016573
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Comprehensive Modern Indian History: From 1707 To The Modern Times (UPSC CSE Edition) written by Brijesh Singh and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers Modern Indian History part of the syllabus of the UPSC Civil Services Examination for General Studies - Preliminary as well as Mains Examinations. Text is accompanied with bullets, flowcharts, tables, graphs, maps, block diagrams, images, boxes, etc. to help in grasping the information in a systematic and scientific way. The book also covers questions on Modern Indian History part of the previous years, General Studies papers asked in the UPSC CSE and CDS examinations to help serious aspirants to assess the level of his/her preparation and understanding.
Author : Singh
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 9788131717530
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The Pearson Indian History Manual for the UPSC Civil Services Preliminary Examination written by Singh and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : EDITORIAL BOARD
Publisher : V&S Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9352150791
Total Pages : 1342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (521 download)
Download or read book General Studies Paper I written by EDITORIAL BOARD and published by V&S Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 1342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed by experienced professionals from reputed civil services coaching institutes and recommended by many aspirants of Civil Services Preliminary exam, General Studies Paper - I contains Precise and Thorough Knowledge of Concepts and Theories essential to go through the prestigious exam. Solved Examples are given to explain all the concepts for thorough learning. Explanatory Notes have been provided in every chapter for better understanding of the problems asked in the exam. #v&spublishers
Author : Fanny Parkes Parlby
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143029885
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Begums, Thugs and Englishmen written by Fanny Parkes Parlby and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fanny Parkes, Who Lived In India Between 1822 And 1846, Was The Ideal Travel Writer Courageous, Indefatigably Curious And Determinedly Independent. Her Delightful Journal Traces Her Journey From Prim Memsahib, Married To A Minor Civil Servant Of The Raj, To Eccentric Sitar-Playing Indophile, Fluent In Urdu, Critical Of British Rule And Passionate In Her Appreciation Of Indian Culture. Fanny Is Fascinated By Everything, From The Trial Of The Thugs And The Efficacy Of Opium On Headaches To The Adorning Of A Hindu Bride. To Read Her Is To Get As Close As One Can To A True Picture Of Early Colonial India The Sacred And The Profane, The Violent And The Beautiful, The Straight-Laced Sahibs And The More Eccentric White Mughals Who Fell In Love With India And Did Their Best, Like Fanny, To Build Bridges Across Cultures.
Author : Sushama Swarup
Publisher : Roli Books
ISBN 13 : 9788174368911
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (689 download)
Download or read book Costumes and Textiles of Awadh written by Sushama Swarup and published by Roli Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a fascinating journey, connecting dates and events to the evolution of costumes, textiles, colours, motifs and ornamentations from the eighteenth century up to present-day India.
Author : Andrew Otis
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 935492817X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (549 download)
Download or read book Hicky's Bengal Gazette written by Andrew Otis and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late eighteenth-century Calcutta. The British are well-ensconced in Bengal, but not yet an empire. Indian princes pose a danger to the East India Company's plans of commerce and domination. Warren Hastings, the British governor-general, is attempting to consolidate his power in the Company. Johann Zacharias Kiernander is on a mission to convert heathen souls in a land far from his native Sweden though he is not averse to lining his pockets while doing 'God's work'. Into this steaming cauldron of skullduggery and intrigue walks James Augustus Hicky, a wild Irishman seeking fame and fortune. Sensing an opportunity, he decides to establish a newspaper, the first of its kind in South Asia. In two short years, his endeavour threatens to lay bare the murky underside of the early British empire. Does it succeed? This is the story of the forces Hicky came up against, the corrupt authorities determined to stop him and of his resourcefulness. The product of five years of research by Andrew Otis in the archives of India, UK and Germany, Hicky's Bengal Gazette: The Story of India's First Newspaper is an essential and compelling addition to the history of subcontinental journalism.
Author : Farhat Hasan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009453033
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Voices in Verses written by Farhat Hasan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the women's biographical compendia, this is a study of the memory of women in the literary culture in early modern India.
Author : A. K. Shrikumar
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 0143067567
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Begum's Secret written by A. K. Shrikumar and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2010 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'What do you suggest, then? How do we mitigate this tragedy? Three years of drought . . . three years of starvation!' She realized it was his way of getting back at her. 'There is an answer, Your Majesty. What if a large imambara were to be built, bigger and more magnificent than any constructed so far in Hindustan? Every Mussulman in Allah's creation will remember Asaf-ud-daula with reverence for all time to come.' 1784. Amid famine, poverty, a grand culture rises: Awadh. As Nawab Asaf-ud-daula tries to come to terms with new British masters, his awam seeks comfort in the vibrant poetry of Mir, the buzz of the Chowk, the thrill of the wrestling matches and the gossip of the zenankhana. In masterful prose, A.K. Srikumar tells the story of Asaf-ud-daula's court and his people, of the uncertain fortunes of Begum Shams-un-nisa, Prince Wazir Ali, Nazir-i-Mahal Nuruddin, of the schemes of Naib Haider Baig Khan and Resident John Bristow and pretender Saadat Ali Khan, of the Bada Imambara and a culinary tradition that was born amidst the brick and mortar-dum pukht.
Author : Lâle Can
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253056632
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Subjects of Ottoman International Law written by Lâle Can and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The core of this edited volume originates from a special issue of the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (JOTSA) that goes well beyond the special issue to incorporate the stimulating discussions and insights of two Middle East Studies Association conference roundtables and the important work of additional scholars in order to create a state-of-the-field volume on Ottoman sociolegal studies, particularly regarding Ottoman international law from the eighteenth century to the end of the empire. It makes several important contributions to Ottoman and Turkish studies, namely, by introducing these disciplines to the broader fields of trans-imperial studies, comparative international law, and legal history. Combining the best practices of diplomatic history and history from below to integrate the Ottoman Empire and its subjects into the broader debates of the nineteenth-century trans-imperial history this unique volume represents the exciting work and cutting-edge scholarship on these topics that will continue to shape the field in years to come.
Author : Meghnad Desai
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 818475566X
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)
Download or read book The Rediscovery of India written by Meghnad Desai and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes India a nation? What has held its many disparate societies with their diverse, sometimes conflicting, narratives together for more than sixty years? What has allowed India to sustain its commitment to the democratic process, given its location in a region that is largely undemocratic? In this magisterial analysis of the last five hundred years of Indian history, Meghnad Desai looks at India’s colonial past, its struggle for independence and its many contemporary conundrums, to discover answers to the questions that have confronted India-watchers for decades. Rejecting much received wisdom, including narratives fashioned by India’s ruling establishment, Meghnad Desai goes back to the beginnings of the East–West encounter at the end of the fifteenth century and tracks its impact on the cultures and politics of the present day. Through a series of ‘Counterfactual Boxes’ Meghnad Desai analyses the accepted defining moments of India’s past and suggests alternative courses that history could so easily have taken. Meghnad Desai draws on a wealth of sources to illuminate India’s journey to the twenty-first century. Whether it is an examination of British parliamentary debates on the question of India’s independence, or the liberalization of the economy after decades of licence-permit raj, or the state’s complicity in the Gujarat riots, Meghnad Desai’s original, occasionally iconoclastic, approach to seemingly settled arguments makes The Rediscovery of India a path-breaking and comprehensive account of India’s past and present.
