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Author : Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book British India and Its Rulers written by Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. S. Cunningham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783348012713
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (127 download)
Download or read book British India and Its Rulers written by H. S. Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Stewart Cunningham
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528272490
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (724 download)
Download or read book British India and Its Rulers (Classic Reprint) written by Henry Stewart Cunningham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from British India and Its Rulers S.a. Statistical Abstract relating to British India, 1880. B. Report of the Indian Famine Commission, 1880. C.n. Kclb's Condition of Nations. A.s. Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, Mmuoch, 1868. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Shashi Tharoor
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780141987149
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (871 download)
Download or read book Inglorious Empire written by Shashi Tharoor and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inglorious Empire' tells the real story of the British in India from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj, revealing how Britain's rise was built upon its plunder of India. In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation. British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor takes on and demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial "gift" - from the railways to the rule of law -was designed in Britain's interests alone. He goes on to show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India's deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile industry.
Author : Henry Stewart Cunningham
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781357495398
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (953 download)
Download or read book British India and Its Rulers written by Henry Stewart Cunningham and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : David Gilmour
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374116857
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)
Download or read book The British in India written by David Gilmour and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An immersive portrait of the lives of the British in India, from the seventeenth century to Independence Who of the British went to India, and why? We know about Kipling and Forster, Orwell and Scott, but what of the youthful forestry official, the enterprising boxwallah, the fervid missionary? What motivated them to travel halfway around the globe, what lives did they lead when they got there, and what did they think about it all? Full of spirited, illuminating anecdotes drawn from long-forgotten memoirs, correspondence, and government documents, The British in India weaves a rich tapestry of the everyday experiences of the Britons who found themselves in “the jewel in the crown” of the British Empire. David Gilmour captures the substance and texture of their work, home, and social lives, and illustrates how these transformed across the several centuries of British presence and rule in the subcontinent, from the East India Company’s first trading station in 1615 to the twilight of the Raj and Partition and Independence in 1947. He takes us through remote hill stations, bustling coastal ports, opulent palaces, regimented cantonments, and dense jungles, revealing the country as seen through British eyes, and wittily reveling in all the particular concerns and contradictions that were a consequence of that limited perspective. The British in India is a breathtaking accomplishment, a vivid and balanced history written with brio, elegance, and erudition.
Author : Jon Wilson
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610392949
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Chaos of Empire written by Jon Wilson and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular image of the British Raj-an era of efficient but officious governors, sycophantic local functionaries, doting amahs, blisteringly hot days and torrid nights-chronicled by Forster and Kipling is a glamorous, nostalgic, but entirely fictitious. In this dramatic revisionist history, Jon Wilson upends the carefully sanitized image of unity, order, and success to reveal an empire rooted far more in violence than in virtue, far more in chaos than in control. Through the lives of administrators, soldiers, and subjects-both British and Indian-The Chaos of Empire traces Britain's imperial rule from the East India Company's first transactions in the 1600s to Indian Independence in 1947. The Raj was the most public demonstration of a state's ability to project power far from home, and its perceived success was used to justify interventions around the world in the years that followed. But the Raj's institutions-from law courts to railway lines-were designed to protect British power without benefiting the people they ruled. This self-serving and careless governance resulted in an impoverished people and a stifled society, not a glorious Indian empire. Jon Wilson's new portrait of a much-mythologized era finally and convincingly proves that the story of benign British triumph was a carefully concocted fiction, here thoroughly and totally debunked.
Author : Cunningham H.S.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)
Download or read book British India and Its Rulers written by Cunningham H.S. and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arvind Sharma
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9352641035
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (526 download)
Download or read book The Ruler's Gaze written by Arvind Sharma and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) is a seminal work in the field of postcolonial culture studies. It critiqued Western scholarship about the Eastern world for its patronizing attitude and tendency to view it as exotic, backward and uncivilized. Arvind Sharma, longstanding professor of comparative religion at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, now takes up the Palestinian academic's groundbreaking ideas - originally put forth predominantly in a Middle Eastern context - and tests them against Indian material. He explores in an Indian context Said's contention that the relationship between knowledge and power is central to the way the West depicts the non-West.Scholarly and accessible,The Ruler's Gaze throws fresh light on Indian colonial history through a Saidian lens.
Author : Douglas M. Peers
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191632090
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book India and the British Empire written by Douglas M. Peers and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Asian History has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance over the past thirty years. Its historians are not only producing new ways of thinking about the imperial impact and legacy on South Asia, but also helping to reshape the study of imperial history in general. The essays in this collection address a number of these important developments, delineating not only the complicated interplay between imperial rulers and their subjects in India, but also illuminating the economic, political, environmental, social, cultural, ideological, and intellectual contexts which informed, and were in turn informed by, these interactions. Particular attention is paid to a cluster of binary oppositions that have hitherto framed South Asian history, namely colonizer/colonized, imperialism/nationalism, and modernity/tradition, and how new analytical frameworks are emerging which enable us to think beyond the constraints imposed by these binaries. Closer attention to regional dynamics as well as to wider global forces has enriched our understanding of the history of South Asia within a wider imperial matrix. Previous impressions of all-powerful imperialism, with the capacity to reshape all before it, for good or ill, are rejected in favour of a much more nuanced image of imperialism in India that acknowledges the impact as well as the intentions of colonialism, but within a much more complicated historical landscape where other processes are at work.
Author : Caroline Keen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857721909
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Princely India and the British written by Caroline Keen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the latter part of the nineteenth century,the royal status of Indian princes was under threat in what became a critical period of transition from traditional to imperial rule.Weakened by treaties concluded with the British earlier in the century,the rulers were subject to a concentrated campaign by British officials to turn palace life into a westernised construct of morality,rules and regulations.Young heirs to the throne were exposed to a western education to encourage their enthusiasm for changes in the princely environment.At the same time bureaucracies constructed on the British Indian model were introduced to promote'good government'.In many cases,royal practice and authority were sacrificed in the urgency to install efficient and accountable methods of administration.Adult rulers were frequently sidelined in the intricacies of state politics and the traditional princely power base was steadily eroded. Using the framework of a princely life-cycle,this book evaluates British policy towards the princes during the period 1858-1909. Within this framework Caroline Keen examines disputed successions to Indian thrones,the reaction of young rulers to a western education, princely marriages and the empowerment of royal women,the administration of states,and efforts to alter court hierarchy and ritual to conform to strict British bureaucratic guidelines.A recurring theme is the frequently incompatible relationship between British officials posted to the states and their superiors within the Government of India. Rarely examined archival material is used to provide a detailed analysis of policy-making which deals with British procedure at all levels of officialdom. For scholars and researchers of South Asian and British imperial history this book casts new light upon a highly significant phase of imperial development and makes a major contribution to the understanding of the operation of indirect rule under the Raj.
Author : Anthony Read
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393318982
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (189 download)
Download or read book The Proudest Day written by Anthony Read and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting account of the end of the Raj--the most romantic of all the great empires--told in compelling and colorful detail by the authors of "The Deadly Embrace" and "The Fall of Berlin." of photos.
Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book What Life was Like in the Jewel in the Crown written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1999 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sail with the British to India and follow their progress from traders to rulers of the vast subcontinent. Examines the lives of British pirates, soldiers, diplomats, adventurers, and missionaries as well as Indian rulers, scholars, and soldiers. Explores the magnificent Mogul court and bustling Calcutta, and details the clash of East and West cultures leading to the harrowing Indian Uprising in 1857.
Author : H S Cunningham, Sir
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781359175014
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)
Download or read book British India Asnd Its Rulers written by H S Cunningham, Sir and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : C. A. Bayly
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521310543
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars written by C. A. Bayly and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1988-05-19 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely acclaimed when it first appeared in hard covers, Dr Bayly's authoritative study traces the evolution of North Indian towns and merchant communities from the decline of Mughal dominion to the consolidation of mature Victorian empire following the 'mutiny' of 1857. The first section of the book looks at the response of the inhabitants of the Ganges Valley to the 'Time of Troubles' in the eighteenth century. The second section shows how the incoming British, were themselves constrained to build their new empire on this resilient network of towns, rural bazaars and merchant communities; and how in turn colonial trade and administration were moulded by indigenous forms of commerce and politics. The third section focuses on the social history of the towns under early colonial rule and includes an analysis of the culture and business methods of the Indian merchant family. It is based in part on the private records and histories of the business people themselves.
Author : Robert Travers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139464167
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India written by Robert Travers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Travers' analysis of British conquests in late eighteenth-century India shows how new ideas were formulated about the construction of empire. After the British East India Company conquered the vast province of Bengal, Britons confronted the apparent anomaly of a European trading company acting as an Indian ruler. Responding to a prolonged crisis of imperial legitimacy, British officials in Bengal tried to build their authority on the basis of an 'ancient constitution', supposedly discovered among the remnants of the declining Mughal Empire. In the search for an indigenous constitution, British political concepts were redeployed and redefined on the Indian frontier of empire, while stereotypes about 'oriental despotism' were challenged by the encounter with sophisticated Indian state forms. This highly original book uncovers a forgotten style of imperial state-building based on constitutional restoration, and in the process opens up new points of connection between British, imperial and South Asian history.
Author : C.A. Bayly
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019908873X
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars written by C.A. Bayly and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This path-breaking work on the social and economic history of colonial India traces the evolution of north Indian towns and merchant communities from the decline of Mughal dominion to the consolidation of British empire following the 1857 'mutiny'. C.A. Bayly analyses the response of the inhabitants of the Ganges Valley to the upheavals in the eighteenth century that paved the way for the incoming British. He shows how the colonial enterprise was built on an existing resilient network of towns, rural bazaars, and merchant communities; and how in turn, colonial trade and administration were moulded by indigenous forms of commerce and politics. This edition comes with a new introduction.
