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Author : P. Thankappan Nair
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ISBN 13 : 9780836412321
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Calcutta in the Eighteenth Century written by P. Thankappan Nair and published by . This book was released on 1984-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Calcutta in the 18th Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ranjit Sen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Stagnating City written by Ranjit Sen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ranjit Sen
Publisher : Calcutta : OPS Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Calcutta in the Eighteenth Century written by Ranjit Sen and published by Calcutta : OPS Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter James Marshall
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Eighteenth-century Calcutta written by Peter James Marshall and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R.J. Ross
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400961197
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Colonial Cities written by R.J. Ross and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: by ROBERT ROSS and GERARD J. TELKAMP I In a sense, cities were superfluous to the purposes of colonists. The Europeans who founded empires outside their own continent were primarily concerned with extracting those products which they could not acquire within Europe. These goods were largely agricultural, and grown most often in a climate not found within Europe. Even when, as in India before 1800, the major exports were manufactures, in general they were still made in the countryside rather than in the great cities. It was only on rare occasion when great mineral wealth was discovered that giant metropolises grew up around the site of extraction. Since their location was deter mined by geology, not economics, they might be in the most inaccessible and in convenient areas, but they too would draw labour off from the agricultural pursuits of the colony as a whole. From the point of view of the colonists, the cities were therefore in some respects necessary evils, as they were parasites on the rural producers, competing with the colonists in the process of surplus extraction. Nevertheless, the colonists could not do without cities. The requirements of colonisation demanded many unequivocally urban functions. Pre-eminent among these was of course the need for a port, to allow the export of colonial wares and the import of goods from Europe, or from other parts of the non-European world, in the country-trade as it was known around India.
Author : Emma Rothschild
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691156123
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Inner Life of Empires written by Emma Rothschild and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-25 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birth of the modern world as told through the remarkable story of one eighteenth-century family They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones--four sisters and seven brothers who lived in Scotland and around the globe in the fast-changing eighteenth century. Piecing together their voyages, marriages, debts, and lawsuits, and examining their ideas, sentiments, and values, renowned historian Emma Rothschild illuminates a tumultuous period that created the modern economy, the British Empire, and the philosophical Enlightenment. One of the sisters joined a rebel army, was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle, and escaped in disguise in 1746. Her younger brother was a close friend of Adam Smith and David Hume. Another brother was fluent in Persian and Bengali, and married to a celebrated poet. He was the owner of a slave known only as "Bell or Belinda," who journeyed from Calcutta to Virginia, was accused in Scotland of infanticide, and was the last person judged to be a slave by a court in the British isles. In Grenada, India, Jamaica, and Florida, the Johnstones embodied the connections between European, American, and Asian empires. Their family history offers insights into a time when distinctions between the public and private, home and overseas, and slavery and servitude were in constant flux. Based on multiple archives, documents, and letters, The Inner Life of Empires looks at one family's complex story to describe the origins of the modern political, economic, and intellectual world.
Author : Soumyendra Nath Mukherjee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Calcutta written by Soumyendra Nath Mukherjee and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social morphology of Calcutta in the nineteenth century. Some essays published previously.
Author : James Mulholland
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421439611
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Before the Raj written by James Mulholland and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Translocal Anglo-India -- A Cultural Company-State and the Colonial Public Sphere -- Newspapers and Reading Publics in Eighteenth-Century India -- The Vagrant Muse: Fashioning Reputation across Eurasia -- Undoing Britain in Bengal -- Tristram Shandy in Bombay -- Agonies of Empire: Captivity Narratives and the Mysore Wars, 1767-1799 -- Literary Culture of Colonial Outposts: Penang, Sumatra, Java, 1771-1816.
Author : Geoffrey Moorhouse
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571281133
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Calcutta written by Geoffrey Moorhouse and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the foreword to the first edition Geoffrey Moorhouse wrote:'In a sense, the story of Calcutta is the story of India . . . It is the story of how and why Empire was created and what happened when Empire finished . . . The imperial residue of Calcutta, a generation after Empire ended, is both a monstrous and a marvellous city. Journalism and television have given us a rough idea of the monstrosities but none at all of the marvels. I can only hope to define the first more clearly and to persuade anyone interested that the second is to be found there too'. Geoffrey Moorhouse succeeds triumphantly in his aims. First published in 1971 this title has stood the test of time. Remarkably it was the first full-length study of Calcutta, seat of the British Raj, since 1918.'The book is organized out of a profound understanding of the true issues and is brilliantly executed.' Paul Scott, Guardian
Author : Charles Robert Wilson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Early Annals of the English in Bengal written by Charles Robert Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 110 pages
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Download or read book Bengal, Past & Present written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Debjani Bhattacharyya
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108681727
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta written by Debjani Bhattacharyya and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta? This history of dramatic ecological changes in the Bengal Delta from 1760 to 1920 involves land, water and humans, tracing the stories and struggles that link them together. Pushing beyond narratives of environmental decline, Bhattacharyya argues that 'property-thinking', a governing tool critical in making land and water discrete categories of bureaucratic and legal management, was at the heart of colonial urbanization and the technologies behind the draining of Calcutta. The story of ecological change is narrated alongside emergent practices of land speculation and transformation in colonial law. Bhattacharyya demonstrates how this history continues to shape our built environments with devastating consequences, as shown in the Bay of Bengal's receding coastline.
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 : Ranjit Sen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429576110
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Calcutta in Colonial Transition written by Ranjit Sen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : John R. McLane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521526548
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Land and Local Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Bengal written by John R. McLane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-25 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the politics and culture of eastern India's landed chiefs.
Author : Peter James Marshall
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book East Indian Fortunes written by Peter James Marshall and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1976 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
