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Author : Desmond Higgins
Publisher : Melrose Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book In the Wake of the Raj written by Desmond Higgins and published by Melrose Book Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian St. John
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313097364
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Making of the Raj written by Ian St. John and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book opens up a frequently neglected aspect of the rise of British power in India: namely, the impact of that process upon the lives the Indian people themselves for three centuries. Most traditional Raj histories deal with the actions, motives, and thoughts of the British who occupied, governed, and administered the subcontinent. The Making of the Raj: India under the East India Company flips the focus and tells not of the rulers but concentrates on the Indian workers-the farmers, the millhands, the servants, and the gardeners. The book uncovers the untold and priceless tales of the individuals who were subjected to the rule of the British during the Raj, describing the impacts upon the lives of Indians themselves. The book traces the history of British interactions with India from their beginnings in the early 1600s, through to the establishment of Raj in the wake of the Indian Mutiny of 1857. The first part provides a narrative of the transformation of the East Indian company from trading enterprise to governing authority. The second portion of the text considers the effects of these developments thematically, examining issues such as the organization of agriculture, the development of the caste system, and the myriad changes in cultural and religious life.
Author : Ananya Vajpeyi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674071832
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Righteous Republic written by Ananya Vajpeyi and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What India’s founders derived from Western political traditions as they struggled to free their country from colonial rule is widely understood. Less well-known is how India’s own rich knowledge traditions of two and a half thousand years influenced these men as they set about constructing a nation in the wake of the Raj. In Righteous Republic, Ananya Vajpeyi furnishes this missing account, a ground-breaking assessment of modern Indian political thought. Taking five of the most important founding figures—Mohandas Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, and B. R. Ambedkar—Vajpeyi looks at how each of them turned to classical texts in order to fashion an original sense of Indian selfhood. The diverse sources in which these leaders and thinkers immersed themselves included Buddhist literature, the Bhagavad Gita, Sanskrit poetry, the edicts of Emperor Ashoka, and the artistic and architectural achievements of the Mughal Empire. India’s founders went to these sources not to recuperate old philosophical frameworks but to invent new ones. In Righteous Republic, a portrait emerges of a group of innovative, synthetic, and cosmopolitan thinkers who succeeded in braiding together two Indian knowledge traditions, the one political and concerned with social questions, the other religious and oriented toward transcendence. Within their vast intellectual, aesthetic, and moral inheritance, the founders searched for different aspects of the self that would allow India to come into its own as a modern nation-state. The new republic they envisaged would embody both India’s struggle for sovereignty and its quest for the self.
Author : Yasmin Khan
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184007159
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Raj at War written by Yasmin Khan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two and a half million Indians volunteered in the Second World War. Their stories had been lost and silenced, until now. Award-winning historian Yasmin Khan marshals interviews, newspaper reports and unseen archival material to tell the forgotten story of India’s role in the Second World War. We meet soldiers, sailors and non-combatants – prostitutes, nurses, cooks, peasants – whose lives were upended by a war far, far away. From a small Muslim boy arrested for singing anti-recruitment songs, to cooks preparing chapattis on army boats, to a family listening to illicit German radio broadcasts, and a love letter from the first Indian soldier to receive the Victoria Cross, Khan makes us feel and hear the lost voices of a people involved in a war that wasn’t of their choosing. Dramatizing a cataclysm that transformed the subcontinent and led to its independence, The Raj at War undeniably inserts South Asia back into World War II history and confirms that the Empire – and all its subjects – formed both the heart and limbs of Britain’s war efforts and eventual victory.
Author : Anne de Courcy
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297863835
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)
Download or read book The Fishing Fleet written by Anne de Courcy and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventurous young women who sailed to India during the Raj in search of husbands. From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and businessmen. With the advent of steam travel and the opening of the Suez Canal, countless young women, suffering at the lack of eligible men in Britain, followed in their wake. This amorphous band was composed of daughters returning after their English education, girls invited to stay with married sisters or friends, and yet others whose declared or undeclared goal was simply to find a husband. They were known as the Fishing Fleet, and this book is their story, hitherto untold. For these young women, often away from home for the first time, one thing they could be sure of was a rollicking good time. By the early 20th century, a hectic social scene was in place, with dances, parties, amateur theatricals, picnics, tennis tournaments, cinemas and gymkhanas, with perhaps a tiger shoot and a glittering dinner at a raja's palace thrown in. And, with men outnumbering women by roughly four to one, romances were conducted at alarming speed and marriages were frequent. But after the honeymoon, life often changed dramatically: whisked off to a remote outpost with few other Europeans for company, and where constant vigilance was required to guard against disease, they found it a far cry from the social whirlwind of their first arrival. Anne de Courcy's sparkling narrative is enriched by a wealth of first-hand sources - unpublished memoirs, letters and diaries rescued from attics - which bring this forgotten era vividly to life.
Author : Srinidhi Thanga Thirupathi
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 148288433X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Emberonium written by Srinidhi Thanga Thirupathi and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Abdul Rahman patted me on the shoulders and said, Well done, my child! You have held your flag high! That was really excellent! You have changed the fate of the world today! You really are a brave girl! You deserve to be the leader of the Phoenixians, and I am satisfied again that you will guide them. You have the power to control people, change their minds, and lead them. What happens when a meteorite powerful enough to turn all people above twenty-five into ashes once it reaches the earth? The plan has been plotted. Nothing is an accident! Its all well planned and decided by the so-called gods and goddesses who are nothing but mutants. Can a bunch of teens led by Bindu (Aadhmi, an intelligent robot, a multimillionaire scientist, and a saber-toothed tiger cub) fight against the gods master plan and the evil villain, Dr. Malik, and save the human population from destruction at the same time? To give a touch of awesomeness to this thrilling roller-coaster ride with a nail-biting finish, the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle is finally revealed!
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 : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007370342
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750–1914 written by Richard Holmes and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts from the soldiers who served in the jewel in Britain’s Imperial Crown.
Author : Michael Sandusky
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664168842
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)
Download or read book King written by Michael Sandusky and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Red Leopard of the Maurya has been following Michelangelo Barrier’s friend Rajmund Singh for over two millennia. Now, as the two men near the end of their ten-year odyssey with only the Himalayas to cross into India, the secret society makes its long-awaited move to bring Chandragupta Maurya back as King of India during British independence in 1948. The two best friends have survived jungle plane crashes and a Japanese prison camp. However, can a woman who looks like Vale, believed killed in a plane crash, stop Mike’s return home or Raj’ finding his destiny on that mountain peak?
Author : Kulbir Padda
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 146536322X
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)
Download or read book The Bride from India written by Kulbir Padda and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bride from India is a story of the ambitions and confl icts of the people from different cultures as they melt in the US pot. Manjit and Raj Pandher are Indian immigrants living in Houston, Texas. They succeed in marrying their son, Paul to Simmi from Punjab, after an elaborate Indian arranged matrimonial process, completely oblivious to the surprise awaiting them. On the other hand, the concept of the life in America that Simmi had developed in her mind from TV and internet is not what she encounters when she lands in the US. She renews her contact with her old lover in India..
Author : Chandrika Kaul
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846450143
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book An Indian History of the Raj written by Chandrika Kaul and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Gorra
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226304760
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book After Empire written by Michael Gorra and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In After Empire Michael Gorra explores how three novelists of empire—Paul Scott, V. S. Naipaul, and Salman Rushdie—have charted the perpetually drawn and perpetually blurred boundaries of identity left in the wake of British imperialism. Arguing against a model of cultural identity based on race, Gorra begins with Scott's portrait, in The Raj Quartet, of the character Hari Kumar—a seeming oxymoron, an "English boy with a dark brown skin," whose very existence undercuts the belief in an absolute distinction between England and India. He then turns to the opposed figures of Naipaul and Rushdie, the two great novelists of the Indian diaspora. Whereas Naipaul's long and controversial career maps the "deep disorder" spread by both imperialism and its passing, Rushdie demonstrates that certain consequences of that disorder, such as migrancy and mimicry, have themselves become creative forces. After Empire provides engaging and enlightening readings of postcolonial fiction, showing how imperialism helped shape British national identity—and how, after the end of empire, that identity must now be reconfigured.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gita V. Reddy
Publisher : Gita V. Reddy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Never Ever written by Gita V. Reddy and published by Gita V. Reddy. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Maybe we should get a divorce.” Raj utters the D-word and immediately regrets it. He hopes that Divya, who is deaf, hasn’t lip-read the words. But Divya has and is shattered that Raj wants to end their thirteen-year-old marriage. Determined to build a new life for herself and the children, she uses her deafness to ignore Raj as he tries to regain the ease of communication they had in the beginning of their marriage. From Reviews on Goodreads. It is a full-fledged novel condensed into only a few pages. Beautiful work, this. (Grady Harp, Hall of Fame Reviewer ) Gita Reddy has taken several delicate subjects and has handled them to the degree that even more experienced writers have missed.(D D Gott) Never Ever is a short story filled with heartfelt emotion and likable characters. It’s written sensitively and thoughtfully. (SEB) Although this is a short story, Gita Reddy does a good job of relating how important communication is in a relationship. I love the ending of this story! It is an example of how marriage should work.(Dawn H.) I loved this story! Sure there are other stories featuring the importance of communication in relationships but this one is unique with the wife being hearing-impaired.(Darswords.) “Never Ever” will make you want to tell your loved ones that you love them and think of other ways that you can show them that you care! (Penny Minding Mom) Highly emotional look into the struggles of marriage. I enjoyed this very much. It was well-written and riveting. I loved the ending. (Mai Tai Mama)
Author : Stanley A. Wolpert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195393945
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Shameful Flight written by Stanley A. Wolpert and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from the fall of Singapore in 1942 to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, this text provides a vivid behind-the-scenes look at Britain's decision to divest itself from the crown jewel of its empire. Wolpert, a leading authority on Indian history, paints memorable portraits of all the key participants.
Author : Penderel Moon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788190109802
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The British Conquest and Dominion of India written by Penderel Moon and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen Jennings
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1796077569
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Annie and Katie written by Karen Jennings and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annie and Katie met in college, and started working in their respective fields of endeavor. They met two men who would change not only their lives, but they would all learn the importance of communication. Annie and Katie came very close to losing not only their true loves, but their lives.
