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India And Britain Over Four Centuries Of Shared Heritage
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Book Synopsis India and Britain: Over Four Centuries of Shared Heritage by : Kusoom Vadgama
Download or read book India and Britain: Over Four Centuries of Shared Heritage written by Kusoom Vadgama and published by Austin Macauley. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English trading ships arrived on the shores of India in 1591. Less than a decade later, in 1600, Queen Elizabeth I granted a Royal Charter to the East India Company, giving it a monopoly on trade with India. King James I appointed Sir Thomas Roe as England's first envoy to the Court of the Moghul Emperor Jahangir, presenting himself for the first time on 10 January 1616. That same year, the first recorded Indian to visit England was baptised in a church in the City of London. This book celebrates over 400 years of shared history and heritage between the two nations. The British went to India initially as traders, gradually occupying the country and eventually becoming rulers. The characters and influences of those who governed for 347 years, first the East India Company and then the Raj, are carefully presented to show both the substantial benefits and the ruthless exploitation of their colonial rule. Despite its value to the British Empire, it was the colonial government's own actions which brought about its demise. Misguided acts of brutality such as the suppression of the mutiny in 1857, and the senseless massacre at Jallianwalla Bagh in 1919, led to an unstoppable nationalist movement for self-determination and independence, many of whose leaders were educated at elite schools created by the colonial government or at English public schools. Despite the bitterness of the struggle for freedom, Indian national leaders did not want to sever relationships with Britain when it finally gained independence in 1947, and despite huge differences in culture and religion, the bond between the two countries has continued for over 400 years from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I to the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Without India, economically, and the sacrifice of Indian soldiers in both World Wars, Britain would not be where it is today. Without Britain, India would not be a unified country in law, language and education, or the global power it has become.
Book Synopsis From Plunder to Preservation by : Astrid Swenson
Download or read book From Plunder to Preservation written by Astrid Swenson and published by OUP/British Academy. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the effect of the British Empire on the cultures and civilisations of the peoples it ruled by considering the impact of empire on the idea of 'heritage'. Case studies and illustrations show how our understanding of the diverse heritages of world history was forged in the crucible of the British Empire.
Book Synopsis Imperial Encounters by : Peter van der Veer
Download or read book Imperial Encounters written by Peter van der Veer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picking up on Edward Said's claim that the historical experience of empire is common to both the colonizer and the colonized, Peter van der Veer takes the case of religion to examine the mutual impact of Britain's colonization of India on Indian and British culture. He shows that national culture in both India and Britain developed in relation to their shared colonial experience and that notions of religion and secularity were crucial in imagining the modern nation in both countries. In the process, van der Veer chronicles how these notions developed in the second half of the nineteenth century in relation to gender, race, language, spirituality, and science. Avoiding the pitfalls of both world systems theory and national historiography, this book problematizes oppositions between modern and traditional, secular and religious, progressive and reactionary. It shows that what often are assumed to be opposites are, in fact, profoundly entangled. In doing so, it upsets the convenient fiction that India is the land of eternal religion, existing outside of history, while Britain is the epitome of modern secularity and an agent of history. Van der Veer also accounts for the continuing role of religion in British culture and the strong part religion has played in the development of Indian civil society. This masterly work of scholarship brings into view the effects of the very close encounter between India and Britain--an intimate encounter that defined the character of both nations.
Book Synopsis Inglorious Empire by : Shashi Tharoor
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.
Book Synopsis IKUWA6. Shared Heritage: Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress for Underwater Archaeology by : Jennifer A. Rodrigues
Download or read book IKUWA6. Shared Heritage: Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress for Underwater Archaeology written by Jennifer A. Rodrigues and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the theme ‘Shared heritage’, this volume presents the peer-reviewed proceedings from IKUWA6 (the 6th International Congress for Underwater Archaeology, Fremantle 2016). Papers offer a stimulating diversity of themes and niche topics of value to maritime archaeology practitioners, researchers, students, museum professionals and more.
Book Synopsis A History of Asia by : Rhoads Murphey
Download or read book A History of Asia written by Rhoads Murphey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 1213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Asia is the only text to cover the area known as "monsoon Asia" - India, China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia--from the earliest times to the present. Written by leading scholar Rhoads Murphey, the book uses an engaging, lively tone to chronicle the complex political, social, intellectual, and economic histories of this area. Popular because of its scope and coverage, as well as its illustrations, maps, and many boxed primary sources, the new edition of A History of Asia continues as a leader in its field.
Download or read book Museum written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Shared Heritage, the Growth of Civilizations in India and Iran by : Indian History Congress. Session
Download or read book A Shared Heritage, the Growth of Civilizations in India and Iran written by Indian History Congress. Session and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essays In The Present Volume Are An Effort To Explore How Much The Growth Of Civilizations In India And Iran Owes To What Each Of These Countries Has Received From The Other, And To Bring Out How Much Of Their History We Will Miss If We Overlook The Heritage They Share.
Book Synopsis Journals of the Century by : Tony Stankus
Download or read book Journals of the Century written by Tony Stankus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 2002, gathers some of America's top subject expert librarians to determine the most influential journals in their respective fields. 32 contributing authors reviewed journals from over twenty countries that have successfully shaped the evolution of their individual specialties worldwide. Their choices reflect the history of each discipline or profession, taking into account rivalries between universities, professional societies, for-profit and not-for-profit publishers, and even nation-states and international ideologies, in each journal's quest for reputational dominance. Each journal was judged using criteria such as longevity of publication, foresight in carving out its niche, ability to attract & sustain professional or academic affiliations, opinion leadership or agenda-setting power, and ongoing criticality to the study or practice of their field. The book presents wholly independent reviewers; none are in the employ of any publisher, but each is fully credentialed and well published, and many are award-winners. The authors guide college and professional school librarians on limited budgets via an exposition of their analytical and critical winnowing process in determining the classic resources for their faculty, students, and working professional clientele.
Book Synopsis The Making of the Awadh Culture by : Madhu Trivedi
Download or read book The Making of the Awadh Culture written by Madhu Trivedi and published by Primus Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes an extensive study of the art and culture of Awadh during the Nawabi period (c. 1722-1856), with a focus on the city of Lucknow. The work takes up evidence available in a variety of primary and secondary sources, especially in the Persian and Urdu languages, in its study of visuals and artefacts, as well as performance traditions and craft techniques which are derived from this period. Highlighting the literary milieu of the period, and the developments in the realm of music, painting, architecture and industrial arts, this volume also explores how some of the arts and crafts assumed considerable European colour, and demonstrates how the ethos of the syncretic Indo-Persian culture, the renowned ganga-jamuni tahzib, remained intact.
Book Synopsis Nationalism and Globalisation by : Stephen Tierney
Download or read book Nationalism and Globalisation written by Stephen Tierney and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses a seemingly paradoxical situation. On the one hand, nationalism from Scotland to the Ukraine remains a resilient political dynamic, fostering secessionist movements below the level of the state. On the other, the competence and capacity of states, and indeed the coherence of nationalism as an ideology, are increasingly challenged by patterns of globalisation in commerce, cultural communication and constitutional authority beyond the state. It is the aim of this book to shed light on the relationship between these two processes, addressing why the political currency of nationalism remains strong even when the salience of its objective – independent and autonomous statehood – becomes ever more attenuated. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach both within law and beyond, with contributions from international law, constitutional law, constitutional theory, history, political science and sociology. The challenge for our time is considerable. Global networks grow ever more sophisticated while territorial borders, such as those in Eastern and Central Europe, become seemingly more unstable. It is hoped that this book, by bringing together areas of scholarship which have not communicated with one another as much as they might, will help develop an ongoing dialogue across disciplines with which better to understand these challenging, and potentially destabilising, developments.
Book Synopsis India in Britain by : Kusoom Vadgama
Download or read book India in Britain written by Kusoom Vadgama and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Politics and Religion in Eighteenth-Century India by : Sachi K. Patel
Download or read book Politics and Religion in Eighteenth-Century India written by Sachi K. Patel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the contribution of Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava theology to polity and public engagement during the reign of Jaisingh II in the early eighteenth century in North India. The book analyses specialised treatises produced by the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas which provide theological foundations to endorse and encourage responsible public conduct. Using a two-fold approach, the book offers a close reading and examination of Sanskrit primary sources combined with an exploration of the key themes in these works in light of the wider political context. These works were born in a precise historical context; thus, to fully appreciate these works, this book adopts an approach that smudges the boundaries between history, religion and politics. It provides a historical account of the rise of the Kachvāhā clan to become the chief partners of the Mughal regime, exploring the effects, reign and governance of the celebrated Kachvāhā King Jaisingh II and examines the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava community’s trials and tribulations as they entered an intensely political world. A detailed analysis of a fascinating period within Gauḍīa Vaiṣṇva history, this book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of South Asian Studies, Indology, Religious Studies, South Asian History and Hindu Studies.
Download or read book Mughal Arcadia written by Sunil Sharma and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Lingua Persica -- Mughal Persian literary culture -- The Mughal discovery of India -- Celebrating imperial cities -- Mughal Arcadia -- Conclusion: Paradise lost
Book Synopsis Uses of Heritage by : Laurajane Smith
Download or read book Uses of Heritage written by Laurajane Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining international case studies including USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, this book identifies and explores the use of heritage throughout the world. Challenging the idea that heritage value is self-evident, and that things must be preserved, it demonstrates how it gives tangibility to the values that underpin different communities.
Book Synopsis Oswaal UPSC CSE Mains 11 Years Solved Papers (2013-2023) General Studies For Civil Services Exams 2024 by : Oswaal Editorial Board
Download or read book Oswaal UPSC CSE Mains 11 Years Solved Papers (2013-2023) General Studies For Civil Services Exams 2024 written by Oswaal Editorial Board and published by Oswaal Books. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description of the product: 1) Time-Tested Excellence: This book is a time machine through 11 years of UPSC Main papers, including the 2023 edition. 2) Practice Makes Perfect: Extensive solved papers offer you ample opportunities to practice and build the confidence you need. 3) Answer Writing Mastery: Unlock the art of effective answer writing with valuable exam insights. 4) Clarity Through Explanation: This book provides approach to each question and extensive model answers with current examples to ensure your understanding is rock solid. 5) Stay Ahead with Trends: Our Micro Trend Analysis keeps you up to date with evolving question patterns, making you 100% exam-ready. 6) Expert Mentorship: Seek guidance and overcome exam jitters with expert advice and tips.
Book Synopsis An Environmental History of India by : Michael H. Fisher
Download or read book An Environmental History of India written by Michael H. Fisher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This longue durée survey of the Indian subcontinent's environmental history reveals the complex interactions among its people and the natural world.
