Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download Memsahibs Writings full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Memsahibs Writings ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Indrani Sen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788125045526
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Memsahibs' Writings written by Indrani Sen and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Indira Ghose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Memsahibs Abroad written by Indira Ghose and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting anthology provides the best of travel writing by the memsahibs of the Raj who were anxious to see `the real India'. The book salvages long-forgotten writings by Englishwomen travelling in India. These historically valuable writings are perceptive and amusing, and have long been out of print. It also contains biographical notes on the travellers.
Author : Indrani Sen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Memsahib's Writings written by Indrani Sen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The white women of colonial India wrote extensively during their years of residence in India. This anthology brings together a fascinating collection of such European women's narratives. Mapped along the historical shifts that took place over the hundred-year period, the book captures the many facets and nuances of gender relations across racial divide. Imaginatively organised around key sites of contact, the narratives are arranged in fourteen thematic clusters. This book will appeal to readers interested in gender and colonialism and the writings of the Raj.
Author : Susmita Mittapalli
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621967956
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)
Download or read book The Male Empire Under the Female Gaze written by Susmita Mittapalli and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ipshita Nath
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1787388786
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Memsahibs written by Ipshita Nath and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For young Englishwomen stepping off the steamer, the sights and sounds of humid colonial India were like nothing they’d ever experienced. For many, this was the ultimate destination to find a perfect civil servant husband. For still more, however, India offered a chance to fling off the shackles of Victorian social mores. The word ‘memsahib’ conjures up visions of silly aristocrats, well-staffed bungalows and languorous days at the club. Yet these women had sought out the uncertainties of life in Britain’s largest, busiest colony. Memsahibs introduces readers to the likes of Flora Annie Steel, Fanny Parks and Emily Eden, accompanying their husbands on expeditions, travelling solo across dangerous terrain, engaging with political questions, and recording their experiences. Yet the Raj was not all adventure. There was disease, and great risk to young women travelling alone; for colonial wives in far-flung outposts, there was little access to ‘society’. Cut off from modernity and the Western world, many women suffered terrible trauma and depression. From the hill-stations to the capital, this is a sweeping, vividly written anthology of colonial women’s lives across British India. Their honesty and bravery, in their actions and their writings, shine fresh light on this historical world.
Author : Indrani Sen
Publisher : Studies in Imperialism
ISBN 13 : 9781526143488
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Gendered Transactions written by Indrani Sen and published by Studies in Imperialism. This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book seeks to capture the complex experience of the white woman in colonial India through an exploration of gendered interactions over the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines missionary and memsahibs' colonial writings, both literary and non-literary, probing their construction of Indian women of different classes and regions, such as zenana women, peasants, ayahs and wet-nurses. Also examined are delineations of European female health issues in male authored colonial medical handbooks, which underline the misogyny undergirding this discourse. Giving voice to the Indian woman, this book also scrutinises the fiction of the first generation of western-educated Indian women who wrote in English, exploring their construction of white women and their negotiations with colonial modernities. This fascinating book will be of interest to the general reader and to experts and students of gender studies, colonial history, literary and cultural studies as well as the social history of health and medicine."--
Author : Indrani Sen
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125021117
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Woman and Empire written by Indrani Sen and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing Upon A Wide Range And Variety Of Literary And Non-Literary Sources Of Nineteenth Century British India, Woman And Empire Examines Perceptions Of Gender Over The 1858 1900 Period. The Book Focuses On Representations Of White And Indian Women, In Addition To Women Of Mixed Races, In Fiction As Well As In Colonial Newspapers And Journals.
Author : Sara Jeannette Duncan
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib written by Sara Jeannette Duncan and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an absorbing work by a Canadian author and journalist, Sara Jeannette Duncan. This work sheds light on Indian social life and customs of the 19th century. Her close observations, description of manners, and wry humor make this a fascinating read, transforming the readers to a different time and place.
Author : Khushwant Singh
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 0670082414
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Sahibs who Loved India written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2008 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: &Lsquo;Thus We Both Were Tied To India With Every Possible Bond Of Memory And Affection, Which Clearly Played An Important Part In Our Lives&Hellip;As The Last Viceroy And Indeed&Nbsp;When I Stayed On As The First Governor-General Of The Independent Country Of India.&Rsquo; &Mdash;Lord Mountbatten A Rare Collection Of Essays That Invites The Reader To Revisit A Vanished Era Of Sahibs And Memsahibs. From Lord Mountbatten To Peggy Holroyde To Maurice And Taya Zinkin, Britishers Who Lived And Worked In India Reminisce About Topics And Points Of Interest As Varied As The Indian Civil Service And The Roshanara Club,&Nbsp;Shikar And Hazri, The Amateur Cine Society Of India And The Doon School, Rudyard Kipling And Mahatma Gandhi. &Nbsp; Selected From A Series Of Articles Commissioned By Khushwant Singh When He Was The Editor Of The Illustrated Weekly Of India These Delightfully Individualistic And Refreshingly Candid Writings Reveal A Fascinating Array Of British Attitudes, Experiences, Observations, Fond Memories, The Occasional Short-Lived Grouses And, Above All, A Deep And Abiding Affection And Respect For India.
Author : Sara Jeannette Duncan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (878 download)
Download or read book The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib written by Sara Jeannette Duncan and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Suchita Malik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Indian Memsahib written by Suchita Malik and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian Memsahib: The untold story of a bureaucrat's wife is an unconventional look into the world of Indian bureaucracy and its fascinating order. The book is a subtle attempt at showing how bureaucracy works in certain ways and brings out the conflict between popularity and credibility. Indian Memsahib traces Sunaina's journey from being an ambitious girl who wants to live life on her own terms to an 'outsider' bahu in a traditional family setup fighting her lone battle to the trials and tribulations of becoming the wife of Raghu, an upright and honest IAS officer.
Author : Pat Barr
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571279104
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book The Memsahibs written by Pat Barr and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of British women lived in India during Victorian times. They first went out as wives, mothers, sisters; others followed as teachers, doctors, missionaries. What they did and how they responded to their strange environment were seldom thought worthy of record, and writers have handed down to us a fictional image of the typical 'memsahib' as a frivolous, snobbish and selfish creature flitting from bridge to tennis parties 'in the hills'. For the most part, these clichés bear little resemblance to the truth; many women loyally and stoically accepted their share of the responsibility with endurance, courage and resilience. This story is developed around a number of women who wrote in an entertaining and intelligent fashion about their Indian experiences, starting with the arrival on the scene of one of the wittiest and cleverest of them all - Emily Eden, sister of Lord Auckland who was Governor-General from 1836 to 1842. It ends with Maud Diver, who maintained that the random assertion made by Kipling about the 'lower tone of social morality' in India was unjust and untrue. The dramatis personae of the book include Vicereines, wives of Civil Servants and missionaries struggling to break down the subservience of women throughout the vast sub-continent. Through women's eyes we witness the principal historic events at the time - the Afghan conflicts, the Mutiny - as well as the daily routines in very different cantonments and some of the British personalities who made their mark on nineteenth-century India - Honoria Lawrence, Flora Steel, Lady Sale. In this vivid account, Pat Barr evokes the sights and smells of Victorian India, its teeming masses, its problems so impossible, it seemed, for Englishwomen to solve.
Author : C. S. Godshalk
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805055344
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (553 download)
Download or read book Kalimantaan written by C. S. Godshalk and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-04-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions coexisted tenuously with one of the most violent cultures on earth, often with startling results: pockets of tenderness and extreme brutality appearing where least expected. Into this world flowed a small tribe of adventurers, fugitives, criminals, and saints-- the madly talented and simply mad. And the women followed: wives and would-be wives, spinster nursemaids and heartless schemers, the rigidly virtuous and the virtually desperate. And always, the children, innocents too often the victims of an elemental nature both lush and deadly. Kalimantaan is the story of this world, these people. But the deeper story resides in the realm of the heart. It is about love in absurd conditions, the tenacity of it as well as our ability to miss it repeatedly and with perverse genius.
Author : Keith Floyd
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 000736105X
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Floyd’s India written by Keith Floyd and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selling over 60,000 copies in hardback, this book has proven to be a fantastic hit with Floyd and curry fans alike. A sumptuous read, the book features witty anecdotes and fascinating historical insights, as well as a whole sub-continent of delicious recipes!
Author : Iftikhar H. Malik
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000396525
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Curating Lived Islam in the Muslim World written by Iftikhar H. Malik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the medieval period, this book collates and reviews first-hand scholarship on Muslims in the Middle East and South Asia, as noted down by eminent British travellers, sleuths and observers of lived Islam. The book foregrounds the pre-colonial and pre-Orientalist phase and locates the multi-disciplinarity of Britain’s relationship with Muslims over the last millennium to demonstrate a multi-layered interface. Fully sensitive to a gender balance, the book focuses on specially selected individuals and their transformative experiences while living and working among Muslims. Examining the writings of male and female authors including Adelard, Thomas Coryate, Mary Montagu and Fanny Parkes, the book analyses their understanding of Islam. Moreover, the author explores the works of a salient number of representative colonial British women to move away from the imperious wives stereotype and shed light on gender and Islam in Near East and South Asia by illustrating the status of women, tribal hierarchies, historic and architectural sites and regional politics. Going beyond familiar views about colonialism, travel writings and memsahibs without losing sight of the complex relations between Britain and Asian Muslims, this book will be of interest to academics working on British history, Imperial history, the study of religions, Shi’i Islam, Islamic studies, Gender and the Empire and South Asian Studies.
Author : Elleke Boehmer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191647241
Total Pages : 1286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Empire Writing written by Elleke Boehmer and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1998-07-02 with total page 1286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `The contact with . . .primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart.' (Joseph Conrad) `Flowers look loveliest in their native soil . . .plucked, they fade, And lose the colours Nature on them laid.' (Toru Dutt) This is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature in English, interweaving short stories, poems, essays, travel writing, and memoirs from the phase of British expansionist imperialism known as high empire. A rich and starling diversity of responses to the colonial experience emerges: voices of imperial; adventurers, administrators, memsahibs, propagandists and poets intermingle with West Indian and South African nationalists, Indian mystics, Creole balladeers, women activists and native interpreters. Drawn from India, Africa, the West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, and Britain, this wide-ranging selection reveals the vivid contrasts and subtle shifts in responses to colonial experience, and embraces some of empire's key symbols and emblematic moments. Comprehensive notes and full biographies ensure that this is one of the most compelling, readable and academically valuable source books on the period. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Ferdinand Mount
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471129470
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)
Download or read book The Tears of the Rajas written by Ferdinand Mount and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tears of the Rajas is a sweeping history of the British in India, seen through the experiences of a single Scottish family. For a century the Lows of Clatto survived mutiny, siege, debt and disease, everywhere from the heat of Madras to the Afghan snows. They lived through the most appalling atrocities and retaliated with some of their own. Each of their lives, remarkable in itself, contributes to the story of the whole fragile and imperilled, often shockingly oppressive and devious but now and then heroic and poignant enterprise. On the surface, John and Augusta Low and their relations may seem imperturbable, but in their letters and diaries they often reveal their loneliness and desperation and their doubts about what they are doing in India. The Lows are the family of the author's grandmother, and a recurring theme of the book is his own discovery of them and of those parts of the history of the British in India which posterity has preferred to forget. The book brings to life not only the most dramatic incidents of their careers - the massacre at Vellore, the conquest of Java, the deposition of the boy-king of Oudh, the disasters in Afghanistan, the Reliefs of Lucknow and Chitral - but also their personal ordeals: the bankruptcies in Scotland and Calcutta, the plagues and fevers, the deaths of children and deaths in childbirth. And it brings to life too the unrepeatable strangeness of their lives: the camps and the palaces they lived in, the balls and the flirtations in the hill stations, and the hot slow rides through the dust. An epic saga of love, war, intrigue and treachery, The Tears of the Rajas is surely destined to become a classic of its kind.
