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The Penguin 1857 Reader

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143101994
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin 1857 Reader written by Pramod K. Nayar and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2007 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: However infamous the conduct of the sepoys, it is only the reflex, in a concentrated form, of England's own conduct in India . . . Karl Marx 1857 was a defining moment in the history of the British Empire. As native troops in India -rebelled against their colonial masters and were joined by a large number of local chiefs, civilians and princes, the Empire almost lost its most prized territory. A hundred and fifty years later, scholars, academics and historians still argue about the exact nature of the uprising and the appropriate nomenclature for it: the First War of Independence, the Great Indian Mutiny, the Sepoy Rebellion. Debates still rage over its causes. Did it really originate from a dispute over greased cartridges? Was it premeditated? t surprisingly, the -uprising attracted both local and global attention and produced a massive archive of documents. The Penguin 1857 Reader depicts the historic event from various perspectives: English, Indian, European and American. Through a selection of documents of the time, it provides glimpses into the actions across northern India, maps the contours of dissent against the Raj and explores the immediate responses to the upheaval in India and outside. Included here are numerous newspaper and magazine accounts in leading English and American papers, chronicles of British and Indian men and women who witnessed the turmoil, intelligence reports and narratives of soldiers, the British administration's responses, the opinions of Karl Marx, Lord Macaulay and Mark Twain, British views on the Rani of Jhansi and Nana Saheb, and Mirza Ghalib's moving narration in his diaries and the historic trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar. With a scholarly and comprehensive introduction, this reader captures the many dimensions of one of the most momentous episodes in the history of the Indian subcontinent.

Besieged

Author :
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184759169
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Besieged written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated by Mahmood Farooqui, with notes on the Mutiny Papers and governance in Delhi 1857 by the translator When Delhi lay under siege for five harrowing months in the summer of 1857, the people of the city described the events as ghadar: a time of turbulence. Resources within the besieged city fell dangerously low and locals found the rebelling sepoys presence and the increased levies insufferable. Nonetheless, an extraordinary effort was launched by the government of Bahadur Shah Zafar to fight the British. Thousands of labourers and tonnes of materials were mobilized, funds were gathered, the police monitored food prices and a functioning bureaucracy was vigilantly maintained right until the walled city s fall. Then, as Delhi was transformed by the victorious British, these everyday sacrifices and the efforts of thousands of people to save their country were lost forever. In this groundbreaking work, Mahmood Farooqui presents the first extensive translations into English of the Mutiny Papers documents dating from Delhi s 1857 siege, originally written in Persian and Shikastah Urdu. The translations include such fascinating pieces as the constitution of the Court of Mutineers, letters from soldiers threatening to leave Delhi if they were not paid their salaries, complaints to the police about unruly soldiers, and reports of troublesome courtesans, spies, faqirs, doctors, volunteers and harassed policemen. Shifting focus away from the conventional understanding of the events of 1857, these translations return ordinary and anonymous men and women back into the history of 1857. Besieged offers a view of how the rebel government of Delhi organized the essential requirements of war food and labour, soldiers salaries, arms and ammunition but more than that, this deeply evocative book reveals the hopes, beliefs and failures of a people who lived through the tragic end of an era.

The Great Uprising

Author : Peter B. Levy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108397239
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Great Uprising written by Peter B. Levy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1963 and 1972 America experienced over 750 urban revolts. Considered collectively, they comprise what Peter Levy terms a 'Great Uprising'. Levy examines these uprisings over the arc of the entire decade, in various cities across America. He challenges both conservative and liberal interpretations, emphasizing that these riots must be placed within historical context to be properly understood. By focusing on three specific cities as case studies - Cambridge and Baltimore, Maryland, and York, Pennsylvania - Levy demonstrates the impact which these uprisings had on millions of ordinary Americans. He shows how conservatives profited politically by constructing a misleading narrative of their causes, and also suggests that the riots did not represent a sharp break or rupture from the civil rights movement. Finally, Levy presents a cautionary tale by challenging us to consider if the conditions that produced this 'Great Uprising' are still predominant in American culture today.

The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141958677
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1998-10-19 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Karlin has selected poetry written and published during the reign of Queen Victoria, (1837-1901). Giving pride of place to Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Christina Rossetti, the volume offers generous selections from other major poets such asArnold, Emily Bronte, Hardy and Hopkins, and makes room for several poem-sequences in their entirety. It is wonderful, too, in its discovery and inclusion of eccentric, dissenting, un-Victorian voices, poets who squarely refuse to 'represent' their period. It also includes the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Meredith, James Thomson and Augusta Webster.

The Great Mutiny

Author : Christopher Hibbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Great Mutiny written by Christopher Hibbert and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Indian Mutiny

Author : Saul David
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Indian Mutiny written by Saul David and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Mutiny of 1857 was the bloodiest insurrection in the history of the British Empire. It began with a large-scale uprising by native troops against their colonial masters, and soon developed into general rebellion as thousands of discontented civilians joined in. It is a tale of brutal murder and heroic resistance from which innocents on both sides could not escape. This work covers the story of the Mutiny. It challenges the accepted wisdom that a British victory was inevitable, showing just how close the mutineers came to dealing a fatal blow to the British Raj.

Penguins!

Author : Anne Schreiber
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426304277
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Penguins! written by Anne Schreiber and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about penguins and how they live.

The Indian Mutiny of 1857

Author : George Bruce Malleson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indian Mutiny of 1857 written by George Bruce Malleson and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar

Author : M. J. Akbar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9354355285
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar written by M. J. Akbar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 1765 Robert Clive, in a letter to Sir Francis Sykes, compared Gomorrah favourably to Calcutta, then capital of British India. He wrote: 'I will pronounce Calcutta to be one of the most wicked places in the Universe.' Drawing upon the letters, memoirs and journals of traders, travellers, bureaucrats, officials, officers and the occasional bishop, Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar is a chronicle of racial relations between Indians and their last foreign invaders, sometimes infuriating but always compelling. A multitude of vignettes, combined with insight and analysis, reveal the deeply ingrained conviction of 'white superiority' that shaped this history. How deep this conviction was is best illustrated by the fact that the British abandoned a large community of their own children because they were born of Indian mothers. The British took pride in being outsiders, even as their exploitative revenue policy turned periodic drought and famine into horrific catastrophes, killing impoverished Indians in millions. There were also marvellous and heart-warming exceptions in this extraordinary panorama, people who transcended racial prejudice and served as a reminder of what might have been had the British made India a second home and merged with its culture instead of treating it as a fortune-hunter's turf. The power was indisputable-the British had lost just one out of 18 wars between 1757 and 1857. Defeated repeatedly on the battlefield, Indians found innovative and amusing ways of giving expression to resentment in household skirmishes, social mores and economic subversion. When Indians tried to imitate the sahibs, they turned into caricatures; when they absorbed the best that the British brought with them, the confluence was positive and productive. But for the most part, subject and ruler lived parallel lives. From the celebrated writer of the bestselling Gandhi's Hinduism: the Struggle Against Jinnah's Islam comes this extensively researched and utterly engrossing book, which is easy to pick up and difficult to put down.

Jane Eyre

Author : Charlotte Brontë
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane Eyre written by Charlotte Brontë and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Imperialism as Diaspora

Author : Ralph Crane
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781385637
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Imperialism as Diaspora written by Ralph Crane and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-31 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperialism as Diaspora reassesses the important years of the British Raj in India and the diasporic position of Anglo-Indians, who, while neither quite British nor Indian, were simultaneously both, and who were instrumental in the construction of the Empire in India.

Penguin Gandhi Reader

Author : Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351184528
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Penguin Gandhi Reader written by Rudrangshu Mukherjee and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was born in Porbander on the western coast of India. His childhood and early upbringing were undistinguished but as an adult he initiated and was involved in a series of novel forms of peaceful protests which established him as one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century and one whose message and relevance transcended national boundaries. This meticulously edited volume culled from the Collected Works of Gandhi contains a representative selection of his writings focusing on themes which were central to Gandhi's philosophy.

The Routledge History of Western Empires

Author : Robert Aldrich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131799986X
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge History of Western Empires written by Robert Aldrich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of Western Empires is an all new volume focusing on the history of Western Empires in a comparative and thematic perspective. Comprising of thirty-three original chapters arranged in eight thematic sections, the book explores European overseas expansion from the Age of Discovery to the Age of Decolonisation. Studies by both well-known historians and new scholars offer fresh, accessible perspectives on a multitude of themes ranging from colonialism in the Arctic to the scramble for the coral sea, from attitudes to the environment in the East Indies to plans for colonial settlement in Australasia. Chapters examine colonial attitudes towards poisonous animals and the history of colonial medicine, evangelisaton in Africa and Oceania, colonial recreation in the tropics and the tragedy of the slave trade. The Routledge History of Western Empires ranges over five centuries and crosses continents and oceans highlighting transnational and cross-cultural links in the imperial world and underscoring connections between colonial history and world history. Through lively and engaging case studies, contributors not only weigh in on historiographical debates on themes such as human rights, religion and empire, and the ‘taproots’ of imperialism, but also illustrate the various approaches to the writing of colonial history. A vital contribution to the field.

Penguins: Birds in Tuxedo Suits

Author : Caitlind L. Alexander
Publisher : Learning Island
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Penguins: Birds in Tuxedo Suits written by Caitlind L. Alexander and published by Learning Island. This book was released on with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penguins are flightless birds that live in the cold Antarctic. How do they survive in such a frozen climate? Do you know: What do penguins eat? How many kinds of penguins are there? Are there penguins who like warm weather? Can any kinds of penguins fly? Find out what a penguin looks like, where it lives, what it eats, what eats it, how babies are born, and other fun facts. All measurements in American and metric, Ages 7 - 10 Reading Level 3.8 LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books are appropriate for hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.

South Asia

Author : Christopher V. Hill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851099263
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book South Asia written by Christopher V. Hill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-03-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a chronological study of South Asia that emphasizes the effect of humans on their environment, and in return the influence of nature on the evolution of human society. Ranging from prehistory to the present and encompassing the whole of South Asia, this volume in ABC-CLIO's Nature and Human Societies series offers the first chronological history of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka from the perspective of the crucial reciprocal relationship between humankind and the environment. South Asia: An Environmental History shows how the civilizations of this geographically diverse region were formed (physically, ethically, and culturally) by their interactions with the environment—a relationship with particularly strong social and spiritual dimensions because of the interdependence of the predominantly agrarian population and the land. Specific topics range from ancient irrigation techniques and peasant adaptation to the environment, to the impact of imperialism on nature, the effect of post-colonial technology on contemporary life, and the enduring influence of religion on the way South Asian societies address ecological issues.

Colonialism and Communalism

Author : M. Christhu Doss
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040019994
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Colonialism and Communalism written by M. Christhu Doss and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christhu Doss examines how the colonial construct of communalism through the fault lines of the supposed religious neutrality, the hunger for the bread of life, the establishment of exclusive village settlements for the proselytes, the rhetoric of Victorian morality, the booby-traps of modernity, and the subversion of Indian cultural heritage resulted in a radical reorientation of religious allegiance that eventually created a perpetual detachment between proselytes and the “others.” Exploring the trajectories of communalism, Doss demonstrates how the multicultural Indian society, known widely for its composite culture, and secular convictions were categorized, compartmentalized, and communalized by the racialized religious pretensions. A vital read for historians, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, and all those who are interested in religions, cultures, identity politics, and decolonization in modern India.

From Your Gods to Our Gods

Author : Marco Ventura
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630875317
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book From Your Gods to Our Gods written by Marco Ventura and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global world debates secularism, freedom of belief, faith-based norms, the state's arbitration of religious conflicts, and the place of the sacred in the public sphere. In facing these issues, Britain, India, and South Africa stand out as unique laboratories. They have greatly influenced the rest of the world. As single countries and together as a whole, the three have moved from the colonial clash of antagonistic religions (of your gods) to an era when it has become impossible to dissociate your god from my god. Today both belong to the same blurred reality of our gods. Through a narrative account of British, South African, and Indian court cases from 1857 to 2009, the author draws an unconventional history of the process leading from the encounter with the gods of the other to the forging of a postmodern, common, and global religion. Across ages, borders, faiths, and laws, the three countries have experienced the ambivalent interaction of society, politics, and beliefs. Hence the lesson the world might learn from them: our gods promise an idealized purity, but they can only become real in the everyday creation of mixed identities, hybrid deities, and shared fears and hopes.