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Book Synopsis The Town and the Raj by : Anil Ganesh Mudbidri
Download or read book The Town and the Raj written by Anil Ganesh Mudbidri and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based On Administrative Manuals, Gazettters, Official Records This Book Examines The Growth Of Dharwad Town And The Vast Changes In Its Demographic, Social And Cultural Characteristics Due To Its Political And Administrative Importance In Its Colonial Setting.
Book Synopsis The British in India by : David Gilmour
Download or read book The British in India written by David Gilmour and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An immersive portrait of the lives of the British in India, from the seventeenth century to Independence Who of the British went to India, and why? We know about Kipling and Forster, Orwell and Scott, but what of the youthful forestry official, the enterprising boxwallah, the fervid missionary? What motivated them to travel halfway around the globe, what lives did they lead when they got there, and what did they think about it all? Full of spirited, illuminating anecdotes drawn from long-forgotten memoirs, correspondence, and government documents, The British in India weaves a rich tapestry of the everyday experiences of the Britons who found themselves in “the jewel in the crown” of the British Empire. David Gilmour captures the substance and texture of their work, home, and social lives, and illustrates how these transformed across the several centuries of British presence and rule in the subcontinent, from the East India Company’s first trading station in 1615 to the twilight of the Raj and Partition and Independence in 1947. He takes us through remote hill stations, bustling coastal ports, opulent palaces, regimented cantonments, and dense jungles, revealing the country as seen through British eyes, and wittily reveling in all the particular concerns and contradictions that were a consequence of that limited perspective. The British in India is a breathtaking accomplishment, a vivid and balanced history written with brio, elegance, and erudition.
Book Synopsis Murree, During the Raj by : Farakh A. Khan
Download or read book Murree, During the Raj written by Farakh A. Khan and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dawning of the Raj by : Jeremy Bernstein
Download or read book Dawning of the Raj written by Jeremy Bernstein and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2000 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warren Hastings, Britain's first governor-elect of India, was in the 18th century the person most responsible for the creation of British rule in India, according to the author. Hastings' eventual and dramatic impeachment forms the conclusion to Bernstein's unusual and powerful narrative. 12 illustrations.
Book Synopsis A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things by : Raj Patel
Download or read book A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things written by Raj Patel and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today's planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other rebellions and uprisings, Patel and Moore demonstrate that throughout history, crises have always prompted fresh strategies to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism. At a time of crisis in all seven cheap things, innovative and systemic thinking is urgently required. This book proposes a radical new way of understanding-and reclaiming-the planet in the turbulent twenty-first century.
Download or read book Raj of the Rani written by Tapti Roy and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They Say In Jhansi That The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Their Town Was Lakshmi Bai&' The 400-Year-Old Town Of Jhansi Still Feels That It Owes Its Fame To A Young Rani Who Ruled For Four-And-A-Half Years. In The Uprising Of 1857 Which Came To Be Known As The First War Of Indian Independence', She Was A Singular Figure In A Gallery Of Heroes. Rani Lakshmi Bai Also Became The Protagonist In A Different Kind Of Story Fiction By British Writers To Dramatize The Horrific Experience Of The Mutiny In Which An Oriental Queen, Full Of Passion, Added A Thrilling Dimension. But Despite An Incredible Career, It Took Eighty Years For Indians To Write A Comprehensive Description Of Rani Lakshmi Bai'S Life. It Was Not Because She Was Forgotten But That People Who Lived In Her Time Did Not Leave Any Writing Behind And The Few Who Knew Her Were Too Afraid Of Reprisals To Profess Links With Her. How Did A Young Marathi Woman Come To Wield So Much Influence In A Strongly Rajput-Dominated Region In The Grip Of An Alien Power? The Life Of The Warrior Queen Has Inspired Historians, Writers And, More Recently, Film-Makers. But For The First Time, In Biographer Tapti Roy'S Vivid Rendition, Lakshmi Bai Is Located Within The Wider Context Of Her Time And Space.
Book Synopsis Women of the Raj by : Margaret MacMillan
Download or read book Women of the Raj written by Margaret MacMillan and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, at the height of colonialism, the British ruled India under a government known as the Raj. British men and women left their homes and traveled to this mysterious, beautiful country–where they attempted to replicate their own society. In this fascinating portrait, Margaret MacMillan examines the hidden lives of the women who supported their husbands’ conquests–and in turn supported the Raj, often behind the scenes and out of the history books. Enduring heartbreaking separations from their families, these women had no choice but to adapt to their strange new home, where they were treated with incredible deference by the natives but found little that was familiar. The women of the Raj learned to cope with the harsh Indian climate and ward off endemic diseases; they were forced to make their own entertainment–through games, balls, and theatrics–and quickly learned to abide by the deeply ingrained Anglo-Indian love of hierarchy. Weaving interviews, letters, and memoirs with a stunning selection of illustrations, MacMillan presents a vivid cultural and social history of the daughters, sisters, mothers, and wives of the men at the center of a daring imperialist experiment–and reveals India in all its richness and vitality. “A marvellous book . . . [Women of the Raj] successfully [re-creates] a vanished world that continues to hold a fascination long after the sun has set on the British empire.” –The Globe and Mail “MacMillan has that essential quality of the historian, a narrative gift.” –The Daily Telegraph “MacMillan is a superb writer who can bring history to life.” –The Philadelphia Inquirer “Well researched and thoroughly enjoyable.” –Evening Standard
Author :Raj Kamal Jha Publisher :Penguin Random House India Private Limited ISBN 13 :9353055075 Total Pages :185 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (53 download)
Book Synopsis The City and the Sea by : Raj Kamal Jha
Download or read book The City and the Sea written by Raj Kamal Jha and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a crumbling neighbourhood in New Delhi, a child waits for a mother to return home from work. And, in parallel, in a snow-swept town in Germany on the Baltic Sea coast a woman, her memory fading, shows up at a deserted hotel. Worlds apart, both embark, in the course of that night, on harrowing journeys through the lost and the missing, the living and the dead, until they meet in an ending that breaks the heart - and holds the promise of putting it back together again. Called the novelist of the newsroom, Raj Kamal Jha cleaves open India's tragedy of violence against women with a powerful story about our complicity in the culture that supports it. This is a book about masculinity - damaging and toxic and yet enduring and entrenched - that begs the question: What kind of men are our boys growing up to be?
Download or read book Raj written by Lawrence James and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-08-12 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the critically acclaimed author of "The Rise and Fall of the British Empire" comes an unapologetic revisionist history of British rule in India. James recounts the twists and turns of imperialism and independence with a wealth of new material. 8-page photo insert.
Book Synopsis Working-Class Raj by : Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson
Download or read book Working-Class Raj written by Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores what happened to working-class men and women when they left Britain and travelled to India after the Rebellion of 1857.
Book Synopsis The Billionaire Raj by : James Crabtree
Download or read book The Billionaire Raj written by James Crabtree and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India’s new billionaire class in a radically unequal society India is the world’s largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China’s. But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly shared, and the country’s top 1% now own nearly 60% of its wealth. In megacities like Mumbai, where half the population live in slums, the extraordinary riches of India’s new dynasties echo the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers of America's Gilded Age, funneling profits from huge conglomerates into lifestyles of conspicuous consumption. James Crabtree’s The Billionaire Raj takes readers on a personal journey to meet these reclusive billionaires, fugitive tycoons, and shadowy political power brokers. From the sky terrace of the world’s most expensive home to impoverished villages and mass political rallies, Crabtree dramatizes the battle between crony capitalists and economic reformers, revealing a tense struggle between equality and privilege playing out against a combustible backdrop of aspiration, class, and caste. The Billionaire Raj is a vivid account of a divided society on the cusp of transformation—and a struggle that will shape not just India’s future, but the world’s.
Book Synopsis The Raj on the Move by : Rajika Bhandari
Download or read book The Raj on the Move written by Rajika Bhandari and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in the 1840s by the peripatetic British, dak bungalows forever changed the way officers of the Empire and their families travelled across the subcontinent and got to know the real India. With most of the British Raj perpetually on the move, whether on tour or during the summer migration to the hills, dak bungalow travel inspired a brotherhood of sorts for generations of British and Indian officers, who could recount tales of horrid dak bungalow food, a crazed khansama, and the time their only companion at the bungalow was a tiger on the loose. Today, too, PWD-run circuit houses and dak bungalows continue to occupy an important place in the lives and imagination of India's civil servants. In The Raj on the Move: Story of the Dak Bungalow, Rajika Bhandari weaves together history, architecture, and travel to take us on a fascinating journey of India's British-era dak bungalows and circuit houses, following, quite literally, in the footsteps of travellers who stayed in these bungalows over the past two centuries. Her search takes her from the early-19th century memoirs and travelogues of British memsahibs, to travelling from the original colonial outpost of Madras in the south to the deep interiors of Madhya Pradesh, the heart of British India. Evoking the stories of Rudyard Kipling and Ruskin Bond, and filled with fascinating tidbits and amusing anecdotes, the book unearths local folklore about these remote and mysterious buildings, from the crotchety khansamas and their delectable chicken dishes to the resident ghosts that still walk the halls at night.
Book Synopsis The British Raj Novels by : P. A. Attar
Download or read book The British Raj Novels written by P. A. Attar and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a brief resum of the major critical responses received by Scott and proves the fact that he still needs a wider critical attention to have a deeper insight of his novels. At the moment, his Raj quartet is the only work that has received extensive critical attention. The generally accepted verdict that the Raj quartet is Scotts greatest achievement is confirmed by the fact that it has aroused considerable interest among critics since its publication. Its position of acknowledged greatness, therefore, certainly demands a reference to various critical responses to it. John Mellors, for instance, considers it important because by evoking the final episode in the long and passionate affaire between British and India, it contains something of all the issues Scott wants to raise: justice, responsibility, political expediency, law and order, sex and race, pride and prejudice, love and loyalty.
Author :Queeny Pradhan Publisher :Penguin Random House India Private Limited ISBN 13 :9354927327 Total Pages :364 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (549 download)
Book Synopsis Ranis And The Raj by : Queeny Pradhan
Download or read book Ranis And The Raj written by Queeny Pradhan and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, history has been telling us the stories of kings. In the long tradition of history writing, his-story has always dominated over her-story. Though queens evoke a sense of romance and their stories are told like fairy tales, it is common enough to find that these stories end in tragedy. In India's history, not all queens are remembered today. Some are celebrated; while others have been almost ignored by historians. In Ranis and the Raj, Queeny Pradhan has selected six queens. All the six queens are fromthe nineteenth century and have faced the British Raj, the East India Company and the Crown. From the Rani of Sirmur, who was the earliest to deal with theBritish authorities, to Rani Chennamma, Rani Jindan, Begum Zeenat Mahal, Rani Lakshmi Bai, to the Sikkim Queen from the 1860s to 1890s, Pradhan has attempted to carve an engrossing historical narrative for each of these important figures in Indian history. Unlike the biographical convention in traditional history writing, theresearch in this book can be placed in the realm of 'microhistory'. The life stories of these queens are fragmented due to the 'silences' and 'invisibilization' in political history of the time, and this book aims to fill these gaps.
Book Synopsis The Making of the Raj by : Ian St. John
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.
Book Synopsis PANCHAYAT RAJ IN INDIA: REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN by : Dr. Vaibhav Uniyal
Download or read book PANCHAYAT RAJ IN INDIA: REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN written by Dr. Vaibhav Uniyal and published by Ashok Yakkaldevi. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Vaibhav Uniyal, LL.M., PhD. (Law) Assistant Professor, Law College Dehradun, Uttaranchal University Dr. Vaibhav Uniyal, LL.M., PhD. (Law) is Assistant Professor at Law College Dehradun, Uttaranchal University. Dr. Vaibhav Uniyal received his elementary education in Riverdale High School, Dehradun and completed his secondary education from Marshall School, Dehradun. Post-secondary education, he completed his BSC form Graphic Era University Dehradun and LL.B. and LL.M. both from Law College Dehradun (HNB Garhwal University and Uttaranchal University) respectively. He accomplished his Ph.D. from Uttaranchal University under the supervision of Prof. Rajesh Bahuguna on the topic ‘Panchayat Raj in India: A Study in The Light of The Constitution (seventy third amendment) Act, 1992 with special reference to The State of Uttarakhand.’ He specializes in Constitutional Law and Administrative Law. With 12 research papers published in National and International journals, he has been working as an Assistant Professor at Law College Dehradun, Uttaranchal University Dehradun. Prof. Rajesh Bahuguna, LL.M., NET, PhD. (Law) Dean, Law College Dehradun & Pro Vice Chancellor, Uttaranchal University Prof. Rajesh Bahuguna, LL.M., NET, PhD. (Law) is Dean at Law College Dehradun & Pro Vice Chancellor, Uttaranchal University. Dr. Rajesh Bahuguna did his LL.B. and LL.M. both from Jai Narayan Vyas Jodhpur University. He accomplished his Ph.D. from Kurukshetra University on the topic ‘Alternative Dispute Resolution system in India.’ He specializes in Constitutional Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution. He has more than 42 years of working experience which include 15 years service in prestigious Indian Air Force and the residue is his teaching, research as well as administrative experience. He is one of the founder faculty members of Law College Dehradun, established on 1st August, 2002. He took over the position of Principal on 1st August, 2005. He is also the Chief Editor of Dehradun Law Review and LCD Newsletter. A renowned face in legal academia of the state, he is a Member of more less than 14 top ranked institutions related to Law. Prof. (Dr.) Rajesh Bahuguna is a recipient of numerous Awards and Appreciations, most noteworthy being, from His Excellency Governor of Uttarakhand. He has supervised 8 PhD students. With more than 20 National and International publications to his name Dr. Rajesh Bahuguna has also successfully completed a project of MNRE.
Book Synopsis A People's Collector in the British Raj by : Brian Stoddart
Download or read book A People's Collector in the British Raj written by Brian Stoddart and published by Readworthy. This book was released on 2011 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
