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Author : Michael O'Dwyer
Publisher : Mittal Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book India as I Knew it written by Michael O'Dwyer and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Hamilton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019909361X
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Feringhees written by Elizabeth Hamilton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stiff upper lip, steely eyes and a cold heart is often how the English imperialist is pictured in popular imagination. Drawing from memoirs, commentaries and family letters, Elizabeth Hamilton brings forth an alternative portrayal of her ancestors, Sir Robert Hamilton and Sir William Barton. Their careers in India are set against the momentous events of their times to present a different side of the colonialists of a quiet people, dedicated to the tradition of upholding the law and avoiding conflict. Volume I, The Proud Empire, traces the life of Sir Robert Hamilton, from the beginning of his career under the watchful eye of his father, up until his retirement. Occupying multiple roles such as the Resident of Indore and Agent to the Governor General in the Central Provinces, he is seen interacting with various prominent Indian figures such as the Rani of Jhansi, Tantya Tope and Nana Sahib. The picture of the arrogant imperialist fades away to be replaced by that of someone keen to make a difference to the society he was working in, who encourages good governance, mends ties in the midst of escalating tensions and must recover cities occupied by insurgents, all the while shadowed by the burden of great personal losses. Volume II, The Straight Race, tracks Sir William Barton’s career in the early twentieth century. Starting in the Punjab and the North-West Frontier, he later served as Resident in the well-administered states of Mysore and Hyderabad, where he stood up to the Nizam, doing his best to set the administration on a less corrupt footing. Retirement did not deter Sir William’s close interest in Indian affairs; he returned twice on tour as an advisor to electrical companies and travelled with a Ministry of Supply mission during the Second World War. With three books and many articles for newspapers and journals on the subject, India remained an integral part of his life.
Author : Mary Lago
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826263313
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book India's Prisoner written by Mary Lago and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward John Thompson -- novelist, poet, journalist, and historian of India -- was a liberal advocate for Indian culture and political self-determination at a time when Indian affairs were of little general interest in England. As a friend of Nehru, Gandhi, and other Congress Party leaders, Thompson had contacts that many English officials did not have and did not know how to get. Thus, he was an excellent channel for interpreting India to England and England to India.
Author : Nick Lloyd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857730770
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The Amritsar Massacre written by Nick Lloyd and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 13 April 1919, a fateful event took place which was to define the last decades of the British Raj in India. At 5:10pm on that day, Brigadier-General 'Rex' Dyer led a small party of soldiers through the centre of Amritsar into a walled garden known as the Jallianwala Bagh. He had been informed that an illegal political meeting was taking place and had come to disperse it. On entering the garden, Dyer's men immediately lined up in formation. Dyer then gave the order to open fire on the huge crowd that had gathered there. 379 people were killed and at least 1,000 more were wounded in what has became known as the Amritsar Massacre. Nick Lloyd here provides a highly readable, but detailed account of the most infamous British atrocity in the entire history of the Raj. He considers the massacre in its historical context, but also describes its impact in uniting the people of the sub-continent against their colonial rulers. The book dispels common myths and misconceptions surrounding the massacre and offers a new explanation of the decisions taken in 1919. Ultimately, it seeks to examine whether the massacre was an unfortunate and tragic mistake or a case of cold-blooded murder, and one which would fatally weaken the British position in India.
Author : Alan Jeffreys
Publisher : Helion and Company
ISBN 13 : 1804516139
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Indian Army in the First World War written by Alan Jeffreys and published by Helion and Company. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book addresses the important global role of the Indian Army during the First World War. It is an academic reassessment of the army by both established and early career scholars of the Indian Army, as well as naval historians. It looks at the historiography of the army - taking into account the recent work on the army (particularly on the Western Front in 1914-1915). The edited volume covers the traditional areas of the Indian Army on the Western Front, in Palestine, Mesopotamia and the defence of the Suez Canal; however, there are also chapters on combined operations; Indian prisoners of war in Germany and Turkey; the expansion of the officer corps; and the Sikh experience, as well as the mobilisation of the equine army at the beginning of the war and the demobilisation of the army in the period from 1918 until 1923. Three additional chapters are related to the theme, such as the role of the Royal Indian Marine; the Territorial Army in India; and Churchill’s portrayal of the Indian Army during the Gallipoli campaign in his account The World Crisis.
Author : Mark Condos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108667651
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Insecurity State written by Mark Condos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative new work, Mark Condos explores the 'dark underside' of the ideologies that sustained British rule in India. Using Punjab as a case study, he argues that India's colonial overlords were obsessively fearful, and plagued by an unreasoning belief in their own vulnerability as rulers. These enduring anxieties precipitated, and justified, an all too frequent recourse to violence, joined with an insistence on untrammelled power placed in the hands of the executive. Examining how the British colonial experience was shaped by a chronic sense of unease, anxiety, and insecurity, this is a timely intervention in debates about the contested project of colonial state-building, the oppressive and violent practices of colonial rule, the nature of imperial sovereignty, law, and policing and the postcolonial legacies of empire.
Author : M. Epstein
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230270565
Total Pages : 1548 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Statesman's Year-Book written by M. Epstein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 1548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1782 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Statesman's Year-book written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Tait Jarboe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857727028
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book War News in India written by Andrew Tait Jarboe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Punjab region of India sent more than 600,000 combatants to assist the British war effort during World War I. Their families back home, thousands of miles from the major scenes of battle, were desperate for war news, and newspapers provided daily reports to keep the local population up-to-date with developments on the Western Front. This book presents the first English-language translations of hundreds of articles published during World War I in the newsapers of the Punjab region. They offer a lens into the anxieties and aspirations of Punjabis, a population that committed resources, food, labour as well as combatants to the British war effort. Amidst a steadily growing field of studies on World War I that examine the effects of the war on colonial populations, War News in India makes a unique and timely contribution.
Author : John Scott-Keltie
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230270557
Total Pages : 1521 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Statesman's Year-Book written by John Scott-Keltie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 1521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Author : Royal Commonwealth Society. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Select List of Recent Publications Contained in the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute Illustrating the Constitutional Relations Between the Various Parts of the British Empire written by Royal Commonwealth Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bibliographies written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Commonwealth Society. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Bibliographies written by Royal Commonwealth Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Luzac's Oriental List and Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph McQuade
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197768288
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (977 download)
Download or read book Fugitive of Empire written by Joseph McQuade and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1912, Rash Behari Bose made his dramatic entrance into India's anti-colonial freedom movement when he orchestrated a bomb attack against the British Viceroy during a public procession in Delhi. Forced to flee his homeland, Bose settled in Japan, becoming the most influential Indian in Tokyo and earning the affectionate title 'Sensei' among Japanese youth, military personnel and far-right ultranationalists. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Bose remained a perpetual thorn in the side of the British Empire as he built and maintained a global network of anti-colonialists, radicals, smugglers and intellectuals. After siding with Imperial Japan against his British adversaries during the Second World War, Bose died in 1945--just two years before India gained its independence. A complex, controversial and often contradictory figure, Bose has been described as a committed democrat, an authoritarian, an advocate of religious harmony, a Hindu chauvinist, an anti-Communist, a political pragmatist, an idealist, a Japanese collaborator, an anti-racist, a cultural conservative, a Pan-Asianist, an Indian nationalist, and much more besides. Drawing on extensive archival research in India, Japan and the UK, this refreshing new biography brings to life the largely forgotten story of one of twentieth-century Asia's most daring revolutionaries.
Author : William Edward Sladen Holland
Publisher : London : Edinburgh House Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Indian Outlook written by William Edward Sladen Holland and published by London : Edinburgh House Press. This book was released on 1927 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Copland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521894364
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (943 download)
Download or read book The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917-1947 written by Ian Copland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of the role played by the Indian princes in the devolution of British colonial power.
