A familiar history of British India
Author | : Joachim Hayward Stocqueler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : India |
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Author | : Joachim Hayward Stocqueler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : India |
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Author | : J.H. Stocqueler |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1845 |
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Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2020-03-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780371667705 |
Author | : Joachim Hayward Stocqueler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1859 |
Genre | : India |
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Author | : James Mill |
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Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : Hindus |
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Author | : David Gilmour |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 641 |
Release | : 2018-11-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0374116857 |
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.
Author | : Thomas R. Trautmann |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2023-07-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520917928 |
"Aryan," a word that today evokes images of racial hatred and atrocity, was first used by Europeans to suggest bonds of kinship, as Thomas Trautmann shows in his far-reaching history of British Orientalism and the ethnology of India. When the historical relationship uniting Sanskrit with the languages of Europe was discovered, it seemed clear that Indians and Britons belonged to the same family. Thus the Indo-European or Aryan idea, based on the principle of linguistic kinship, dominated British ethnological inquiry. In the nineteenth century, however, an emergent biological "race science" attacked the authority of the Orientalists. The spectacle of a dark-skinned people who were evidently civilized challenged Victorian ideas, and race science responded to the enigma of India by redefining the Aryan concept in narrowly "white" racial terms. By the end of the nineteenth century, race science and Orientalism reached a deep and lasting consensus in regard to India, which Trautmann calls "the racial theory of Indian civilization," and which he undermines with his powerful analysis of colonial ethnology in India. His work of reassessing British Orientalism and the Aryan idea will be of great interest to historians, anthropologists, and cultural critics.
Author | : James Mill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 1817 |
Genre | : Hindus |
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Author | : C. Brad Faught |
Publisher | : Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2013-01-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1612341683 |
Robert Clive (1725–1774), later Baron Clive of Plassey, is widely considered the founder of British India. He arrived in Madras as a clerk for the East India Company in 1744. Through timely promotion and a clear affinity for military leadership, he proceeded to consolidate the company's commercial and territorial position in South India before doing the same in the northeast in Bengal. In 1757 company troops under his command defeated the Nawab of Bengal at the Battle of Plassey. This victory set in motion the East India Company's ascendancy over much of India and eventual development into the world's largest transnational trading company at the time. This paved the way for the 1857 creation of the British Raj, which would last for another ninety years. Clive is a fascinating and important historical figure: a lowly company employee who rose to great heights; an informally trained military commander who led company and local Indian troops to a series of stirring victories over local rivals who were supported by the French; a grasping politician who used his great wealth to secure a prominent social position; and, finally, a hounded society notable who, plagued by illness, allegedly took his own life. No one in the early days of the British ventures in India was as well known or as controversial as Clive. Today, when empire and globalism are witnessed and talked about with ease, Clive's position as both a servant of the East India Company and an agent of imperialism makes him a surprisingly resonant figure.
Author | : James Mill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : Hindus |
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