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Author | : Harriet Claiborne |
Publisher | : WestBow Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2023-10-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Twenty-four-year-old Harry Witt did the unthinkable in 1937 when he left his family and sweetheart, Idie Lacy, in Houston, Texas, to take a job halfway around the world in British Colonial India. Adventurous tales of tiger hunts, rickety train rides, and a birthday with a maharajah mix with humorous anecdotes of rural village life and brokering cotton to fill Harry’s letters home, giving Idie a unique glimpse of life in a strange land with a Texas twist. Then Idie also did the unthinkable in 1939, taking a month-long sea voyage to marry Harry in Bombay. Their stories speak of learning to cope with each other and with life in a foreign culture and a faraway place. Idie was subsequently evacuated from India during World War II, while Harry stayed, working on a mission for his company and his country. His business contacts with Hindu, Muslim and English merchants helped him procure strategic materials for the Allies. Along the way, he interacted with everyone from peasants to maharajas and trekked into Nepal with a colleague, the first white men to do so.
Author | : Mahadevrao Malhararao Inamdar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Postal service |
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Handstruck stamp from Bombay presidency, pre-adhesive, British colony, India, stamps.
Author | : Bombay (India). General Post Office |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1841 |
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Download Leaflets Illustrating the Postal Routes Connecting the Bombay General Post Office with Other Post Offices in India, and an Alphabetical List of These Post Offices. Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Prashant Kidambi |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 135188624X |
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This book explores the social history of colonial Bombay in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, a pivotal time in its emergence as a modern metropolis. Drawing together strands that hitherto have been treated in a piecemeal fashion and based on a variety of archival sources, the book offers a systematic analytical account of historical change in a premier colonial city. In particular, it considers the ways in which the turbulent changes unleashed by European modernity were negotiated, appropriated or resisted by the colonised in one of the major cities of the Indian Ocean region. A series of crises in the 1890s triggered far-reaching changes in the relationship between state and society in Bombay. The city’s colonial rulers responded to the upheavals of this decade by adopting a more interventionist approach to urban governance. The book shows how these new strategies and mechanisms of rule ensnared colonial authorities in contradictions that they were unable to resolve easily and rendered their relationship with local society increasingly fractious. The study also explores important developments within an emergent Indian civil society. It charts the density and diversity of the city’s expanding associational culture and shows how educated Indians embraced a new ethic of ’social service’ that sought to ’improve’ and ’uplift’ the urban poor. In conclusion, the book reflects on the historical legacy of these developments for urban society and politics in postcolonial Bombay. This wide-ranging work will be essential reading for specialists in British imperial history, postcolonial studies and urban social history. It will also be of interest to all those concerned with the comparative history of governance and public culture in the modern city.
Author | : Stephen Meredyth Edwardes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Mumbai (India) |
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Author | : Sir George Forrest |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Bombay (India : State) |
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Download Selections from the Letters, Despatches, and Other State Papers Preserved in the Bombay Secretariat Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Bombay. Superintendent of Mortuary and Birth Returns |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1862 |
Genre | : Bombay |
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Author | : S. M. Edwardes |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2024-05-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3387336292 |
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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
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Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : Bombay (India) |
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Download Life in Bombay, and the Neighbouring Out-stations Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Bombay (India) |
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