Observations on the State of Society Among the Asiatic Subjects of Great Britain, Particularly with Respect to Morals, and on the Means of Improving it

Observations on the State of Society Among the Asiatic Subjects of Great Britain, Particularly with Respect to Morals, and on the Means of Improving it
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Synopsis Observations on the State of Society Among the Asiatic Subjects of Great Britain, Particularly with Respect to Morals, and on the Means of Improving it by : Christian Frederick Swartz

Observations on the State of Society Among the Asiatic Subjects to Great Britain, Particularly with Respect to Morals, and on the Means of Improving it

Observations on the State of Society Among the Asiatic Subjects to Great Britain, Particularly with Respect to Morals, and on the Means of Improving it
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Total Pages : 260
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Synopsis Observations on the State of Society Among the Asiatic Subjects to Great Britain, Particularly with Respect to Morals, and on the Means of Improving it by : Charles Grant

This essay became a much publicized plea for the toleration of Christian educational and missionary activities in India. Being presented to the East India Company's Court of Directors on August 16, 1797 by Charles Grant, and to the House of Commons in 1813, the Commons ordered its general printing in 1813.

Language Policy and Education in India

Language Policy and Education in India
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 270
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ISBN-10 : 9781134878246
ISBN-13 : 1134878249
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Synopsis Language Policy and Education in India by : M. Sridhar

This book presents a history of English and development of language education in modern India. It explores the role of language in colonial attempts to establish hegemony, the play of power, and the anxieties in the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century India. The essays in the volume discuss language policy, debates and pedagogy as well as larger overarching questions such as identity, nationhood and sub-nationhood. The work also looks at the socio-cultural and economic factors that shaped the writing and publishing of textbooks, dictionaries and determined the direction of language teaching, specifically, of English language teaching. Drawing on a variety of archival sources — policy documents, books, periodicals — this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of linguistics, language teaching, cultural studies and modern Indian history.

Welsh missionaries and British imperialism

Welsh missionaries and British imperialism
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9781526118752
ISBN-13 : 1526118750
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Synopsis Welsh missionaries and British imperialism by : Andrew May

In 1841, the Welsh sent their first missionary, Thomas Jones, to evangelise the tribal peoples of the Khasi Hills of north-east India. This book follows Jones from rural Wales to Cherrapunji, the wettest place on earth and now one of the most Christianised parts of India. As colonised colonisers, the Welsh were to have a profound impact on the culture and beliefs of the Khasis. The book also foregrounds broader political, scientific, racial and military ideologies that mobilised the Khasi Hills into an interconnected network of imperial control. Its themes are universal: crises of authority, the loneliness of geographical isolation, sexual scandal, greed and exploitation, personal and institutional dogma, individual and group morality. Written by a direct descendant of Thomas Jones, it makes a significant contribution in orienting the scholarship of imperialism to a much-neglected corner of India, and will appeal to students of the British imperial experience more broadly.

The History of British India

The History of British India
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Total Pages : 688
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Synopsis The History of British India by : James Mill

Finding Jesus in Dharma

Finding Jesus in Dharma
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Publisher : ISPCK
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 8172145489
ISBN-13 : 9788172145484
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Synopsis Finding Jesus in Dharma by : Chaturvedi Badrinath

Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830

Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9780230306004
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Synopsis Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830 by : A. Rudd

India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain.

Indigenous Enlightenment

Indigenous Enlightenment
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 466
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ISBN-10 : 9781496237965
ISBN-13 : 149623796X
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Synopsis Indigenous Enlightenment by : Stuart D. McKee

Structure and Change in Indian Society

Structure and Change in Indian Society
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 866
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ISBN-10 : 9781351487801
ISBN-13 : 1351487809
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Synopsis Structure and Change in Indian Society by : Bernard S. Cohn

Recent theoretical and methodological innovations in the anthropological analysis of South Asian societies have introduced distinctive modifications in the study of Indian social structure and social change. This book, reporting on twenty empirical studies of Indian society conducted by outstanding scholars, reflects these trends not only with reference to Indian society itself, but also in terms of the relevance of such trends to an understanding of social change more generally.The contributors demonstrate the adaptive changes experienced by the studied groups in particular villages, towns, cities, and regions. The authors view the basic social units of joint family, caste, and village not as structural isolates, but as intimately connected with one another and with other social units through social and cultural networks of various kinds that incorporate the social units into the complex structure of Indian civilization. Within this broadened conception of social structure, these studies trace the changing relations of politics, economics, law, and language to the caste system.Showing that the caste system is dynamic, with upward and downward mobility characterizing it from pre-British times to the present, the studies suggest that the modernizing forces which entered the system since independence--parliamentary democracy, universal suffrage, land reforms, modern education, urbanization, and industrial technology--provided new opportunities and paths to upward mobility, but did not radically alter the system. The chapters in this book show that the study of Indian society reveals novel forms of social structure change. They introduce methods and theories that may well encourage social scientists to extend the study of change in Indian society to the study of change in other areas.

Selections from Educational Records

Selections from Educational Records
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Total Pages : 254
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Synopsis Selections from Educational Records by : India. Department of Education (1947-1949)