The Frontier in British India

The Frontier in British India
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 315
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ISBN-10 : 9781108840194
ISBN-13 : 1108840191
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis The Frontier in British India by : Thomas Simpson

An innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power and knowledge developed at the territorial fringes of British India. Thomas Simpson considers the role of frontier officials as surveyors, cartographers and ethnographers, military violence in frontier regions and the impact of the frontier experience on colonial administration.

The Frontier Complex

The Frontier Complex
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 303
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ISBN-10 : 9781108840590
ISBN-13 : 1108840590
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis The Frontier Complex by : Kyle J. Gardner

Reveals how British imperial border-making in the Himalayas transformed a crossroads into a borderland and geography into politics.

Khyber, British India's North West Frontier

Khyber, British India's North West Frontier
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Total Pages : 448
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015008510086
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Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Khyber, British India's North West Frontier by : Charles Miller

The Author Takes The Rader With Him From The First Tentative Approach By The British, Their Embroilment With Pathans And Afridis. Upto The Present When Kabul And Peshwar Seem To Entice The Adventurous Tourists.

Our Scientific Frontier

Our Scientific Frontier
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Total Pages : 116
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ISBN-10 : BSB:BSB11613019
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Synopsis Our Scientific Frontier by : Sir William Patrick Andrew

The "scientific frontier" is a term used by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield) of Great Britain in 1878 to denote a border between British India (in present-day Pakistan) and Afghanistan, which could be occupied and defended according to the requirements of the science of military strategy, as opposed to the existing frontier, which had been formed by a haphazard pattern of British expansion through agreements and annexations. The term subsequently figured prominently in British discussions about the defense of British India from a possible Russian invasion through Afghanistan. Our Scientific Frontier, published toward the end of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80), is an analysis of this subject, written to influence the British debate on the terms of peace. The author, William Patrick Andrew, was chairman of the Scinde, Punjab, and Delhi Railway Company, and thus an expert on logistics and transport in India and along its frontiers. The book contains chapters on the Northwest Frontier, the history, geography, and economy of Afghanistan, the independent border tribes, mountain passes, probable routes of invasion from Afghanistan into India, and the "Powindahs, or Soldier-Merchants of Afghanistan." Three appendices cover the Sherpur entrenchments that were part of the defense of Kabul, the Bolan and Khyber railways (neither of which was constructed until after the period discussed), and transport by rail of troops, horses, guns, and war matériel in India.

Tibet and the British Raj

Tibet and the British Raj
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 0700706275
ISBN-13 : 9780700706273
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Tibet and the British Raj by : Alex McKay

This text explores the diplomatic representatives of the Raj in Tibet. Besides being scholars, spies and empire-builders, they also influenced events in Tibet but as well as shaping our modern understanding of that land.

Indo-Burma Frontier and the Making of the Chin Hills

Indo-Burma Frontier and the Making of the Chin Hills
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 245
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ISBN-10 : 9781000507454
ISBN-13 : 1000507459
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Indo-Burma Frontier and the Making of the Chin Hills by : Pum Khan Pau

This book examines the British colonial expansion in the so-called unadministered hill tracts of the Indo-Burma frontier and the change of colonial policy from non-intervention to intervention. The book begins with the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–26), which resulted in the British annexation of the North-Eastern Frontier of Bengal and the extension of its sway over the Arakan and Manipur frontiers, and closes with the separation of Burma from India in 1937. The volume documents the resistance of the indigenous hill peoples to colonial penetration; administrative policies such as disarmament; subjugation of the local chiefs under a colonial legal framework and its impact; standardisation of ‘Chin’ as an ethnic category for the fragmented tribes and sub-tribes; and the creation and consolidation of the Chin Hills District as a political entity to provide an extensive account of British relations with the indigenous Chin/Zo community from 1824 to 1935. By situating these within the larger context of British imperial policy, the book makes a critical analysis of the British approach towards the Indo-Burma frontier. With its coverage of key archival sources and literature, this book will interest scholars and researchers in modern Indian history, military history, colonial history, British history, South Asian history and Southeast Asian history.

Ruling the Savage Periphery

Ruling the Savage Periphery
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780674980709
ISBN-13 : 0674980700
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Ruling the Savage Periphery by : Benjamin D. Hopkins

A provocative case that “failed states” along the periphery of today’s international system are the intended result of nineteenth-century colonial design. From the Afghan frontier with British India to the pampas of Argentina to the deserts of Arizona, nineteenth-century empires drew borders with an eye toward placing indigenous people just on the edge of the interior. They were too nomadic and communal to incorporate in the state, yet their labor was too valuable to displace entirely. Benjamin Hopkins argues that empires sought to keep the “savage” just close enough to take advantage of, with lasting ramifications for the global nation-state order. Hopkins theorizes and explores frontier governmentality, a distinctive kind of administrative rule that spread from empire to empire. Colonial powers did not just create ad hoc methods or alight independently on similar techniques of domination: they learned from each other. Although the indigenous peoples inhabiting newly conquered and demarcated spaces were subjugated in a variety of ways, Ruling the Savage Periphery isolates continuities across regimes and locates the patterns of transmission that made frontier governmentality a world-spanning phenomenon. Today, the supposedly failed states along the margins of the international system—states riven by terrorism and violence—are not dysfunctional anomalies. Rather, they work as imperial statecraft intended, harboring the outsiders whom stable states simultaneously encapsulate and exploit. “Civilization” continues to deny responsibility for border dwellers while keeping them close enough to work, buy goods across state lines, and justify national-security agendas. The present global order is thus the tragic legacy of a colonial design, sustaining frontier governmentality and its objectives for a new age.

The British in India

The British in India
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 641
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ISBN-10 : 9780374116859
ISBN-13 : 0374116857
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis The British in India by : David Gilmour

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.

From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy

From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 409
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ISBN-10 : 9780804785389
ISBN-13 : 0804785384
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy by : Matthew Mosca

Between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, Qing rulers, officials, and scholars fused diverse, fragmented perceptions of foreign territory into one integrated worldview. In the same period, a single "foreign" policy emerged as an alternative to the many localized "frontier" policies hitherto pursued on the coast, in Xinjiang, and in Tibet. By unraveling Chinese, Manchu, and British sources to reveal the information networks used by the Qing empire to gather intelligence about its emerging rival, British India, this book explores China's altered understanding of its place in a global context. Far from being hobbled by a Sinocentric worldview, Qing China's officials and scholars paid close attention to foreign affairs. To meet the growing British threat, they adapted institutional practices and geopolitical assumptions to coordinate a response across their maritime and inland borderlands. In time, the new and more active response to Western imperialism built on this foundation reshaped not only China's diplomacy but also the internal relationship between Beijing and its frontiers.