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Author |
: Anand A. Yang |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 2023-04-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520329607 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520329600 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Limited Raj by : Anand A. Yang
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
Author |
: Lawrence James |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 768 |
Release |
: 2000-08-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0312263821 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780312263829 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Raj by : Lawrence James
From the critically acclaimed author of "The Rise and Fall of the British Empire" comes an unapologetic revisionist history of British rule in India. James recounts the twists and turns of imperialism and independence with a wealth of new material. 8-page photo insert.
Author |
: Chandak Sengoopta |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0330491407 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780330491402 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imprint of the Raj by : Chandak Sengoopta
A fascinating account of the invention of fingerprinting in colonial India and the story of how the technique was exported back to Victorian England. Opening with the first case in a British criminal court to use the radical new technique of fingerprinting to identify the perpetrators of crime in 1902 this riveting book takes us back to the origins of fingerprinting in India. Despite many books on the subject of fingerprints in general, none have looked closely at the fact that this standard tool of forensic science was born in India during the Raj. As the author points out, with the exception of curry there is not one other instance of something so fundamental to British life being imported fully-formed from the Empire and then being tailored to fit conditions at home. Based on original and hitherto unpublished research imprint of the Raj gives a unique insight into our colonial past and offers a vivid account of this extraordinary and largely ignored story.
Author |
: Jeremy Bernstein |
Publisher |
: Ivan R. Dee Publisher |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015048565108 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dawning of the Raj by : Jeremy Bernstein
Warren Hastings, Britain's first governor-elect of India, was in the 18th century the person most responsible for the creation of British rule in India, according to the author. Hastings' eventual and dramatic impeachment forms the conclusion to Bernstein's unusual and powerful narrative. 12 illustrations.
Author |
: Vithal Rajan |
Publisher |
: Random House India |
Total Pages |
: 191 |
Release |
: 2011-12-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9788184002508 |
ISBN-13 |
: 8184002505 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Holmes of the Raj by : Vithal Rajan
It is 1888. As Central Asia reels under the intrigues of the Great Game, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson sail to India on a secret mission in the service of Empire. The accountant of a Hindu monastery has been brutally murdered, and the head priest is the prime suspect. But as both detective and doctor soon discover, their Indian autumn has only just begun. They are plunged into a series of adventures that take them from Madras and Pondicherry to the princely courts of Hyderabad, the uncharted jungles of the Central Provinces, pine-scented Nainital, and the bustling metropolis of Calcutta. Even as Holmes unravels sinister plots, Watson busies himself helping Ronald Ross track the malaria parasite and advising a schoolboy called Dhyan Chand on the finer points of hockey. The six stories in Holmes of the Raj are delightful vignettes of life and politics in colonial India. Vithal Rajan breathes life into historical characters, as Holmes and Watson meet Lord Ripon, Madame Blavatsky, Francis Younghusband, Kipling and Kim himself, Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Ramanujan, Motilal Nehru, Tagore, Jinnah, and many, many others. Sprightly, colourful, and remarkably faithful to Conan Doyle, this is an unforgettable collection.
Author |
: Jules Stewart |
Publisher |
: The History Press |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2006-04-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780752495866 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0752495860 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Spying for the Raj by : Jules Stewart
In the 1860s, Captain Thomas Montgomerie trained natives to be surveyors, and had them explore the region covertly. These men, known as pundits, were disguised as lamas (holy men). This book talks about these servants of the Raj who managed to map the Himalayas and Tibet, helping the British to consolidate their rule in the Indian sub-continent.
Author |
: HELEN RENAUX |
Publisher |
: Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 207 |
Release |
: 2011-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781466901773 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1466901772 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis TRUE CHILDREN of the Raj by : HELEN RENAUX
This is an epistolary manuscript; each chapter a letter addressed to the author's grandchildren about their Indian heritage and other matters. It deals with ancestry, history of India, geography of India. It deals with the colonisation of India by the British and explains how this mixed race of people came about. It is a family history and contains the author's philosophical ideas that have developed through life and experience. It is a book of information and enlightenment for the author's young family and hopefully others in similar situations; a book for the young mixed blood generation of today and hopefully for others that may follow.
Author |
: Byron Farwell |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 404 |
Release |
: 1989 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0393308022 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780393308020 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Armies of the Raj by : Byron Farwell
With a profusion of anecdotes conveying the character of India under British rule. Farwell offers a panoramic survey of the Indian army during the 90 years between the Sepoy Revolt and the births of independent India and Pakistan ...
Author |
: Margaret MacMillan |
Publisher |
: Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages |
: 394 |
Release |
: 2007-10-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812976397 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812976398 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women of the Raj by : Margaret MacMillan
In the nineteenth century, at the height of colonialism, the British ruled India under a government known as the Raj. British men and women left their homes and traveled to this mysterious, beautiful country–where they attempted to replicate their own society. In this fascinating portrait, Margaret MacMillan examines the hidden lives of the women who supported their husbands’ conquests–and in turn supported the Raj, often behind the scenes and out of the history books. Enduring heartbreaking separations from their families, these women had no choice but to adapt to their strange new home, where they were treated with incredible deference by the natives but found little that was familiar. The women of the Raj learned to cope with the harsh Indian climate and ward off endemic diseases; they were forced to make their own entertainment–through games, balls, and theatrics–and quickly learned to abide by the deeply ingrained Anglo-Indian love of hierarchy. Weaving interviews, letters, and memoirs with a stunning selection of illustrations, MacMillan presents a vivid cultural and social history of the daughters, sisters, mothers, and wives of the men at the center of a daring imperialist experiment–and reveals India in all its richness and vitality. “A marvellous book . . . [Women of the Raj] successfully [re-creates] a vanished world that continues to hold a fascination long after the sun has set on the British empire.” –The Globe and Mail “MacMillan has that essential quality of the historian, a narrative gift.” –The Daily Telegraph “MacMillan is a superb writer who can bring history to life.” –The Philadelphia Inquirer “Well researched and thoroughly enjoyable.” –Evening Standard
Author |
: David Gilmour |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 641 |
Release |
: 2018-11-13 |
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.