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Author : KNIGHT
Release : 2013-12-01
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Book Synopsis Britain in India, 1858-1947 by : KNIGHT
Download or read book Britain in India, 1858-1947 written by KNIGHT. This book was released on 2013-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert W. Stern
Release : 2003-02-26
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Changing India by : Robert W. Stern
Download or read book Changing India written by Robert W. Stern. This book was released on 2003-02-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised edition of Robert Stern's book brings India's story up to date. Since its original publication in 1993, much has altered and yet central to the author's argument remains his belief in the remarkable continuity and vitality of India's social systems and its resilience in the face of change. This is a colourful, readable and comprehensive introduction to modern India. In a journey through its family households and villages, the author explains its long-lived and little understood caste and class systems, its venerable faiths and extraordinary ethnic diversity, its history as 'the jewel in the crown' of British imperialism and its post-Independence career as a major agricultural and industrial nation. While paradoxes abound in an India which is constantly transforming, Stern demonstrates how and why it remains the largest and most enduring democracy in the developing world.
Author : Byron Farwell
Release : 1989
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Armies of the Raj by : Byron Farwell
Download or read book Armies of the Raj written by Byron Farwell. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Release : 2018-10-18
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Archiving the British Raj by : Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Download or read book Archiving the British Raj written by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya. This book was released on 2018-10-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The archives are generally sites where historians conduct research into our past. Seldom are they objects of research. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya traces the path that led to the creation of a central archive in India, from the setting up of the Imperial Record Department, the precursor of the National Archives of India, and the Indian Historical Records Commission, to the framing of archival policies and the change in those policies over the years. In the last two decades of colonial rule in India, there were anticipations of freedom in many areas of the public sphere. These were felt in the domain of archiving as well, chiefly in the form of reversal of earlier policies. From this perspective, Bhattacharya explores the relation between knowledge and power and discusses how the World Wars and the decline of Britain, among other factors, effected a transition from a Eurocentric and disparaging approach to India towards a more liberal and less ethnocentric one.
Author : Lionel Knight
Release : 2012-11-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Britain in India, 18581947 by : Lionel Knight
Download or read book Britain in India, 18581947 written by Lionel Knight. This book was released on 2012-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Britain in India, 1858–1947’ seeks to trace the last 90 years of British rule in the light of modern historical debates. The volume examines the ambiguities of British rule that followed from the post-Mutiny settlement: the tensions between an authoritarian bureaucracy and the promise of a liberal vision of the future, and between imperial interests and the growing coordination of Indian aspirations for self-rule. The volume analyses these tensions with reference to contemporary historical debates, and traces them through changing international relations and world wars to Indian independence and partition in 1947.
