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Author : Begam Abida Sultana
Release : 2016
Genre : Muslim women
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Book Rating : 840/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Muslim Women in Colonial Surma Valley by : Begam Abida Sultana
Download or read book Muslim Women in Colonial Surma Valley written by Begam Abida Sultana. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tirthankar Roy
Release : 2016-09-20
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Law and the Economy in Colonial India by : Tirthankar Roy
Download or read book Law and the Economy in Colonial India written by Tirthankar Roy. This book was released on 2016-09-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India’s economy has grown rapidly. To sustain growth and foreign investment over the long run requires a well-developed legal infrastructure for conducting business, including cheap and reliable contract enforcement and secure property rights. But it’s widely acknowledged that India’s legal infrastructure is in urgent need of reform, plagued by problems, including slow enforcement of contracts and land laws that differ from state to state. How has this situation arisen, and what can boost business confidence and encourage long-run economic growth? Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy trace the beginnings of the current Indian legal system to the years of British colonial rule. They show how India inherited an elaborate legal system from the British colonial administration, which incorporated elements from both British Common Law and indigenous institutions. In the case of property law, especially as it applied to agricultural land, indigenous laws and local political expediency were more influential in law-making than concepts borrowed from European legal theory. Conversely, with commercial law, there was considerable borrowing from Europe. In all cases, the British struggled with limited capacity to enforce their laws and an insufficient knowledge of the enormous diversity and differentiation within Indian society. A disorderly body of laws, not conducive to production and trade, evolved over time. Roy and Swamy’s careful analysis not only sheds new light on the development of legal institutions in India, but also offers insights for India and other emerging countries through a look at what fosters the types of institutions that are key to economic growth.
Author : Hemjyoti Medhi
Release : 2023-10-15
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Book Rating : 124/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gendered Publics by : Hemjyoti Medhi
Download or read book Gendered Publics written by Hemjyoti Medhi. This book was released on 2023-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive appraisal of the relatively unexplored but highly impactful women’s association, the Assam Mahila Samiti which led one of the most remarkable women’s movements in colonial India. Central to the Assam Mahila Samiti story is its founding Secretary, the firebrand feminist Chandraprava Saikiani (1901-72) who, despite being an unwed mother and belonging to a lower caste, was a celebrated writer, a polemical columnist, and a successful publicist of two vernacular magazines in the 1940s. The book traverses these individual and collective journeys from the 1920s to the 1950s, exploring their negotiations with the complex terrain of the multi-ethnic Brahmaputra valley during the highly politicised period of the anti-colonial movement. It argues that theoretical understanding of the term public sphere may be enriched through an engagement with rare archival materials of these middle class women’s associations’ hand written minutes of meetings in a local language in early twentieth-century colonial India and posits that gender may not function merely as constitutive of the public, but how women’s collectives may shape, transform and orchestrate a veritable gendered public, resistant to both native patriarchy and sometimes to colonial authority.
Author : Suparna Roy
Release : 2007
Genre : Land tenure
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Book Rating : 288/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Land System and Management in the Colonial Period by : Suparna Roy
Download or read book Land System and Management in the Colonial Period written by Suparna Roy. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barak Valley is situated in the southern part of the Indian state of Assam.
Author : Ashfaque Hossain
Release : 2022-08-25
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 813/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Colonial Globalization and its Effects on South Asia by : Ashfaque Hossain
Download or read book Colonial Globalization and its Effects on South Asia written by Ashfaque Hossain. This book was released on 2022-08-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the concept of colonial globalization to show how knowledge, information, technology, capital and labour have the potential to move freely across the world. It studies the experience of globalization "from below", rather than from the perspective of the British imperial centre. Focusing on the impact of colonial globalization on the people of Sylhet, East Bengal, and Assam, the volume seeks to analyse the "global" as a process in constant negotiation with the "local". It discusses various issues such as the opening of the hills of Sylhet and Assam for tea plantation. the involvement of local entrepreneurs with overseas planters in the global tea industry, the phenomenon of regional labour migration into eastern India, and Sylheti seamen and their involvement in the merchant marine. The author also highlights the contribution of peasants, labourers and women in the independence movement and the irreversible changes that they brought about. A unique contribution to the study of colonial globalisation, this volume will be indispensable for students and researchers of colonial history, modern Indian history, Northeast India, border studies, globalization, political economy, minority studies, globalization studies, third world studies, colonialism and postcolonialism, and South Asian studies.
