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Book Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers  Almora

Download or read book Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers Almora written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book South Asian Borderlands

Download or read book South Asian Borderlands written by Farhana Ibrahim and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an interdisciplinary volume exploring a range of historical, anthropological and literary ideas and issues in South Asian Borderlands. Going beyond the territorial and geo-political imaginaries of contemporary borderlands in South Asia, chapters in this book engage with the questions of sovereignty, control, policing as well as continuing affections across politically divided borderlands. Modern conceptions of nationhood have created categories of legality and illegality among historically, socially, economically and emotionally connected residents of South Asian borderlands. This volume provides unique insights into the interconnected lives and histories of these borderland spaces and communities.

Book Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers  Almora

Download or read book Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers Almora written by Uttar Pradesh (India) and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Magic Mountains

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  • Author : Dane Kennedy
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2022-03-25
  • ISBN : 0520306015
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book The Magic Mountains written by Dane Kennedy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-03-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perched among peaks that loom over heat-shimmering plains, hill stations remain among the most curious monuments to the British colonial presence in India. In this engaging and meticulously researched study, Dane Kennedy explores the development and history of the hill stations of the raj. He shows that these cloud-enshrouded havens were sites of both refuge and surveillance for British expatriates: sanctuaries from the harsh climate as well as an alien culture; artificial environments where colonial rulers could nurture, educate, and reproduce themselves; commanding heights from which orders could be issued with an Olympian authority. Kennedy charts the symbolic and sociopolitical functions of the hill stations over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, arguing that these highland communities became much more significant to the British colonial government than mere places for rest and play. Particularly after the revolt of 1857, they became headquarters for colonial political and military authorities. In addition, the hill stations provided employment to countless Indians who worked as porters, merchants, government clerks, domestics, and carpenters. The isolation of British authorities at the hill stations reflected the paradoxical character of the British raj itself, Kennedy argues. While attempting to control its subjects, it remained aloof from Indian society. Ironically, as more Indians were drawn to these mountain areas for work, and later for vacation, the carefully guarded boundaries between the British and their subjects eroded. Kennedy argues that after the turn of the century, the hill stations were increasingly incorporated into the landscape of Indian social and cultural life. 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 1996.

Book British Administration in Kumaon Himalayas

Download or read book British Administration in Kumaon Himalayas written by Arun K. Mittal and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1986 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Human Environment and Socio economic Development in the Himalayas

Download or read book Human Environment and Socio economic Development in the Himalayas written by H. C. Pokhriyal and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Government Gazette

Download or read book Government Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Conquest and Community

Download or read book Conquest and Community written by Shahid Amin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conquest and Community, by prize-winning historian Shahid Amin, is a kaleidoscopic look into one of the most divisive issues in South Asian history: the Turkic conquest of the subcontinent and the subsequent spread of Muslim rule. Covering more than eight hundred years of history, the book centers around the enduringly popular saint Ghazi Miyan, the youthful and lovable soldier of Islam to whom shrines have been erected all over the country. After detailing the warrior saint s supposed exploits, Amin charts the various ways he has been remembered throughout the last millennium. As he shows, the charming stories, ballads, and proverbs that grew up around him domesticated the bloody conquest and made it appear both virtuous and familial. Amin brings the story of Ghazi Miyan s long afterlife into the contemporary period through his ethnographic analysis of the still-active shrines as sites of interreligious public piety. What is at first glance a story of just one mythical figure becomes through Amin s thoughtful treatment an allegory for the history of Hindu-Muslim relations over an astonishingly long period of time. As the Muslim conquest of India is being mobilized for dangerously polarizing political ends in India today, this nonsectarian account of religious strife will be a timely and sane contribution to the vexed historical debate."

Book Catalog of Publications Issued by the Government of the United Provinces and Obtainable from the Book Depot

Download or read book Catalog of Publications Issued by the Government of the United Provinces and Obtainable from the Book Depot written by United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (India) and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Short Catalogue

Download or read book A Short Catalogue written by India. High Commissioner in the United Kingdom. Library and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers  Pithoragarh

Download or read book Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers Pithoragarh written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Publications

Download or read book Catalogue of Publications written by Uttar Pradesh (India) and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers  Pithoragarh

Download or read book Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers Pithoragarh written by Uttar Pradesh (India) and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Publications Issued by the Government of the United Provinces and Obtainable from the Book Depot  Government Central Press  Allabadad

Download or read book Catalog of Publications Issued by the Government of the United Provinces and Obtainable from the Book Depot Government Central Press Allabadad written by United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (India) and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers  Tehri

Download or read book Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers Tehri written by Uttar Pradesh (India) and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Printed Books Published Before 1932

Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books Published Before 1932 written by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Library and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: