Download or read book Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India written by Nitin Sinha and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a regional focus on Bihar between the 1760s and 1880s, ‘Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India’ reveals the shifting and contradictory nature of the colonial state’s policies and discourses on communication. The volume explores the changing relationship between trade, transport and mobility in India, as evident in the trading and mercantile networks operating at various scales of the economy. Of crucial importance to this study are the ways in which knowledge about roads and routes was collected through practices of travel, tours, surveys, and map-making, all of which benefited the state in its attempts to structure a regime that would regulate ‘undesirable’ forms of mobility.
Download or read book Culture Conflict and the Military in Colonial South Asia written by Kaushik Roy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers diverse and original perspectives on South Asia’s imperial military history. Unlike prevailing studies, the chapters in the volume emphasize both the vital role of culture in framing imperial military practice and the multiple cultural effects of colonial military service and engagements. The volume spans from the early East India Company period through to the Second World War and India’s independence, exploring themes such as the military in the field and at leisure, as well as examining the effects of imperial deployments in South Asia and across the British Empire. Drawing extensively on new archival research, the book integrates previously disparate accounts of imperial military history and raises new questions about culture and operational practice in the colonial Indian Army. This work will be of interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian history, war and strategic studies, military history, the British Empire, as well as politics and international relations.
Download or read book Bureaucratic Culture in Early Colonial India written by James Lees and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at how the fledgling British East India Company state of the 1760s developed into the mature Anglo-Indian empire of the 19th century. It investigates the bureaucratic culture of early Company administrators, primarily at the district level, and the influence of that culture on the nature and scope of colonial government in India. Drawing on a host of archival material and secondary sources, James Lees details the power relationship between local officials and their superiors at Fort William in Calcutta, and examines the wider implications of that relationship for Indian society. The book brings to the fore the manner in which the Company’s roots in India were established despite its limited military resources and lack of governmental experience. It underlines how the early colonial polity was shaped by European administrators’ attitudes towards personal and corporate reputation, financial gain, and military governance. A thoughtful intervention in understanding the impact of the Company’s government on Indian society, this volume will be of interest to researchers working within South Asian studies, British studies, administrative history, military history, and the history of colonialism.
Download or read book Becoming a Borderland written by Sanghamitra Misra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the politics of space and identity in the borderlands of northeastern India between the early 1800s and the 1930s. Critiquing contemporary post-colonial histories where this region emerges as fragments, this book sees these perspectives as continuing to be entrapped in a civilizational approach to history writing. Beginning in the pre-colonial period where it focuses on the negotiated character of state-formation during the Mughal imperium, the book then enters the space of the colonial where it looks at some of the early interventions of the East India Company. The analysis of markets as transmitters of authority highlights an important argument that the book makes. Peasantization and the introduction of the notion of the sedentary agriculturist as the productive subject also come up for a detailed discussion, along with economic change and property settlements, which are seen as important ways through which the institution of colonial legality got entrenched in the region. Underlining the interface between the political economy and practices of cultural studies, the book also explores the connections between speech, production of counter narratives of historical memory, political culture and economy, with a focus on the cultural production of a borderland identity that was marked by hyphenated existence between proto- 'Bengal' and proto- 'Assam'.
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Download or read book Justice and Police in Bengal 1765 1793 written by Niharkana Majumdar and published by Calcutta : K. L. Mukhopadhyay. This book was released on 1960 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book West Bengal District Records written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Guide to Source Materials in the India Office Library and Records for the History of Tibet Sikkim and Bhutan 1765 1950 written by Amar Kaur Jasbir Singh and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Police Administration in the Bengal Presidency written by Bengal (India). Police Dept and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book List of Official Publications other Than Confidential written by Bengal (India) Secretariat book depot and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Administration of Jails of the Province of Bengal written by Bengal (India). Jail Dept and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of Meetings written by Indian Historical Records Commission and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fort William written by East India Company and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Salt Industry of Bengal 1757 1800 written by Balai Barui and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
