Download or read book Chandernagor written by Arghya Bose and published by Avenel Press. This book was released on 2017-10-07 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we in India talk about colonial encounters, we almost invariably fail to realize that the very notion of colonialism as understood in Indian academics is wanting. How, otherwise, do we explain the singularities of the Chandernagorian-French colonial encounters? How do we explain the fact that all residents of this quaint town, irrespective of colour, were entitled to full citizenship rights under the French republic since the 1870s? What explains the fact that the Chandernagorians had to themselves the right of representation in the French parliament by popularly elected representatives? How do our nationalists come to terms with the fact that Chandernagor never experienced any mass anti-French movement? And most importantly, how did this singularly unique colonial experience come to be a not-talked-of chapter in Indian history?
Download or read book A Wrinkle in Empire written by Arghya Bose and published by Avenel Press. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The manner in which social science studies relating to Indo-European colonial encounters emerged in Indian academics post-1947 evidently shows a tendency whereby such studies are essentially made to fit into the widely recognized and much studied colonizer-colonized dynamic proposed by the celebrated works of Edward Said and Albert Memmi. And there is an almost instinctual implication of Indo-British encounters into this dynamic. How does one, then, situate the presence of the marginalized French colonial exercise in India – in some sorts – that of a colonized colonizer – into this model? How does one explain such presences in the larger, more inclusive framework of a co-constituted history of colonial empires in India? How does the evolution of alternative territorial sovereignties impact the imaginative faculty of Indians in the colonial landscape? What are the ways in which the evolution of such imagined alternative territories shape inter-empire relations? Could such ‘voids’ in the dominant discourses of empire have led to the re-imagination of the territoriality of national anti-colonial resistance and created new strategic regimes of networked circulations? Or, could such potholes in the landscape of the dominant empire have led to the evolution of such spaces as territories of inter-empire resistance?
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Download or read book Mixed race and Modernity in Colonial India written by Adrian Carton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Portuguese, British and French colonial spaces, this book traces changing concepts of mixed-race identity in early colonial India. Starting in the sixteenth century, it discusses how the emergence of race was always shaped by affiliations based on religion, class, national identity, gender and citizenship across empires. In the context of increasing British power, the book looks at the Anglo-French tensions of the eighteenth century to consider the relationship between modernity and race-making. Arguing that different forms of modernity produced divergent categories of hybridity, it considers the impact of changing political structures on mixed-race communities. With its emphasis on specificity, the book situates current and past debates on the mixed-race experience and the politics of whiteness in broader historical and global contexts. By contributing to the understanding of race-making as an aspect of colonial governance, the book illuminates some margins of colonial India that are often lost in the shadows of the British regime. It is of interest to academics of world history, postcolonial studies, South Asian imperial history and critical mixed-race studies.
Download or read book Polycoloniality written by Saugata Bhaduri and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polycoloniality is a study of the activities of non-British European powers and players - primarily the Portuguese, the Dutch, the French, the Danish, the 'Germans' (representatives of the Austrian and Prussian empires), the Swedish and the Greek - in Bengal from the late 13th to the early 19th century, and their role in shaping Bengal's brush with 'colonial modernity' prior to, and possibly more foundationally than, the English. Much of the traditional historiography of colonialism, in South Asia in general and Bengal in particular, and the resultant postcolonial commonsense, is woefully mononational, with the focus being almost exclusively on England and its colonial exploits. This is obviously factually incorrect and inadequate, with the multiple European nations named above having had simultaneous colonial contact with Bengal from the 16th century, and there having been a steady flow of Europeans, primarily Italians, to Bengal from at least the late 13th century. More importantly, it is these multiple European players, rather than the English, who can be credited with the setting up of the first cosmopolitan cities in Bengal, its first colleges and universities, the beginnings of print culture in Bengali, the foundations of the modern linguistic, literary and cultural registers of Bengal, the first instances of social and political reforms, etc. Apart from an elaboration of all the above, can Polycoloniality, or a re-look at Bengal's colonial history through the lens of plurality, also offer a template to understand the multinational forms of current new-imperialism more fittingly than postcolonial commonsense can?
Download or read book The Revolution and the French Establishments in India 1790 1793 written by Arghya Bose and published by Setu Prakashani. This book was released on 2019 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When, on February 22, 1790, a French barge by the name of ‘Bienvenue’ came ashore Pondichéry with the news of the events in Paris around the meeting of the Estates General, the storming of the Bastille and the abolition of feudal rights; it sent out a wave of topsy-turving repercussions amongst both the French and the English colonial administrations in India. Excited with the newly found principles that were inherent in the cries of the Revolution in France, yet, not knowing their precise socio-political extents and implications, each of the five French settlements on the Indian subcontinent came to create their own individual ‘revolutions’ – periods of mostly confusing and sometimes violent socio-political upheaval. Wellesley, on the other hand, fearing the influence of the principles of the French Revolution on the employees of the English East India Company, asked his superiors in London for the establishment of a college in Fort William in order to train men in the service of the Company against such ‘erroneous principles’. How do these revolutions in each of the French settlements in India – in some ways, mirror events of the 1789 Revolution in the metropolis – unfold? Where, exactly, did the universalist values of the Revolution find its boundaries when applied in contemporaneous colonial India? And how were the diametrically opposite values of imperial and republican France sought to be accommodated in such a context? Labernadie’s intricately detailed narrative from 1930 developed out of a privileged access to the French colonial administrative (yet unpublished) archives and correspondences based in Pondichéry, along with the contemporary interventions of Jacques Weber and Hari Shankar Vasudevan ensure a volume that is not only rich in material resources, but also intellectually nourishing; compelling its readers to reflect on questions of transcolonial experiences and mixed modernities in colonial India, as much as the very consequences of a revolution that fundamentally changed the manner in which politics came to be thought of thence.
Download or read book Official Report OF DEBATES VOLUME II written by Council of Europe and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Company Politics written by Cross and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the Seven Years' War and the consolidation of British power on the subcontinent, the French monarchy chartered a new East India Company. The Nouvelle Compagnie des Indes was an attempt to maintain French diplomatic and financial credit among European rivals and trading partners within a region integral to the broader imperial economy. Reimagining French power as subsisting through an informal empire of trade, instead of a territorial empire of conquest, officials and intellectuals sought to remake the trading company as a private, "purely commercial" actor, rather than a sovereign company-state. Company Politics offers a new interpretation of political economy, imperialism, and the history of the corporation during the late Old Regime and the French Revolution. Despite its reputation for speculation, corruption, and scandal, Elizabeth Cross argues that the "New Company" emerged from the unique circumstances France faced in India as a weakened imperial power vis à vis the expanding British East India Company. Seeking to control the Company for their own purposes, French government officials, theorists, and private financial actors clashed over differing notions of political economy, debt, and imperial power for Europe and the Indian Ocean world. In doing so, they envisioned new alignments between state and market, challenged the legitimacy of the Old Regime's economic and imperial policies, and sought to revolutionize the underlying corporation itself through progressive demands of corporate self-governance. Thus, the New Company should be seen as an innovative capitalist actor in its own right, not a mere derivative of its Anglo-Dutch competitors. A valuable contribution to scholarship on capitalism, empire, and globalization, Company Politics uses the Company's history to present the Revolutionary Era as one of dynamic economic ideologies, practices, and experimentation, rather than only one of crisis and decline.
Download or read book Proceedings of Meetings written by Indian Historical Records Commission and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book French Possessions in India written by Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Madeleine s Children written by Sue Peabody and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madeleine's Children uncovers a multigenerational saga of an enslaved family in India and two islands, Réunion and Mauritius, in the eastern empires of France and Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A tale of legal intrigue, it reveals the lives and secret relationships between slaves and free people that have remained obscure for two centuries. As a child, Madeleine was pawned by her impoverished family and became the slave of a French woman in Bengal. She accompanied her mistress to France as a teenager, but she did not challenge her enslavement there on the basis of France's Free Soil principle, a consideration that did not come to light until future lawyers investigated her story. In France, a new master and mistress purchased her, despite laws prohibiting the sale of slaves within the kingdom. The couple transported Madeleine across the ocean to their plantation in the Indian Ocean colonies, where she eventually gave birth to three children: Maurice, Constance, and Furcy. One died a slave and two eventually became free, but under very different circumstances. On 21 November 1817, Furcy exited the gates of his master's mansion and declared himself a free man. The lawsuit waged by Furcy to challenge his wrongful enslavement ultimately brought him before the Royal Court of Paris, despite the extreme measures that his putative master, Joseph Lory, deployed to retain him as his slave. A meticulous work of archival detection, Madeleine's Children investigates the cunning, clandestine, and brutal strategies that masters devised to keep slaves under their control-and paints a vivid picture of the unique and evolving meanings of slavery and freedom in the Indian Ocean world.
Download or read book Persian Gulf French and Portuguese Possessions written by Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbooks Prepared Under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office written by Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbooks Prepared Under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office Persian Gulf French and Portuguese possessions no 76 81 written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
