Download or read book A familiar history of British India written by Joachim Hayward Stocqueler and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Familiar History of British India written by J.H. Stocqueler and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Familiar History of British India written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-14 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of British India written by James Mill and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Familiar History of British India written by Joachim Hayward Stocqueler and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Familiar History of British India from the Earliest Period to the Present Time written by Joachim Hayward Stocqueler and published by . This book was released on 1865* with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tracing Your British Indian Ancestors written by Emma Jolly and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing Your British Indian Ancestors gives a fascinating insight into the history of the subcontinent under British rule and into the lives the British led there. It also introduces the reader to the range of historical records that can be consulted in order to throw light on the experience of individuals who were connected to India over the centuries of British involvement in the country.Emma Jolly looks at every aspect of British Indian history and at all the relevant resources. She explains the information held in the British Library India Office Records and The National Archives. She also covers the records of the armed forces, the civil service and the railways, as well as religious and probate records, and other sources available for researchers. At the same time, she provides a concise and vivid social history of the British in India: from the early days of the East India Company, through the Mutiny and the imposition of direct British rule in the mid-nineteenth century, to the independence movement and the last days of the Raj. Her book will help family historians put their research into an historical perspective, giving them a better understanding of the part their ancestors played in India in the past.
Download or read book Sex and the Family in Colonial India written by Durba Ghosh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of conjugal relationships between Indian women and British men in colonial India.
Download or read book India in British Raj written by Armaan Singh and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first chapter contains a sketch of the past history of India, showing the perpetual state of warfare and the oppression which existed up to the time of the Mughal empire, and how little good government was enjoyed by the people during the latter period which that as represented by agitators as the Golden Age. The consolidation of the British Empire is hardly noticed since that is the most familiar period of Indian history, but a glimpse is given of the anarchy and misery which followed upon the break-up of the Mughal Empire and the predatory predominance of the Marathas. A brief account is then given of the land system of the British Government, showing how much more favorable to the landowner and cultivator, it is than that of its predecessors in the title, whose system, nevertheless, it closely follows. The constitution of the Government of India isexplained, its financial system, the policy pursued towardsthe native states and on the frontier, the causes and characterof the present unrest, and the connection therewithof the Hindu Congress, the character of the reforms suggestedby Mr. Morley and Lord Minto, and now underthe consideration of the local administration and of thegeneral public, are all fully set forth. A chapter follows on social reform, and the incidentally some account is given of the domestic life of the Indians, a fascinating subject, and a mirror, in many respects, of life in the pantheistic and polytheistic times, with which those are familiar, who read the classics in school. Athe final chapter deals with the economic conditions of thecountry, and the economic policy of the Government ofIndia.The work is avowedly and frankly written fromThe British point of view and this should be borne in mindwhile reading the author's most instructive account ofthe attitude of the English official mind towards the greatand important questions with which the English Governmenthas to deal in administering the affairs of the enormousagglomeration of different races, for the peace andsafety of which it is responsible. One of the greatest problems that have ever confrontedthe British Government is that with which it is now calledupon to deal in India. The spirit of unrest, the desirefor greater personal liberty, the desire to take part inthe Government has arisen in India and will not down. The assassin has already begun his work in an attemptto protest against conditions which are resented by manyof the natives. Only recently in London item, an English-Indian official was assassinated by a native "student."How this "new spirit" has been awakened and fosteredin India, and the attitude of England toward it, are dealtwithin this volume among many other matters. This is a question of vital interest, for the teeming millions of Indian may one day be threatening the peace of the whole world.
Download or read book The British in India a Guide to Family History Research written by Faye B. Geddes and published by Lethbridge, Alta. : Ancestor Answers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of British India written by James Mill and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of British India, Vol. 1 In the Preface to the History of British India, Mr. Mill has claimed for himself the merits of patient and laborious investigation, and of original and independent judgment. The claim is substantiated by his work. His history is remarkable for extensive and diligent research, and for opinions which are peculiar either to the author, or to the school of which he was a distinguished disciple. Whilst, however, the historian of British India has derived the facts which he relates from numerous and diversified sources of information, and has investigated those sources with undeniable industry and unquestionable talent, it is not to be imagined that his labours have in every instance been rewarded with success, or that he has left nothing unexplored. He has himself taken pains to guard against such an expectation, He acknowledges that his opportunities of consulting published authorities were sometimes transient and precarious, that in some things, the unpublished documents of which he had need were not accessible to him; and that in the latter portion of his work, which may be regarded as almost contemporary history, he was in want of much personal information which he believed to exist, and which might have rendered his narrative richer, and perhaps more accurate in matters of detail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The East India Company at Home 1757 1857 written by Margot Finn and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule. From the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1857, objects, people and wealth flowed to Britain from Asia. As men in Company service increasingly shifted their activities from trade to military expansion and political administration, a new population of civil servants, army officers, surveyors and surgeons journeyed to India to make their fortunes. These Company men and their families acquired wealth, tastes and identities in India, which travelled home with them to Britain. Their stories, the biographies of their Indian possessions and the narratives of the stately homes in Britain that came to house them, frame our explorations of imperial culture and its British legacies.
Download or read book The History of British India written by James Mill and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Raj written by Lawrence James and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-08-12 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the critically acclaimed author of "The Rise and Fall of the British Empire" comes an unapologetic revisionist history of British rule in India. James recounts the twists and turns of imperialism and independence with a wealth of new material. 8-page photo insert.
Download or read book The Scandal of Empire written by Nicholas B. Dirks and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many have told of the East India Company’s extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one of these men—Warren Hastings—was put on trial by Edmund Burke, it brought the Company’s exploits to the attention of the public. Through the trial and after, the British government transformed public understanding of the Company’s corrupt actions by creating an image of a vulnerable India that needed British assistance. Intrusive behavior was recast as a civilizing mission. In this fascinating, and devastating, account of the scandal that laid the foundation of the British Empire, Nicholas Dirks explains how this substitution of imperial authority for Company rule helped erase the dirty origins of empire and justify the British presence in India. The Scandal of Empire reveals that the conquests and exploitations of the East India Company were critical to England’s development in the eighteenth century and beyond. We see how mercantile trade was inextricably linked with imperial venture and scandalous excess and how these three things provided the ideological basis for far-flung British expansion. In this powerfully written and trenchant critique, Dirks shows how the empire projected its own scandalous behavior onto India itself. By returning to the moment when the scandal of empire became acceptable we gain a new understanding of the modern culture of the colonizer and the colonized and the manifold implications for Britain, India, and the world.
Download or read book Sex and the Family in Colonial India South Asian Edition written by Durba Ghosh and published by . This book was released on 2008-02-02 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early years of the British Empire, cohabitation between Indian women and British men was commonplace and to some degree tolerated. However, as Durba Ghosh argues in a challenge to the existing historiography, anxieties about social status, appropriate sexuality, and the question of who could be counted as 'British' or 'Indian' were constant concerns of the colonial government even at this time. By following the stories of a number of mixed-race families, at all levels of the social scale, from high-ranking officials and noblewomen to rank-and-file soldiers and camp followers, and also the activities of indigenous female concubines, mistresses and wives, the author offers a fascinating account of how gender, class and race affected the cultural, social and even political mores of the period. The book makes an original and signal contribution to scholarship on colonialism, gender and sexuality.
Download or read book The Chaos of Empire written by Jon Wilson and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular image of the British Raj-an era of efficient but officious governors, sycophantic local functionaries, doting amahs, blisteringly hot days and torrid nights-chronicled by Forster and Kipling is a glamorous, nostalgic, but entirely fictitious. In this dramatic revisionist history, Jon Wilson upends the carefully sanitized image of unity, order, and success to reveal an empire rooted far more in violence than in virtue, far more in chaos than in control. Through the lives of administrators, soldiers, and subjects-both British and Indian-The Chaos of Empire traces Britain's imperial rule from the East India Company's first transactions in the 1600s to Indian Independence in 1947. The Raj was the most public demonstration of a state's ability to project power far from home, and its perceived success was used to justify interventions around the world in the years that followed. But the Raj's institutions-from law courts to railway lines-were designed to protect British power without benefiting the people they ruled. This self-serving and careless governance resulted in an impoverished people and a stifled society, not a glorious Indian empire. Jon Wilson's new portrait of a much-mythologized era finally and convincingly proves that the story of benign British triumph was a carefully concocted fiction, here thoroughly and totally debunked.
