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Book Delhi Gazetteer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Prabha Chopra
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1208 pages

Download or read book Delhi Gazetteer written by Prabha Chopra and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Gazetteer of Delhi  1883 4

Download or read book A Gazetteer of Delhi 1883 4 written by Punjab (India) and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indigenous Modernities

Download or read book Indigenous Modernities written by Jyoti Hosagrahar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how a historic and so-called 'traditional' city quietly evolved into one that was modern in its own terms; in form, use and meaning. Through a focused study of Delhi, the author challenges prevalent assumptions in architecture and urbanism to identify an interpretation of modernism that goes beyond conventional understanding. Part one reflects on transformations and discontinuities in built form and spatial culture and questions accepted notions of the static nature of what is normally referred to as traditional and non-Western architecture. Part two is a critical discussion of Delhi in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, redefining modernism in a way that separates the city's architecture and society from the objectified realm of the exotic whilst acknowledging non-Western ideas of modernity. In the final part the author considers 'indigenous modernities': the irregular, the uneven and the unexpected in what uncritical observers might call a coherent 'traditional' society and built environment.

Book History of the Gazetteers of India

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sashi Bhusan Chaudhuri
  • Publisher : New Delhi : Ministry of Education, Government of India
  • Release : 1964
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book History of the Gazetteers of India written by Sashi Bhusan Chaudhuri and published by New Delhi : Ministry of Education, Government of India. This book was released on 1964 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Frontier Policy of the Delhi Sultans

Download or read book The Frontier Policy of the Delhi Sultans written by Agha Hussain Hamadani and published by Atlantic Publishers & Distri. This book was released on 1992 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Present Work, As Its Title Sug¬Gests, Focusses On The Frontier Policy Of The Delhi Sultans And Traces The Ups And Downs It Underwent During The Reign Of Different Rulers, Together With The Various Contributory Factors For The Periodical Adjustments.The Study Is Based On Original Source Material And To Make The Narrative Intelligible The Author Has Added Several Useful Maps Showing The Routes Followed By The Mongol Hordes In Their Incursions Into India, As Well As The Fortifications Built By The Sultans To Meet This Formidable Challenge.

Book     Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Negotiating Cultures

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pilar Maria Guerrieri
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018-01-10
  • ISBN : 0199091730
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book Negotiating Cultures written by Pilar Maria Guerrieri and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on one of the largest megacities in the world—Delhi—this volume is a rare peek into the ineluctable process of hybridization between Indian and ‘other’ cultures within its local architecture and urban planning. The book explores a segment of the history of Delhi from 1912 through 1962, when the contemporary megacity was born, making a comparison between pre- and post-Independence, which is relatively neglected in academia. The author traces architectural and urban elements of the city of Delhi to understand how foreign developmental models were indigenized, the resistance encountered in the process, and finally their adaptation to local architectural contexts. Highlighting the complexities of ‘multiple Delhis’ with different or simultaneous cultural influences as well as with the various ways those influences have been interpreted or contextualized, the author offers a fresh insight into what is happening in Delhi’s globalized built environment nowadays. The book aims to unearth the social relations emerging from the constant flux in style of architecture and its related elements in an urbanized area.

Book Ancient Delhi

    Book Details:
  • Author : Upinder Singh
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Ancient Delhi written by Upinder Singh and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers ancient, medieval, and modern periods.

Book Ruling Through Education

Download or read book Ruling Through Education written by Tim Allender and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the history of colonial education in the Punjab, the large province of Hindustan divided today between India and Pakistan, this book argues that the British-controlled system of colonial education in Hindustan failed well before the national movement challenged foreign educational practice in the early twentieth century. Drawing on extensive archival research in Great Britain, India and Pakistan, Allender shows how the early ideas of British officials generated a highly imaginative village system of schooling. Attempting to accommodate local language and religious sensitivities, this broad-based scheme offered possibilities to improve the lot of village boys. The revolt of 1857, and a well-meaning crusade against female infanticide, prompted officials to drop this scheme and to content themselves with city based schools. Christian missionary tensions with the government over their evangelising agenda also meant that their focus on poor students was limited to a mere 17 years. These developments helped to create a strong indigenous voice for educational innovations and change, notably represented in the Arya Samaj. In 1882, the Hunter Commission marked a recognition over the previous 30 years made it impossible for them to reach the general population with an effective European-led scheme of education.

Book The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape

Download or read book The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape written by Robert Layton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape contributes to the development of theory in archaeology and anthropology, provides new and varied case studies of landscape and environment from five continents, and raises important policy issues concerning development and the management of heritage.

Book Colonial Urban Development

Download or read book Colonial Urban Development written by Anthony D. King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Study focuses on the social and, more especially, the cultural processes governing colonial urban development and develops a theory and methodology to do this. The author demonstrates how the physical and spatial arrangements characterizing urban development are unique products of a particular society, to be understood only in terms of its values, behaviour and institutions and the distribution of social and political power within it. Nowhere is this more apparent than in 'colonial cities' of Asia and Africa where the environmental assumptions of a dominant, industrializing Western power were introduced to largely 'pre-industrial' societies. Anthony King draws his material primarily from these areas, and includes a case study of the development of colonial Delhi from the early nineteenth century to 1947. Yet, as the author explains, the problems of how cultural social and political factors influence the nature of environments and how these in turn affect social processes and behaviour, are of global significance. This book was first published in 1976.

Book A Gazetteer of Delhi  1912

Download or read book A Gazetteer of Delhi 1912 written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the London Library  St  James Square  London

Download or read book Catalogue of the London Library St James Square London written by London Library and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Grass in their Mouths  The Upper Doab of India under the Company s Magna Charta  1793 1830

Download or read book Grass in their Mouths The Upper Doab of India under the Company s Magna Charta 1793 1830 written by Dirk H.A. Kolff and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarship on the pre-Bentinck period of Indian history has taken little notice of the inevitable dilemmas of colonial rule as they became visible in the districts. This book argues that the disdain the eighteenth-century Westminster parliaments expressed both for Indians and the East India Company induced the Bengal civil service to formulate for itself a corporate identity that, because of its distant and self-centered character, prevented it to acquire an executive hold on most levels of the Indian administration. The core of the book consists of superbly-detailed studies of the ways in which, in the Ganges-Jumna doab, villagers, revenue farmers, Indian policemen and revenue officials, bankers and judges struggled to overcome or profit from this feature of the colonial administration.

Book The Silent Voices and the Creation of a New Universe

Download or read book The Silent Voices and the Creation of a New Universe written by Pratibha Chawla and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the ideological attitudes of Sikh Gurus toward women and their resulting social impact. This book is an analytical study of the Sikh Gurus' perception of women and their societal roles, with an emphasis on the impact of religious ideology on gender dynamics. Sikhism stands apart in its respectful attitudes towards women. This book explores how these religious perspectives shaped the social relations and evolution of the Sikh community (Sikh Panth), and whether there existed major differences in the views and ideologies of Sikh Gurus, contemporary Bhakti saints and Guru Nanak himself. The book also examines the influence of Sikh Gurus on patriarchal ideology, and whether their normative beliefs were reflected in operative realities. Delving into the Sikh ideological history, so as to fully ascertain and comprehend the nuanced message of the Sikh Gurus who advocated for a more gender sensitive society, this work will help connect past and present, shedding new light on faultlines in our understanding which have occurred over the centuries, and have led us where we are today.