Download or read book Shimla Then Now written by Vipin Pubby and published by Indus Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Fulfils A Long-Felt Need In Providing A Chronological Account Of The Events That Took Place In Shimla During The British Raj And After Independence.

Download or read book Christianity and Belonging in Shimla North India written by Jonathan Miles-Watson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the material religion of contemporary Shimla, a vibrant postcolonial city, famed for its colonial heritage, set against the backdrop of the North-Western Himalayas. Jonathan Miles-Watson demonstrates that this landscape is able to peacefully reconcile the apparent tensions of faith, heritage and identity in a way that unseats traditional theories of religion, politics and heritage. It presents a mystery that is written in space through time; the key to unlocking this mystery lies in clear view, at the city's heart, in the contemporary material religion that surrounds nominally Christian sacred sites. Although the material religion centres on landscapes that are identifiable as Christian, the book demonstrates that Hindus, atheists and Sikhs all have a role to play in the mutually constitutive relations that lie at the centre of these knots of sacred entanglement. This book builds upon over a decade of research to present an ethnographic account of devotional practices that speaks to contemporary developments in both the anthropology of Christianity and material religion. Through this exploration the book answers the mystery of Shimla's postcolonial harmony, while complicating established theories in the anthropology of religion, postcolonial studies, mythography, heritage studies and material culture.

Download or read book The Butcher of Amritsar written by Nigel Collett and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-10-15 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 13 April 1919, General Reginald Dyer marched a squad of Indian soldiers into the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, and opened fire without warning on a crowd gathered to hear political speeches. This is an account of the massacre set in the context of a biography of a man whose attitudes reflected many of the views common in the Raj.

Download or read book Shimla Blues written by Babaji and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The boy in this story, Was very poor. Who came to India, but not on a tour. Who lost everything, and had nothing. Who kept his faith and trusted his fate. Who followed his heart and chased his dream. To make sure, in the end he has his team. Betrayed by people he knew, helped by angels very few. It’s a fiction based on reality. Be honest with your feedback, no formality.

Download or read book The Magic Mountains written by Dane Keith Kennedy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 288 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. 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.

Download or read book Wisdom of Community written by Susan Visvanathan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wisdom of Community is a compilation of essays which documents the key issues that have been pertinent in national debates in India. In some ways it takes a linear and chronological position on how the past informs us as we proceed with making sense of postmodern fluid society. It tries to understand how affected or influenced we are by colonialism, and the debates which brought us our freedom. It uses biography, symbols and narratives to piece together our engagement with literature, history, myth and legend. It presupposes that the past is contextualised through narrative production. Each essay in this collection is tuned to the greater debates, which continue today in problematized global and cosmopolitan contexts to describe the relation between town and country. The consistent preoccupation is with labour and its intended consequences. Here, climate change, law court trials and constructing parallel histories which have influenced us are drawn to tell the reader that learning from history is essential for our survival. Readers will see that the world always appears in the spaces that are produced by travel, by terror, freedom, conquest and adaptation. The coexistence of all these across history, allows for the warp and weft of narrative production to be evident as analysable and comprehensive. The reader enters this frame of interlocking essays in order to understand how significant the production of stories are, and how we may find similarities in our condition across time and space. The book consists of 12 essays which are arranged in a way that the essential problems are made evident as questions of occupation, survival, and translation of world views. It brings the world closer, just as in reality it seems to be receding, because we are afraid of what we see, and know. The method is called Learning from History. The Wisdom of Community brings to the reader the interlacing of archival, fieldwork and literary materials in order to bring to the reader the constants that inform our lives, while recognizing the past as ever-present. The essays in this collection span a period of thirty years, and were earlier published as essays in popular journals and magazines and newspapers, but also include some scholarly articles. They are divided into essays on travel, feminism, as well as activist, literary, and analytical essays. The reader will find in them the insights of three decades spanning the years of teaching and writing while living in Delhi. The link connecting these essays is time and memory, as well as the belief that we can learn from the past. The “circulation of ideas” appears as a dominant theme, in all the essays, along with the emphases on agency, and the celebration of the right to choice and the articulation of human will, since the themes of democracy and freedom are common to all.

Download or read book Indian Summer written by Alex Von Tunzelmann and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary story of romance, history, and divided loyalties--set against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic events of the 20th century--"Indian Summer" reveals how Britain ceased to be a superpower after it lost India as a colony.

Download or read book The Last Nizam and His People written by Narendra Chapalgaonkar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a Princely State, Hyderabad was the largest in population among over 560 tributary states under British paramountcy in colonial India. This book is a collection of profiles and sketches of some of the most important and influential people from the erstwhile Hyderabad State during the first half of the 20th century, which marked the last decades of its existence as a distinct entity under the British Raj. It features profiles of Mir Osman Ali Khan, the Seventh Nizam; Mir Laik Ali, the last Prime Minister of Hyderabad; Kasim Razvi; some of the Nizam’s administrators and diplomats; as well as Sir Walter Monckton, the Nizam’s British Constitutional Advisor; amongst others. Unfolding the pages of history, the text gives an insight into the administration and affairs of Hyderabad during this time, through an examination of the lives of the people closely associated with it. A unique contribution to the literature on modern Indian and colonial history, this book will be indispensable for students and researchers of history, modern Indian history, colonialism, imperial history, biography, and South Asia studies. It will also appeal to general readers interested in the history of Hyderabad.

Download or read book Revitalised Urban Administration in India written by U. B. Singh and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 2002 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of scholarly articles by eminent scholars capsulate the welfare and development schemes and their many-handed implementation in the lives of people of cities and towns to construct the urban infrastructure as well as boost up the rich dividends of economy, as felt of the independence. A positive story of the experiments useful for academic community.

Download or read book Rose Cottage Shimla 1802 written by Puja Miri Yajnik and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moment Emerald boarded the ship to India, she knew she was in for an exciting journey. Having never journeyed abroad before, she simply could not wait to see what these mystical lands had in store for her. She felt as though this would be the greatest adventure of her life. And it was. Little did she know, the true adventure had nothing to do with magic, snakes or elephants as her mother believed it would. No; the greatest, most wonderful adventure in Miss Emerald Dawson’s life was waiting for her in the seemingly inconsequential town of Shimla, in the form of a mysterious royal who liked to frequent the local library. What started as brief eye contact in a crowd soon grew into a connection that would forever change both of their lives. However, Miss Dawson could not help but ask herself: is it proper? Can a love between a sheltered young woman from London and a Maharaja truly survive? Emerald had no way to find out except experience it for herself. What had she gotten herself into? She didn’t know. All she knew was that she certainly never wanted to get out of it.

Download or read book Budget Volume for written by India and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bound set of budget documents (central budget and railway budget), 23 or more numbered issues; most of the the titles are also published separately.

Download or read book Report written by Commonwealth Shipping Committee and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Himachal Competition Focus Half Yearly 2020 January to August written by and published by Sarla Publications Private Limited. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains news and important current affairs. Topics covered: Himachal Pradesh Cabinet Union Cabinet Employment and Jobs Awards and Honours Culture, Religion and Myths Economy and Development Himachal Budget 2020-21 Education

Download or read book The Legislative Assembly Debates written by India. Legislature. Legislative Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book One Summer in Shimla written by Vishwa Arup and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rupen is on holiday with his mom and dad, meeting his grandparents in the beautiful hill station of Shimla in the foothills of the Himalayas. Here in a mysterious location he discovers a key that no one remembers where it has come from and what it is for. Could there be treasure locked up somewhere that only this key can open? Or could it be something even more special for Rupen? To find out, join Rupen, the explorer, as he travels through exotic locations looking for the answer in this exciting travel adventure. Coming Up: In the next edition of the travel adventure, Rupen reaches the backwaters of Kerala on vacation. He learns that great many years ago, a legendary battle was fought on these shores. But no one really knows for sure! Join Rupen as he travels through Kerala to find more about this engrossing folklore.