Download or read book Swadeshi Steam written by A.R. Venkatachalapathy and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1906, Britain's grip on the world was unassailable. Its navy ruled the seas, and its trade empire spanned the globe. But in the small port town of Tuticorin, a lawyer named V.O. Chidambaram Pillai—known to the world as VOC—had a revolutionary idea that would challenge the might of the empire itself. VOC's plan was audacious: to launch the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company, a venture that would compete head-on with the British India Steam Navigation Company, the shipping giant that controlled the region. To make his dream a reality, he rallied native traders and patriotic citizens, raising the capital needed to launch his daring enterprise. But the company faced a formidable foe: British mercantile interests and the imperial state both backed its competitor, giving it deep pockets and brazen government backing. VOC and his allies would have to defy overwhelming odds to make their venture a success. Swadeshi Steam is a tale of heroism and defiance in the face of colonial oppression. Based on four decades of research in archives around the world, this inspiring saga showcases the power of one individual's vision to ignite a movement.

Download or read book Geographies of Anticolonialism written by Andrew Davies and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh approach to scholarship on the diverse nature of Indian anticolonial processes. Brings together a varied selection of literature to explore Indian anticolonialism in new ways Offers a different perspective to geographers seeking to understand political resistance to colonialism Addresses contemporary studies that argue nationalism was joined by other political processes, such as revolutionary and anarchist ideologies, to shape the Indian independence movement Includes a focus on a specific anticolonial group, the “Pondicherry Gang,” and investigates their significant impact which went beyond South India Helps readers understand the diverse nature of anticolonialism, which in turn prompts thinking about the various geographies produced through anticolonial activity

Download or read book Maritime Heritage of India written by Indian Navy and published by Notion Press. This book was released on with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This photo-essay book is a modest attempt to link our maritime past, along with the entire progress, to the present, and in light of the same, to relate the future of the nation to a distinct maritime orientation with the Indian Navy as the lead national maritime agency. It traces about 7,500 years of India's maritime history and heritage. There are eight chapters, each dwelling on different aspects of maritime heritage namely, trade and commerce, evolution of cultures, influence of architecture, forts and lighthouses, naval battles and the evolution of the Indian navy. With images and artwork, this book will give the reader a vivid insight into our country's rich maritime past.

Download or read book V O Chidambaram Pillai written by R.N.Sampath and published by Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume presents V.O.C. as a great and dauntless political leader, a pioneer in Trade Unionism in South India, a versatile scholar and a good critic of Tamil language and literature and Saiva Siddhanta philosophy.

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Download or read book Shades of Blue written by Harini Nagendra and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millennia, our cities have prospered and grown in the cradles of civilization-fertile lands blessed with rivers, lakes, seas and oceans. From the origins of life on earth, right down to its downfall, biblical or otherwise, water has been integral to the human story. In this passionate and extensively researched tribute to the elixir that sustains us all, authors Harini Nagendra and Seema Mundoli take us on a panoramic view of the water bodies of India and the urgent need to address their emergent ecological threats. From the Yamuna in Delhi to the Cauvery in Karnataka and the Pichola Lake in Udaipur to the Brahmaputra in Assam, this book is epic in its sweep and yet deeply moving in its intimate concerns. Interspersed with anthropological, legal and scientific vignettes of the water are fascinating anecdotes, ditties, myths and monsters blue and green. This book also brings into dialogue a vast range of colourful characters-from medieval poets to colonial masters and modern scientists-to paint for us a tapestry of connected histories and ring a timely knell for saving the very ecological systems that have sustained us for ages.

Download or read book Politics and Social Conflict in South India written by Eugene F. Irschick and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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