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Book The India We Left  Charles Trevelyan  1826 65  Humphrey Trevelyan 1929 47

Download or read book The India We Left Charles Trevelyan 1826 65 Humphrey Trevelyan 1929 47 written by Humphrey Trevelyan and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The India We Left  Charles Trevelyan  1826 65  Humphrey Trevelyan  1929 47

Download or read book The India We Left Charles Trevelyan 1826 65 Humphrey Trevelyan 1929 47 written by Humphrey Trevelyan (Baron Trevelyan) and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1972 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Trevelyan`S New Book Describes The Human Scene Of British And Indians In India In The Mid-Nineteenth Century And In The Twilight Of Empire, Through The Experiences Of Two Members Of The Same Family.

Book The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj

Download or read book The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj written by James Onley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-11-22 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj tells the story behind one of the British Indian Empire's most forbidding frontiers: Eastern Arabia. Taking the shaikhdom of Bahrain as a case study, James Onley reveals how heavily Britain's informal empire in the Gulf, and other regions surrounding British India, depended upon the assistance and support of local elites.

Book The First World War  Anticolonialism and Imperial Authority in British India  1914 1924

Download or read book The First World War Anticolonialism and Imperial Authority in British India 1914 1924 written by Sharmishtha Roy Chowdhury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1914, when the Great War began, and 1924, when the Ottoman Caliphate ended, British and Indian officials and activists reformulated political ideas in the context of total war in the Middle East, Gandhian mass mobilisation, and the 1919 Amritsar massacre. Using discussions on travel, spatiality, and landscape as an entry point, The First World War, Anticolonialism and Imperial Authority in British India, 1914–1924 discusses the complex politics of late colonial India and the waning of imperial enthusiasm. This book presents a multifaceted picture of Indian politics at a time when total war and resurgent anticolonial activism were reshaping assumptions about state power, culture, and resistance.

Book Eastern Figures

Download or read book Eastern Figures written by Douglas Kerr and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eastern Figures is a literary history with a difference. It examines British writing about the East – centred on India but radiating as far as Egypt and the Pacific – in the colonial and postcolonial period. It takes as its subject "the East" that was real to the British imagination, largely the creation of writers who described and told stories about it, descriptions and stories coloured by the experience of empire and its aftermath. It is bold in its scope, with a centre of gravity in the work of writers like Stevenson, Kipling, Conrad, and Orwell, but also covering less well-known literary authors, and including Anglo-Indian romance writing, the reports and memoirs of administrators, and travel writing from Auden and Isherwood in China to Redmond O'Hanlon in Borneo. Eastern Figures produces a history of this writing by looking at a series of "figures" or tropes of representation through which successive writers sought to represent the East and the British experience of it – tropes such as exploring the hinterland, going native, and the figure of rule itself. Eastern Figures is accessible to anyone interested in the literary and cultural history of empire and its aftermath. It will be of especial interest to students and scholars of colonial and postcolonial writing, as it raises issues of identity and representation, power and knowledge, and centrally the question of how to represent other people. It has original ideas and approaches to offer specialists in literary history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, cultural historians, and researchers in colonial discourse analysis, postcolonial studies, and Asian area studies and history. It is also aimed at students in courses in literature and empire, culture and imperialism, and cross-cultural studies.

Book Guru English

    Book Details:
  • Author : Srinivas Aravamudan
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2011-06-27
  • ISBN : 1400826853
  • Pages : 347 pages

Download or read book Guru English written by Srinivas Aravamudan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guru English is a bold reconceptualization of the scope and meaning of cosmopolitanism, examining the language of South Asian religiosity as it has flourished both inside and outside of its original context for the past two hundred years. The book surveys a specific set of religious vocabularies from South Asia that, Aravamudan argues, launches a different kind of cosmopolitanism into global use. Using "Guru English" as a tagline for the globalizing idiom that has grown up around these religions, Aravamudan traces the diffusion and transformation of South Asian religious discourses as they shuttled between East and West through English-language use. The book demonstrates that cosmopolitanism is not just a secular Western "discourse that results from a disenchantment with religion, but something that can also be refashioned from South Asian religion when these materials are put into dialogue with contemporary social move-ments and literary texts. Aravamudan looks at "religious forms of neoclassicism, nationalism, Romanticism, postmodernism, and nuclear millenarianism, bringing together figures such as Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi, and Deepak Chopra with Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, Robert Oppenheimer, and Salman Rushdie. Guru English analyzes writers and gurus, literary texts and religious movements, and the political uses of religion alongside the literary expressions of religious teachers, showing the cosmopolitan interconnections between the Indian subcontinent, the British Empire, and the American New Age.

Book The Worlds of Victor Sassoon

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  • Author : Rosemary Wakeman
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2024-07-12
  • ISBN : 0226834190
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book The Worlds of Victor Sassoon written by Rosemary Wakeman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-07-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interpretative history of global urbanity in the 1920s and 1930s, from the vantage point of Bombay, London, and Shanghai, that follows the life of business tycoon Victor Sassoon. In this book, historian Rosemary Wakeman brings to life the frenzied, crowded streets, markets, ports, and banks of Bombay, London, and Shanghai. In the early twentieth century, these cities were at the forefront of the sweeping changes taking the world by storm as it entered an era of globalized commerce and the unprecedented circulation of goods, people, and ideas. Wakeman explores these cities and the world they helped transform through the life of Victor Sassoon, who in 1924 gained control of his powerful family’s trading and banking empire. She tracks his movements between these three cities as he grows his family’s fortune and transforms its holdings into a global juggernaut. Using his life as its point of entry, The Worlds of Victor Sassoon paints a broad portrait not just of wealth, cosmopolitanism, and leisure but also of the discrimination, exploitation, and violence wreaked by a world increasingly driven by the demands of capital.

Book Liberalism at Large

Download or read book Liberalism at Large written by Alexander Zevin and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this landmark book, Alexander Zevin looks at the development of modern liberalism by examining the long history of the Economist newspaper, which, since 1843, has been the most tireless - and internationally influential - champion of the liberal cause anywhere in the world. But what exactly is liberalism, and how has its message evolved? Liberalism at Large examines a political ideology on the move as it confronts the challenges that classical doctrine left unresolved: the rise of democracy, the expansion of empire, the ascendancy of high finance. Contact with such momentous forces was never going to leave the proponents of liberal values unchanged. Zevin holds a mirror to the politics - and personalities - of Economist editors past and present, from Victorian banker-essayists James Wilson and Walter Bagehot to latter-day eminences Bill Emmott and Zanny Minton Beddoes. Today, neither economic crisis at home nor permanent warfare abroad has dimmed the Economist's belief in unfettered markets, limited government, and a free hand for the West. Confidante to the powerful, emissary for the financial sector, portal onto international affairs, the bestselling newsweekly shapes the world its readers - as well as everyone else - inhabit. This is the first critical biography of one of the architects of a liberal world order now under increasing strain.

Book Macaulay and the Enlightenment

Download or read book Macaulay and the Enlightenment written by Nathaniel Wolloch and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new intellectual biography of Thomas Babington Macaulay, showing how nineteenth-century British liberal culture retained and transformed the ideas of the Enlightenment in a rapidly changing world.

Book The India We Left  Charles Trevelyan  1826 65  Humphrey Trevelyan  1929 47

Download or read book The India We Left Charles Trevelyan 1826 65 Humphrey Trevelyan 1929 47 written by Humphrey Trevelyan (Baron Trevelyan) and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1972 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Trevelyan`S New Book Describes The Human Scene Of British And Indians In India In The Mid-Nineteenth Century And In The Twilight Of Empire, Through The Experiences Of Two Members Of The Same Family.

Book India s Political Administrators

Download or read book India s Political Administrators written by David C. Potter and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India's Political Administrators is a revised and updated edition of the now classic political study of India's administrators before and after independence. This highly original study shows administrative continuities across 1947 and explains the consequences of these continuities for the modern Indian state. The focus is primarily on the Indian Civil Service and its successor, the Indian Administrative Service, and the book draws on the autobiographical reminiscences of the men and women who served in them, as well as on interview material and unpublished papers. The book also makes a significant contribution to current research on political aspects of the work of elite administrators. More fundamentally, it concentrates on a neglected area of theorizing about the state by explaining how state forms are reproduced through time despite changes in the political environment.

Book Macaulay

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert E. Sullivan
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2010-03-09
  • ISBN : 0674054695
  • Pages : 625 pages

Download or read book Macaulay written by Robert E. Sullivan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 150th anniversary of the death of the English historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay, Robert Sullivan offers a portrait of a Victorian life that probes the cost of power, the practice of empire, and the impact of ideas. His Macaulay is a Janus-faced master of the universe: a prominent spokesman for abolishing slavery in the British Empire who cared little for the cause, a forceful advocate for reforming Whig politics but a Machiavellian realist, a soaring parliamentary orator who avoided debate, a self-declared Christian, yet a skeptic and a secularizer of English history and culture, and a stern public moralist who was in love with his two youngest sisters. Perhaps best known in the West for his classic History of England, Macaulay left his most permanent mark on South Asia, where his penal code remains the law. His father ensured that ancient Greek and Latin literature shaped Macaulay’s mind, but he crippled his heir emotionally. Self-defense taught Macaulay that power, calculation, and duplicity rule politics and human relations. In Macaulay’s writings, Sullivan unearths a sinister vision of progress that prophesied twentieth-century genocide. That the reverent portrait fashioned by Macaulay’s distinguished extended family eclipsed his insistent rhetoric about race, subjugation, and civilizing slaughter testifies to the grip of moral obliviousness. Devoting his huge talents to gaining power—above all for England and its empire—made Macaulay’s life a tragedy. Sullivan offers an unsurpassed study of an afflicted genius and a thoughtful meditation on the modern ethics of power.

Book Whose India

Download or read book Whose India written by Teresa Hubel and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book India and Indians

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  • Author : Colgate University. Libraries
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1974
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book India and Indians written by Colgate University. Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Writings on British History

Download or read book Writings on British History written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imperial Vineyard

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  • Author : Bernard Palmer
  • Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Imperial Vineyard written by Bernard Palmer and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Book News

Download or read book British Book News written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: