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Book The Suttee  A Poem  with Notes

Download or read book The Suttee A Poem with Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Suttee  and Other Poems

Download or read book The Suttee and Other Poems written by Mrs. Phelps (of Thame.) and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hobson Jobson

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henry Yule
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2013-06-13
  • ISBN : 0191645834
  • Pages : 617 pages

Download or read book Hobson Jobson written by Henry Yule and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive.' Hobson-Jobson is a unique work of maverick scholarship. Compiled in 1886 by two India enthusiasts, it documents the words and phrases that entered English from Arabic, Persian, Indian, and Chinese sources - and vice versa. Described by Salman Rushdie as 'the legendary dictionary of British India' it shows how words of Indian origin were absorbed into the English language and records not only the vocabulary but the culture of the Raj. Illustrative quotations from a wide range of travel texts, histories, memoirs, and novels create a canon of English writing about India. The definitions frequently slip into anecdote, reminiscence, and digression, and they offer intriguing insights into Victorian attitudes to India and its people and customs. With its delight in language, etymology, and puns, Hobson-Jobson has fascinated generations of writers from Rudyard Kipling to Tom Stoppard and Amitav Ghosh. This selected edition retains the range and idiosyncrasy of the original, and includes fascinating information on the glossary's creation and its significance for the English language. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Book Hobson Jobson

    Book Details:
  • Author : A. C. Burnell
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-10-24
  • ISBN : 113660331X
  • Pages : 1071 pages

Download or read book Hobson Jobson written by A. C. Burnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 1071 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the second (1939) edition of the work that is still the standard source-book of the Anglo-Indian language.

Book Hobson Jobson

Download or read book Hobson Jobson written by Sir Henry Yule and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bungalow, pyjamas, tiffin, rickshaw, veranda, curry, cheroot, chintz, calico, gingham, mango, junk and catamaran are all words which have crept into the English language from the days of Britain's colonial rule of the Indian sub-continent and the Malaysian Peninsular. Hobson-Jobson (derived from the Islamic cry at the celebration of Muhurram 'Ya Hasan, ya Hosain' is shorthand for the assimilation of foreign words to the sound pattern of the adopting language. This dictionary, compiled in the late-19th century, is an invaluable source which has never been superseded. It is an essential book for all who are interested in English etymology and the development of the language. AUTHORS: Arthur Cole Burnell (1840-1882) spent large parts of his life in India working for the civil service, and translated a considerable number of Sanskrit manuscripts. He co-operated with Sir Henry Yule to write 'Hobson-Jobson', and Anglo-Indian dictionary. Sir Henry Yule was a military man, serving in India and retiring as a colonel in 1862. In his leisure time, he wrote some well-received books on Asia, but he is best remembered for collaborating with Dr A.C. Burnell in writing the Anglo-Indian dictionary, 'Hobson-Jobson'.

Book Hobson Jobson

Download or read book Hobson Jobson written by Sir Henry Yule and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Poetry of British India  1780   1905 Vol 1

Download or read book The Poetry of British India 1780 1905 Vol 1 written by Maire ni Fhlathuin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume reset edition draws together a selection of Anglo-Indian poetry from the Romantic era and the nineteenth century.

Book Indian Angles

Download or read book Indian Angles written by Mary Ellis Gibson and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian Angles is a new historical approach to Indian English literature. It shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and re-creates the historical webs of affiliation and resistance that writers in colonial India--writers of British, Indian, and mixed ethnicities--experienced.

Book The Exotic

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  • Author : Dorothy M. Figueira
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 1994-09-15
  • ISBN : 1438402759
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book The Exotic written by Dorothy M. Figueira and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1994-09-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reaches of Empire

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  • Author : Suvendrini Perera
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780231075787
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Reaches of Empire written by Suvendrini Perera and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Are All the Women Still White

Download or read book Are All the Women Still White written by Janell Hobson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a contemporary response to such landmark volumes as All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave and This Bridge Called My Back. More than thirty years have passed since the publication of All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave. Given the growth of women’s and gender studies in the last thirty-plus years, this updated and responsive collection expands upon this transformation of consciousness through multiracial feminist perspectives. The contributors here reflect on transnational issues as diverse as intimate partner violence, the prison industrial complex, social media, inclusive pedagogies, transgender identities, and (post) digital futures. This volume provides scholars, activists, and students with critical tools that can help them decenter whiteness and other power structures while repositioning marginalized groups at the center of analysis. “Are All the Women Still White? blends traditions of feminist-of-color struggle with the innovative insights of twenty-first-century thinkers, artists, and activists. For anyone engaged in inclusive, multi-issued work, this book is indispensable.” — Barbara Smith, Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith

Book Colonial Australian Women Poets

Download or read book Colonial Australian Women Poets written by Katie Hansord and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My book traces the significant poetic and political contributions made by non-canonical women poets, situating women's poetry both in colonial Australian print culture and in wider imperial and transnational contexts. Women poets in colonial Australia have tended to be represented as marginal and isolated figures or absent. This study intervenes by demonstrating an alternative networked tradition of transnational feminist poetics and politics beyond and around emergent masculine nationalism, particularly within newspapers and periodical print culture. Without the inclusion of periodical literature, women’s poetry in Australia during the colonial period would appear to have been fairly limited. When periodical literature is taken into account, this picture is radically altered, and poets emerge as consistent contributors, often across a variety of newspapers and journals, who were well-known, influential and connected with political figures and literary circles. In examining this poetry in the original context of the newspapers and journals, the political intervention and the reception of that poetry is made much more apparent.

Book Feminism and Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clare Midgley
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2007-09-28
  • ISBN : 1134577478
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Feminism and Empire written by Clare Midgley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-09-28 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminism and Empire establishes the foundational impact that Britain's position as leading imperial power had on the origins of modern western feminism. Based on extensive new research, this study exposes the intimate links between debates on the 'woman question' and the constitution of 'colonial discourse' in order to highlight the centrality of empire to white middle-class women's activism in Britain. The book begins by exploring the relationship between the construction of new knowledge about colonised others and the framing of debates on the 'woman question' among advocates of women's rights and their evangelical opponents. Moving on to examine white middle-class women's activism on imperial issues in Britain, topics include the anti-slavery boycott of Caribbean sugar, the campaign against widow-burning in colonial India, and women’s role in the foreign missionary movement prior to direct employment by the major missionary societies. Finally, Clare Midgley highlights how the organised feminist movement which emerged in the late 1850s linked promotion of female emigration to Britain's white settler colonies to a new ideal of independent English womanhood. This original work throws fascinating new light on the roots of later 'imperial feminism' and contemporary debates concerning women's rights in an era of globalisation and neo-imperialism.

Book Subaltern Squibs and Sentimental Rhymes  the Raj Reflected in Light Verse

Download or read book Subaltern Squibs and Sentimental Rhymes the Raj Reflected in Light Verse written by Graham Shaw and published by Jadavpur University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first anthology to be devoted exclusively to light verse composed by British authors in undivided India, plus a few items illustrating parallel experiences in Sri Lanka and Myanmar. Written overwhelmingly by the junior ranks of the military and civil service, these works constitute a ‘running commentary’ on the Raj from below. The typical subaltern liked to picture himself as unduly put upon, unfairly ignored, and inexplicably underrated. Before departure for India, the impressionable heads of young recruits could all too easily be filled with stories of immense fortunes to be easily made by ‘shaking the Pagoda Tree’. Once in India, such dreams quickly evaporated for a variety of reasons – the climate, the isolation, the slow pace or complete lack of career advancement, illness, or untimely death. Whatever the authors may have lacked in technical skill and refinement of poetical expression, they more than made up for by the vast range of subject-matter tackled and the outspokenness of the reactions recorded – amusing, surprising, shocking, scurrilous, abusive or otherwise thoroughly distasteful. As witnesses to both attitudes and events, these verses are of enormous value to social and cultural as well as political historians of nineteenth-century India.

Book The Holocaust  Or  the Witch of Menzie  a Poem  Illustrative of the Cruelties of Superstition  Lays of Palestine  and Other Poems  To which is Prefixed  Enchantment Disenchanted  Or  a Treatise on Superstition

Download or read book The Holocaust Or the Witch of Menzie a Poem Illustrative of the Cruelties of Superstition Lays of Palestine and Other Poems To which is Prefixed Enchantment Disenchanted Or a Treatise on Superstition written by George BLAIR (M.A.) and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

Download or read book The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pious Flames

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  • Author : Andrea Major
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Pious Flames written by Andrea Major and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exploring the interconnections between the iconic images and the observers' own preconceptions, Pious Flames traces the changing nature of western responses to sati over three and a half centuries. It situates such responses in the context of the ongoing domestic debates about women, religion, suicide, insanity, and the treatment of the human body."--BOOK JACKET.