Download or read book The Vanished Raj written by Navaratna Srinivasa Rajaram and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Vanished Raj A Memoir of Princely India written by Rajaram N S and published by Prism Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2019-01-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Child of the Raj written by Rohan and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child of the Raj covers a unique and fascinating period of British and Indian history, as seen through the eyes of someone who lived through it.
Download or read book Raj written by Gita Mehta and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1989 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jaya Singh is the intelligent, beautiful, and compassionate daughter of the Maharajah and Maharani of Balmer. Raised in the thousand-year-old tradition of purdah, a strict regime of seclusion, silence, and submission, Jaya is ill-prepared to assume the role of Regent Maharani of Sirpur upon the death of her decadent, Westernized husband. But Jaya bravely fulfills her duty and soon finds herself thrust into the center of a roiling political battle in which the future of the kingdom is at stake . . . and her own future as well. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Download or read book Raj of the Rani written by Tapti Roy and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They Say In Jhansi That The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Their Town Was Lakshmi Bai&' The 400-Year-Old Town Of Jhansi Still Feels That It Owes Its Fame To A Young Rani Who Ruled For Four-And-A-Half Years. In The Uprising Of 1857 Which Came To Be Known As The First War Of Indian Independence', She Was A Singular Figure In A Gallery Of Heroes. Rani Lakshmi Bai Also Became The Protagonist In A Different Kind Of Story Fiction By British Writers To Dramatize The Horrific Experience Of The Mutiny In Which An Oriental Queen, Full Of Passion, Added A Thrilling Dimension. But Despite An Incredible Career, It Took Eighty Years For Indians To Write A Comprehensive Description Of Rani Lakshmi Bai'S Life. It Was Not Because She Was Forgotten But That People Who Lived In Her Time Did Not Leave Any Writing Behind And The Few Who Knew Her Were Too Afraid Of Reprisals To Profess Links With Her. How Did A Young Marathi Woman Come To Wield So Much Influence In A Strongly Rajput-Dominated Region In The Grip Of An Alien Power? The Life Of The Warrior Queen Has Inspired Historians, Writers And, More Recently, Film-Makers. But For The First Time, In Biographer Tapti Roy'S Vivid Rendition, Lakshmi Bai Is Located Within The Wider Context Of Her Time And Space.
Download or read book Indian National Bibliography written by B. S. Kesavan and published by . This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Out of India written by Michael Foss and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Foss divided his childhood between two worlds: the cold, grey despondent austerity of wartime Britain, and the penetrating but confusing light of India in the period between the war and the Partition that marked the end of the imperial Raj. After the misery of war, spent among grudging English relations or in the harsh hands of a convent school, India in all its strange and fretful glory burst upon the child, leaving an impression never to be lost. in the midst of all this, the composed life of the British Raj continued, the futile rituals of an idealized and long-vanished England maintained in cantonment and hill station - mess night and coffee morning, church and boarding school, cricket and riding to hounds - even as ethnic and religious violence erupted around them.
Download or read book Private Life of an Indian Prince written by Mulk Raj Anand and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Made for Maharajas written by Amin Jaffer and published by Vendome Press. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian princes of the British Raj lived lives of unparalleled opulence and luxury. Made for Maharajas returns readers to that resplendent era, presenting a selection of one-of-a-kind objects crafted to order by the outstanding European luxury goods manufacturers, fashion houses, and decorators of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Here are the custom-designed cars, jewelry, and extraordinary objts dart commissioned by maharajas, nawabs, nizams, and sultans from Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Boucheron, Harry Winston, and others, accompanied by anecdotes that illuminate this sumptuous way of life. Many of the illustrations in this book have never been previously reproduced outside of India, making this not only the first volume of its kind, but a remarkable keepsake that may never be duplicated in our lifetime. The Indian princes of the British Raj lived lives of unparalleled opulence and luxury. Made for Maharajas returns readers to that resplendent era, presenting a selection of one-of-a-kind objects crafted to order by the outstanding European luxury goods manufacturers, fashion houses, and decorators of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Here are the custom-designed cars, jewelry, and extraordinary objts dart commissioned by maharajas, nawabs, nizams, and sultans from Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Boucheron, Harry Winston, and others, accompanied by anecdotes that illuminate this sumptuous way of life. Many of the illustrations in this book have never been previously reproduced outside of India, making this not only the first volume of its kind, but a remarkable keepsake that may never be duplicated in our lifetime.
Download or read book The Raj the Indian Mutiny and the Kingdom of Oudh 1801 1859 written by John Pemble and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maharaja written by Andrew Robinson and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2009 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the annals of world history there are few more striking tales than those of Princely India. The Maharajas became bywords for excess, for lifetimes spent in extravagant expenditure and splendour on an almost unparalleled scale. The Princes, their palaces and feudal loyalties live on, and the full gorgeous spectacle of their life-style is captured for perhaps the last time in the pages of this book. This is very much a visual story, full of dazzling colours: a story of throne rooms with gilded and painted ceilings, crystal fountains and peacocks in terraced gardens, gold and silver treasures, of weddings, celebrations and festivals, and of the Maharajas themselves and their families, in public and in private.
Download or read book OF THE RAJ MAHARAJAS AND ME written by M. A. Sreenivasan and published by . This book was released on 2022-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DeScriPtion M.A. Sreenivasan (1897-1998) lived through almost the entire 20th century, and was among the very few people who witnessed at close quarters the enormous changes that took place in India during this period. Born in Madras, he belonged to a family that traced its origins to a disciple and associate of the great sage Ramanuja. Subsequent generations were Pradhans (ministers) of successive kings of Mysore for 150 years. Sreenivasan himself joined the Mysore Civil Service in 1918 and, after a varied career both with the Mysore Government and the Government of British India, became a Pradhan of the Maharaja of Mysore in 1943. In 1947 he was invited by the Maharaja of Gwalior to become the Dewan of that State. During that momentous year he was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India and in regular touch with many of the leading figures (including Mountbatten) involved in the transfer of power from British to Indian hands. Much more than an autobiography, Of the Raj, Maharajas and Me is also a rare portrait of India during and immediately after the British Raj. The former princely States of India have been neglected by scholars, many of whom have tended to be unfairly critical. There is much in this book on the effectiveness of administration in two major princely States, which redresses the balance and makes the book a valuable document on the subject. Further, Sreenivasan provides sharp insights on the negotiations that led to the end of the Raj, and on the new polity that emerged after Independence. This absorbing book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of modern Indian history
Download or read book Children of the Raj written by Vyvyen Brendon and published by Phoenix House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vyvyen Brendon's evocative, at times heart-tugging book, runs from the 18th century and the East India Company, through the Afghan wars, the Indian mutiny and the more settled era of the Queen Empress, and culminates in the conflict leading to Britain's hurried exit in 1947. Its subject is the young progeny of traders, soldiers, civil servants, missionaries, planters, engineers and what should be done with them. Until the coming of air travel these children often only saw their parents every few years. Then there were the children born of Anglo-Indian marriages and affairs. Sent back to Britain they were often reviled as 'darkies', 'a touch of the tar-brush'. And then there were the children educated in India. Brendon reveals appalling stories of abuse at the hands of servants. What frequently unites Brendon's wildly different subjects is their loneliness--drawing on letters, diaries, memoirs and interviews, she portrays children who had to discipline themselves to adapt (often ingeniously) to unfamiliar cultures, far away from family and forced to spend termtime in boarding schools and holidays with unfamiliar families.
Download or read book Indian Tales of the Raj written by Zareer Masani and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As rich and varied as India itself, these accounts bring to the reader the Indian perspective on the British Raj. Included are the memories and experiences of more than fifty Indian men and women who worked under the British, made friends with them, and then fought to throw them out. They describe the role of apprentice under the sahibs, the complex racial barriers that divided the rulers from the ruled, the Western education which eventually encouraged rebellion, and the ways in which liberal British political arguments were turned against the Raj by nationalist campaigns to force the British to quit India.
Download or read book Private Life of an Indian Prince written by Mulk Raj Anand and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daughters of the Empire written by Iris Macfarlane and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iris Macfarlane's account of four generations of women who lived between India and Britain from the 1840s to 1960s is more than a personal history of Iris, her mother Violet, her grand-mother Annie and great-grand mother Maria. It encapsulates ..a virtual social history of English life in India.
Download or read book Raj written by Gita Mehta and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born a princess of the Royal Household of Balmer, Jaya Singh is torn between the traditions of her upbringing and the ideals of the Mahatma, as India draws inexorably towards the bloody struggle for independence from the British Raj. To fulfil her role as the guardian of the people, Jaya must first win her own freedom - then lead her kingdom through treacherous changes of history to the moment when palace and country will triumph over destiny. Grounded in details of ancient royal tradition and Hindu ritual, Jaya's story counterpoints a vanished way of life against the complex political realities involved in the passing of the Raj and the birth of the modern nations of India and Pakistan.
