Download or read book A People s Collector in the British Raj written by Brian Stoddart and published by Readworthy. This book was released on 2011 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chaos of Empire written by Jon Wilson and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular image of the British Raj-an era of efficient but officious governors, sycophantic local functionaries, doting amahs, blisteringly hot days and torrid nights-chronicled by Forster and Kipling is a glamorous, nostalgic, but entirely fictitious. In this dramatic revisionist history, Jon Wilson upends the carefully sanitized image of unity, order, and success to reveal an empire rooted far more in violence than in virtue, far more in chaos than in control. Through the lives of administrators, soldiers, and subjects-both British and Indian-The Chaos of Empire traces Britain's imperial rule from the East India Company's first transactions in the 1600s to Indian Independence in 1947. The Raj was the most public demonstration of a state's ability to project power far from home, and its perceived success was used to justify interventions around the world in the years that followed. But the Raj's institutions-from law courts to railway lines-were designed to protect British power without benefiting the people they ruled. This self-serving and careless governance resulted in an impoverished people and a stifled society, not a glorious Indian empire. Jon Wilson's new portrait of a much-mythologized era finally and convincingly proves that the story of benign British triumph was a carefully concocted fiction, here thoroughly and totally debunked.
Download or read book Edge of Empire written by Maya Jasanoff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers the extraordinary stories of collectors who lived on the frontiers of the British Empire in India and Egypt, tracing their exploits to tell an intimate history of imperialism. Jasanoff delves beneath the grand narratives of power, exploitation, and resistance to look at the British Empire through the eyes of the people caught up in it. Written and researched on four continents, Edge of Empire enters a world where people lived, loved, mingled, and identified with one another in ways richer and more complex than previous accounts have led us to believe were possible. And as this book demonstrates, traces of that world remain tangible—and topical—today. An innovative, persuasive, and provocative work of history.
Download or read book Furniture from British India and Ceylon written by Amin Jaffer and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference for collectors, dealers, and scholars discusses colonial Indian furniture and the material culture of British India, in which local craftsmen used their skills to adapt to Western styles, producing a hybrid form which is in some ways typically English but unmistakably Indian. The four chapters by Jaffer (research fellow, Victoria and Albert Museum) provide a contextual background and discuss life in early British India, furnishings and the domestic interior, the availability and acquisition of furniture, and the Indian consumption of Western furniture and decorative articles. The catalogue contains color and b & w illustrations of 200 pieces from the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum, accompanied by descriptions, historical details, and notes on provenance, literature, exhibitions, and other relevant facts. Oversize: 9.5x11.25". Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The History of British India written by James Mill and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Law Reports of British India written by M. Subramaniam and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Law of India written by Andrew Lyon and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unrepealed and Unexpired Acts of the Legislative Council of India from 1834 1871 72 Inclusive written by George Smoult Fagan and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All India Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1-36, 1914-1949, 1999- issued in separate parts, called sections, e.g. Journal section, Federal Court section, Privy Council section, Allahabad section, Bombay section, etc.
Download or read book Who Was Who in British India written by John F. Riddick and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1998-07-23 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 5,000 entries, this book provides information on the men and women who played a significant role in British India from 1583 to 1947. In addition to military and governmental leaders, the book includes entries on leaders in business, the church and missions, art and literature, and science and medicine. An effort has also been made to include the women who played an important role in India. The only other reference work on the subject, Buckland's Dictionary of Indian Biography, was published in 1906. This book updates that work, covering the last 40 years of the British Raj, and provides more balanced coverage of types of leaders.
Download or read book Criminal Procedure in British India written by Sir John George Woodroffe and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mining Laws of the British Empire and of Foreign Countries written by Gilbert Stone and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Woodroffe and Ameer Ali s Law of Evidence Applicable to British India written by India and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
