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Book Gazetteer of the Chenab Colony

Download or read book Gazetteer of the Chenab Colony written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imperial Gazetteer of India

Download or read book Imperial Gazetteer of India written by James Sutherland Cotton and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imperial Gazetteer of India

Download or read book Imperial Gazetteer of India written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Punjab District and State Gazetteers

Download or read book Punjab District and State Gazetteers written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Punjab Under Imperialism  1885 1947

Download or read book The Punjab Under Imperialism 1885 1947 written by Imran Ali and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Punjab--an area now divided between Pakistan and India--experienced significant economic growth under British rule from the second half of the nineteenth century. This expansion was founded on the construction of an extensive network of canals in the western parts of the province. The ensuing agricultural settlement transformed the previously barren area into one of the most important regions of commercial agriculture in South Asia. Nevertheless, Imran Ali argues that colonial strategy distorted the development of what came to be called the "bread basket" of the Indian subcontinent. This comprehensive survey of British rule in the Punjab demonstrates that colonial policy making led to many of the socio-economic and political problems currently plaguing Pakistan and Indian Punjab. Subordinating developmental goals to its political and military imperatives, the colonial state cooperated with the dominant social classes, the members of which became the major beneficiaries of agricultural colonization. Even while the rulers tried to use the vast resources of the Punjab to advance imperial purposes, they were themselves being used by their collaborators to advance implacable private interests. Such processes effectively retarded both nationalism and social change and resulted in the continued backwardness of the region even after the departure of the British. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Making Lahore Modern

    Book Details:
  • Author : William J. Glover
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1452913382
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Making Lahore Modern written by William J. Glover and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after the British annexed the Punjab and made Lahore its provincial capital, the city—once a prosperous Mughal center that had long since fallen into ruin—was transformed. British and Indian officials had designed a modern, architecturally distinct city center adjacent to the old walled city, administered under new methods of urban governance. In Making Lahore Modern, William J. Glover investigates the traditions that shaped colonial Lahore. In particular, he focuses on the conviction that both British and Indian actors who implemented urbanization came to share: that the material fabric of the city could lead to social and moral improvement. This belief in the power of the physical environment to shape individual and collective sentiments, he argues, links the colonial history of Lahore to nineteenth-century urbanization around the world. Glover highlights three aspects of Lahore’s history that show this process unfolding. First, he examines the concepts through which the British understood the Indian city and envisioned its transformation. Second, through a detailed study of new buildings and the adaptation of existing structures, he explores the role of planning, design, and reuse. Finally, he analyzes the changes in urban imagination as evidenced in Indian writings on the city in this period. Throughout, Glover emphasizes that colonial urbanism was not simply imposed; it was a collaborative project between Indian citizens and the British. Offering an in-depth study of a single provincial city, Glover reveals that urban change in colonial India was not a monolithic process and establishes Lahore as a key site for understanding the genealogy of modern global urbanism. William J. Glover is associate professor of architecture at the University of Michigan.

Book Pakistan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anatol Lieven
  • Publisher : PublicAffairs
  • Release : 2012-03-06
  • ISBN : 1610391624
  • Pages : 594 pages

Download or read book Pakistan written by Anatol Lieven and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million people, a 500,000-man army, nuclear weapons, and a large diaspora in Britain and North America, Pakistan is central to the hopes of jihadis and the fears of their enemies. Yet the greatest short-term threat to Pakistan is not Islamist insurgency as such, but the actions of the United States, and the greatest long-term threat is ecological change. Anatol Lieven's book is a magisterial investigation of this highly complex and often poorly understood country: its regions, ethnicities, competing religious traditions, varied social landscapes, deep political tensions, and historical patterns of violence; but also its surprising underlying stability, rooted in kinship, patronage, and the power of entrenched local elites. Engagingly written, combining history and profound analysis with reportage from Lieven's extensive travels as a journalist and academic, Pakistan: A Hard Country is both utterly compelling and deeply revealing.

Book The Pakistan Gazetteer

Download or read book The Pakistan Gazetteer written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal

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  • Author : Manchester Geographical Society
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1907
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Journal written by Manchester Geographical Society and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society

Download or read book Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal

    Book Details:
  • Author : Asiatic Society of Bombay
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1908
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1084 pages

Download or read book Journal written by Asiatic Society of Bombay and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society

Download or read book Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society written by Asiatic Society of Bombay and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay

Download or read book Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Christians of Pakistan

Download or read book The Christians of Pakistan written by Linda Walbridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1998, John Joseph, the first native Pakistani Catholic bishop, shot himself in front of the courthouse where a Christian had been sentenced to death for blasphemy. This book tells the story of the Christians in Pakistan, with Bishop Joseph as its centrepiece. It is an account of outcastes who sought hope through Christianity, but who now find themselves victims of a struggle to define Islam in Pakistan. The majority of Pakistani Christians are descendants of untouchables converted to Christianity in the late 19th century. In Pakistan a minority religion is linked with low status, perpetuating the Indian Hindu caste system even though the Muslim majority has disassociated itself from all things Hindu and Indian. The book also deals with enculturation in the Pakistani church, the rise of native clergy, conflicts between the local church and Rome, the rise of 'fundamentalist' Islam and the position of women in society and church.

Book Constructing Post Colonial India

Download or read book Constructing Post Colonial India written by Sanjay Srivastava and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary and engaging book which looks at the nature of Indian society since Independence and unpacks what post-colonialism means to Indian citizens. Using the case study of the Doon School, a famous boarding school for boys, and one of the leading educational institutions in India, the author argues that to be post-colonial in India is to be modern, rational, secular and urban. In placing post-colonialism in this concrete social context, and analysing how it is constructed, the author renders a complex and often rather abstract subject accessible.

Book Blood and Water

Download or read book Blood and Water written by David Gilmartin and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book is a history of the political and environmental transformation of the Indus basin as a result of the modern construction of the world's largest, integrated irrigation system. Begun under British colonial rule in the 19th century, this transformation continued after the region was divided between two new states, India and Pakistan, in 1947. Massive irrigation works have turned an arid region into one of dense agricultural population, but its political legacies continue to shape the politics and statecraft of the region"--Provided by publisher.

Book Religious Transformation in South Asia

Download or read book Religious Transformation in South Asia written by Christopher Harding and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the phenomenon of mass conversion to Christianity amongst oppressed rural peoples in late colonial India, Religious Transformation in South Asia looks at what lay behind the social and religious aspirations of converts and mission personnel.