Download or read book John Jacob of Jacobabad written by H. T. Lambrick and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political biography of the British General JOhn Jacob, 1812-1858, founder of the Jacobabad District (Pakistan), formerly known as the Upper Sind Frontier District.
Download or read book The Chartist General written by Edward Beasley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Charles James Napier was sent to confront the tens of thousands of Chartist protestors marching through the cities of the North of England in the late 1830s. A well-known leftist who agreed with the Chartist demands for democracy, Napier managed to keep the peace. In South Asia, the same man would later provoke a war and conquer Sind. In this first-ever scholarly biography of Napier, Edward Beasley asks how the conventional depictions of the man as a peacemaker in England and a warmonger in Asia can be reconciled. Employing deep archival research and close readings of Napier's published books (ignored by prior scholars), this well-written volume demonstrates that Napier was a liberal imperialist who believed that if freedom was right for the people of England it was right for the people of Sind -- even if "freedom" had to be imposed by military force. Napier also confronted the messy aftermath of Western conquest, carrying out nation-building with mixed success, trying to end the honour killing of women, and eventually discovering the limits of imperial interference.
Download or read book A History of the British Cavalry 1816 1850 Volume 1 written by The Marquess of Anglesey and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1993-09-14 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In-depth coverage of the Charge of the Light Brigade, and the numerous colonial campaigns of the period.
Download or read book The Lords of Human Kind written by Victor Kiernan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When European explorers went out into the world to open up trade routes and establish colonies, they brought back much more than silks and spices, cotton and tea. Inevitably, they came into contact with the peoples of other parts of the world and formed views of them occasionally admiring, more often hostile or contemptuous. Using a stunning array of sources - missionaries' memoirs, the letters of diplomats' wives, explorers' diaries and the work of writers as diverse as Voltaire, Thackeray, Oliver Goldsmith and, of course, Kipling - Victor Kiernan teases out the full range of European attitudes to other peoples. Erudite, ironic and global in its scope, The Lords of Human Kind has been a major influence on a generation of historians and cultural critics and is a landmark in the history of Eurocentrism.
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Download or read book A History of the British Cavalry 1816 1919 written by Lord Anglesey and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1993-09-14 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In-depth coverage of the Charge of the Light Brigade, and the numerous colonial campaigns of the period.
Download or read book Landlord Power and Rural Indebtedness in Colonial Sind written by David Cheesman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the alliance between the British administration and the Muslim landed magnates who dominated the countryside and provides valuable insights into the emergence of the elite's governing Pakistan today.
Download or read book Sniping in the Great War written by Martin Pegler and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A military history analyzing the evolution of sniper warfare during WWI by the firearms expert and author of Eastern Front Sniper. From the sharpshooters of the American Civil War to Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, military snipers are legendary for their marksmanship and effectiveness in battle. The specialized role of the sniper developed among the ranks of the British Army over the course of World War I. As Martin Pegler shows in this wide-ranging study, the technique of sniping adapted rapidly to the conditions of static warfare that prevailed through much of the conflict. Pegler’s account follows the development of sniping from the early battles of 1914, through the trench fighting and the attritional offensives of the middle years, to the renewed open warfare of 1918. Focusing on the British and German sniping war on the western front, Pegler also looks at how snipers operated at Gallipoli, Salonika, and on the Eastern Front. He also covers sniper training, fieldcraft, and counter-sniping measures in detail. Sniping in the Great War includes a full reference section detailing the sniping rifles of the period and assessing their effectiveness in combat. Also featured are vivid memoirs and eyewitness accounts that offer insight into the lethal skill of Great War snipers and their deadly trade.
Download or read book Honour and Violence written by Nafisa Shah and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of karo kari allows family, especially fathers, brothers and sons, to take the lives of their daughters, sisters and mothers if they are accused of adultery. This volume examines the central position of karo kari in the social, political and juridical structures in Upper Sindh, Pakistan. Drawing connections between local contests over marriage and resources, Nafisa Shah unearths deep historical processes and power relations. In particular, she explores how the state justice system and informal mediations inform each other in state responses to karo kari, and how modern law is implicated in this seemingly ancient cultural practice.
Download or read book The Frontier in British India written by Thomas Simpson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Simpson provides an innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power and knowledge developed at the territorial fringes of colonial India during the nineteenth century. Through critical interventions in a wide range of theoretical and historiographical fields, he speaks to historians of empire and science, anthropologists, and geographers alike. The Frontier in British India provides the first connected and comparative analysis of frontiers in northwest and northeast India and draws on visual and written materials from an array of archives across the subcontinent and the UK. Colonial interventions in frontier spaces and populations were, it shows, enormously destructive but also prone to confusion and failure on their own terms. British frontier administrators did not merely suffer 'turbulent' frontiers, but actively worked to generate and uphold these regions as spaces of governmental and scientific exception. Accordingly, India's frontiers became crucial spaces of imperial practice and imagination throughout the nineteenth century.
Download or read book John Company s Last War written by Barbara English and published by London : Collins. This book was released on 1971 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Is About The East India Company`S War Against Persia In 1856. It Goes Into The Causes Which Led To This War And The Results Thereof. The Core Of The Book Is Description Of Unreformed Victorian Military On Which The Empire So Precariously Depended. An Existing Fascinating Account.
Download or read book The Pakistan Archives written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book War and State Building in Afghanistan written by Scott Gates and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mughals, British and Soviets all failed to subjugate Afghanistan, failures which offer valuable lessons for today. Taking a long historical perspective from 1520 to 2012, this volume examines the Mughal, British, Soviet and NATO efforts in Afghanistan, drawing on new archives and a synthesis of previous counter-insurgency experiences. Special emphasis is given to ecology, terrain and logistics to explain sub-conventional operations and state-building in Afghanistan. War and State-Building in Modern Afghanistan provides an overall synthesis of British, Russian, American and NATO military activities in Afghanistan, which directly links past experiences to the current challenges. These timely essays are particularly relevant to contemporary debates about NATO's role in Afghanistan; do the war and state-building policies currently employed by NATO forces undercut or enhance a political solution? The essays in this volume introduce new historical perspectives on this debate, and will prove illuminating reading for students and scholars interested in military history, the history of warfare, international relations and comparative politics.
Download or read book Strategies of British India written by Malcolm Yapp and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indus Age written by Gregory L. Possehl and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Part Four is a culture history of the peoples of the Indus Age from the beginnings of food production and domestication of plants and animals to the threshold of civilization in the region."--BOOK JACKET.
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