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Book Indigo Plantations and Science in Colonial India

Download or read book Indigo Plantations and Science in Colonial India written by Prakash Kumar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prakash Kumar documents the history of agricultural indigo, exploring the effects of nineteenth-century globalisation on this colonial industry. Charting the indigo culture from the early modern period to the twentieth century, Kumar discusses how knowledge of indigo culture thrived among peasant traditions on the Indian subcontinent in the early modern period and was then developed by Caribbean planters and French naturalists who codified this knowledge into widely disseminated texts. European planters who settled in Bengal with the establishment of British rule in the late eighteenth century drew on this information. From the nineteenth century, indigo culture became more modern, science-based and expert driven, and with the advent of a cheaper, purer synthetic indigo in 1897, indigo science crossed paths with the colonial state's effort to develop a science for agricultural development. Only at the end of the First World War, when the industrial use of synthetic indigo for textile dyeing and printing became almost universal, did the indigo industry's optimism fade away.

Book Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists

Download or read book Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists written by Society of Dyers and Colourists and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all interested in the use or manufacture of colours, and in calico printing, bleaching, etc.

Book History of Science  Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization  pt  1  Science  technology  imperialism and war

Download or read book History of Science Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization pt 1 Science technology imperialism and war written by Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Materiality of Color

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrea Feeser
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9781409429159
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book The Materiality of Color written by Andrea Feeser and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this essay collection is to recover color's complex and sometimes morally troubling past. By emphasising color's materiality, and how it was produced, exchanged and used, contributors draw attention to the disjuncture between the beauty of color and the blood, sweat, and tears that went into its production, circulation and application as well as to the complicated and varied social meanings attached to color within specific historical and social contexts.

Book The Blue Mutiny

    Book Details:
  • Author : Blair B. Kling
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2016-11-11
  • ISBN : 1512803502
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book The Blue Mutiny written by Blair B. Kling and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Book Science and Modern India  An Institutional History  c 1784 1947  Project of History of Science  Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization  Volume XV  Part 4

Download or read book Science and Modern India An Institutional History c 1784 1947 Project of History of Science Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization Volume XV Part 4 written by Das Gupta and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 1900 with total page 1230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science and Modern India: An Institutional History, c.1784-1947: Project of History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, Volume XV, Part 4 comprises chapters contributed by eminent scholars. It discusses the historical background of the establishment of science institutes that were established in pre-Independence India, and still exist, their functions and their present status. This volume discusses Indian science institutes that specialize in a particular field. It also delves into the area of engineering sciences.

Book The Baramahal Records

Download or read book The Baramahal Records written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth Century India

Download or read book The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth Century India written by Rolf Bauer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 Michael Mitterauer-Prize for best monograph The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India is a pioneering work about the more than one million peasants who produced opium for the colonial state in nineteenth-century India. Based on a profound empirical analysis, Rolf Bauer not only shows that the peasants cultivated poppy against a substantial loss but he also reveals how they were coerced into the production of this drug. By dissecting the economic and social power relations on a local level, this study explains how a triangle of debt, the colonial state’s power and social dependencies in the village formed the coercive mechanisms that transformed the peasants into opium producers. The result is a book that adds to our understanding of peasant economies in a colonial context.

Book The Political Economy of Indigo in India  1580 1930

Download or read book The Political Economy of Indigo in India 1580 1930 written by Ghulam A. Nadri and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Political Economy of Indigo in India, 1580-1930: A Global Perspective Ghulam A. Nadri explores the dynamics of the indigo industry and trade from a long-term perspective and examines the local and global forces that affected the potentialities of production in India and elsewhere and caused periods of boom and slump in the industry. Using the commodity chains conceptual framework he examines the stages in the trajectory of indigo from production to consumption. Nadri shows convincingly that the growth or decline in indigo production and trade in India was a part of the global processes of production, trade, and consumption and that indigo as a global commodity was embedded in the politics of empire and colonial expansion.

Book The Baramahal Records

Download or read book The Baramahal Records written by Madras (India : Presidency) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book REPORT ON THE CULTIVATION AND MANUFACTURE OF INDIGO IN BENGAL  1899

Download or read book REPORT ON THE CULTIVATION AND MANUFACTURE OF INDIGO IN BENGAL 1899 written by CHRISTOPHER. RAWSON and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Linking Destinies

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  • Author : Peter Boomgaard
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2008-01-01
  • ISBN : 9004253998
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Linking Destinies written by Peter Boomgaard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade flows, cities and kinship relations can all be seen as elements of complex networks. In this collection of essays, all of which deal with Asia, we argue that there are good reasons to envisage them as various dimensions of the same networks. Nevertheless, it is fairly rare to find trade, cities and kinship relations as intimately linked as we have portrayed them in this volume, because they are usually classified within different sub-disciplines of history, whose practitioners are all too often not inclined to talk to people outside their own field. The Australian born historian Heather Sutherland, who recently retired from the VU university in Amsterdam, is an exception in this respect because most of her work gravitates towards an approach which aims to integrate this trinity of topics. This collection of essays, written by a number of her students and close colleagues, has taken its cue from her approach. It is not the case that all the contributions deal with all three topics but they as a collective demonstrate how flows of trade, cities—both as urban centres and nodes in wider networks—and kinship relations hang together, and how the study of one topic opens new vistas on the other two, revealing causal links that otherwise would have remained hidden. Thus, the essays in this collective volume support the idea that trade, towns and kin—although often dealt with quite separately—can be viewed as various aspects of the same networks, connecting people, places and commodities.

Book A Dictionary of Arts  Manufactures  and Mines

Download or read book A Dictionary of Arts Manufactures and Mines written by Andrew Ure and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dictionary of Arts  Manufactures  and Mines

Download or read book A Dictionary of Arts Manufactures and Mines written by Andrew Ure and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1858. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Book Parliamentary Papers

Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons

Download or read book Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: