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Book Thomas Munro and the Development of Administrative Policy in Madras  1792 1818

Download or read book Thomas Munro and the Development of Administrative Policy in Madras 1792 1818 written by T. H. Beaglehole and published by Cambridge, Eng. U. P. This book was released on 1966 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thomas Munro and the Development of Administrative Policy in Madras 1792 1818

Download or read book Thomas Munro and the Development of Administrative Policy in Madras 1792 1818 written by T. H. Beaglehole and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Beaglehole gives a detailed chronological study of Munro's administrative career up to 1820, when he was appointed Governor of Madras. This 1966 book discusses the background to Munro's ideas on administration and shows that similar ideas came to be adopted by the East India Company's governing body in London.

Book South Asian History  1750 1950

Download or read book South Asian History 1750 1950 written by Margaret Case and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a major bibliographic research guide designed to assist scholars of South Asian history (India, Pakistan, and Nepal) in finding materials relevant to their research. It offers an annotated and indexed list of over 5,000 articles from 351 periodicals and 26 books of collected essays and encyclopedias. It lists 341 English and bilingual English-vernacular newspapers, and 251 vernacular papers published in South Asia, all with pertinent information. It also provides an extensive unified list of dissertations for degrees in modern South Asian history from South Asian, European, and American universities. About 3,100 of the entries are annotated. Originally published in 1968. 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 Thomas Munro

Download or read book Thomas Munro written by Burton Stein and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Munro was among the most important of British thinker-administrators who shaped imperial rule in India. He was the creator, in the early nineteenth century, of the revenue and administrative system of two vast territories that were controlled by colonial authority from Madras andBombay, and his life stands even today as a symbol of the more thoughtful and humane aspects of foreign rule over India. This scholarly biography draws for the first time upon the full range, hitherto unavailable, of the Munro papers to present a revealing insight into the intellectual basis ofearly colonialism, and the influence of Thomas Munro in the shaping of British policy.

Book Judiciary and Police in Early Colonial South Kanara  1799 1862

Download or read book Judiciary and Police in Early Colonial South Kanara 1799 1862 written by N. Shyam Bhat and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future

Download or read book Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future written by Tobias Wolffhardt and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British East India Company consolidated its rule over India, evolving from a trading venture to a colonial administrative force. Yet its territorial gains far outpaced its understanding of the region and the people who lived there, and its desperate efforts to gain knowledge of the area led to the 1815 appointment of army officer Colin Mackenzie as the first Surveyor General of India. This volume carefully reconstructs the life and career of Mackenzie, showing how the massive survey of India that he undertook became one of the most spectacular and wide-ranging knowledge production initiatives in British colonial history.

Book A History of Modern India  1480 1950

Download or read book A History of Modern India 1480 1950 written by Claude Markovits and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive chronological analysis of India's vibrant and diverse history.

Book Mapping an Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew H. Edney
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2009-02-15
  • ISBN : 0226184862
  • Pages : 481 pages

Download or read book Mapping an Empire written by Matthew H. Edney and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain used modern survey techniques to not only create and define the spatial image of its Empire, but also to legitimate its colonialist activities. "There is much to be praised in this book. It is an excellent history of how India came to be painted red in the nineteenth century. But more importantly, Mapping an Empire sets a new standard for books that examine a fundamental problem in the history of European imperialism."—D. Graham Burnett, Times Literary Supplement "Mapping an Empire is undoubtedly a major contribution to the rapidly growing literature on science and empire, and a work which deserves to stimulate a great deal of fresh thinking and informed research."—David Arnold, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History "This case study offers broadly applicable insights into the relationship between ideology, technology and politics. . . . Carefully read, this is a tale of irony about wishful thinking and the limits of knowledge."—Publishers Weekly

Book Ironies of Colonial Governance

Download or read book Ironies of Colonial Governance written by James Jaffe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of the international circulation of ideas and practices of law and governance in colonial India.

Book Colonialism  Orientalism and the Dravidian Languages

Download or read book Colonialism Orientalism and the Dravidian Languages written by K. Venkateswarlu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dravidian language family is marked historically by a protracted struggle between Tamil and its aggressively assertive supremacy, and the consequent peripheralizing of other majoritarian languages of the region. This book looks at the development of Telugu — with its unique grammatical and lexical tradition as instrumental in the construction of the concept of the Dravidian language family in 1816, and in the development of comparative linguistics since that time. The author’s arguments locate Telugu in multiple matrices: of historical and theoretical Orientalism; the colonial state’s interest in native languages; the politics of state patronage; questions of cultural assimilation and divergence; the overbearing presence of Tamil and its literary traditions; and the related inter- and intra-civilizational dialogues. The book thus grapples with the tortured emergence of Telugu — a product of the dynamics of Andhra society, economy, polity and culture influenced and driven by Muslim, Hindu and Western influence. With its richly textured narrative, this book will be of interest to those in the fields of history, sociology, socio-linguistics, colonial studies, and literature, apart from the generally interested reader.

Book Annotated Bibliography on the Economic History of India  1500 A D  to 1947 A D

Download or read book Annotated Bibliography on the Economic History of India 1500 A D to 1947 A D written by Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Liberalism  Imperialism  and the Historical Imagination

Download or read book Liberalism Imperialism and the Historical Imagination written by Theodore Koditschek and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways in which imperial agendas informed the writing of history in nineteenth-century Britain and how historical writing transformed imperial agendas. Using the published writings and personal papers of Walter Scott, J. A. Froude, James Mill, Rammohun Roy, T. B. Macaulay, E. A. Freeman, W. E. Gladstone, and J. R. Seeley among others, Theodore Koditschek sheds light on the role of the historical imagination in the establishment and legitimation of liberal imperialism. He shows how both imperialists and the imperialized were drawn to reflect back on the Empire's past as a result of the need to construct a modern, multi-national British imperial identity for a more economically expansive and enlightened present. By tracing the imperial lives and historical works of these pivotal figures, Theodore Koditschek illuminates the ways in which discourse altered practice, and vice versa, as well as how the history of Empire was continuously written and re-written.

Book The Business of Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : H. V. Bowen
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2005-12-22
  • ISBN : 1139447882
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book The Business of Empire written by H. V. Bowen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Business of Empire assesses the domestic impact of British imperial expansion by analysing what happened in Britain following the East India Company's acquisition of a vast territorial empire in South Asia. Drawing on a mass of hitherto unused material contained in the company's administrative and financial records, the book offers a reconstruction of the inner workings of the company as it made the remarkable transition from business to empire during the late-eighteenth century. H. V. Bowen profiles the company's stockholders and directors and examines how those in London adapted their methods, working practices, and policies to changing circumstances in India. He also explores the company's multifarious interactions with the domestic economy and society, and sheds important new light on its substantial contributions to the development of Britain's imperial state, public finances, military strength, trade and industry. This book will appeal to all those interested in imperial, economic and business history.

Book The Imperial Nation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Josep M. Fradera
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2021-06-08
  • ISBN : 0691217343
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book The Imperial Nation written by Josep M. Fradera and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the legacy of monarchical empires shaped Britain, France, Spain, and the United States as they became liberal entities Historians view the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a turning point when imperial monarchies collapsed and modern nations emerged. Treating this pivotal moment as a bridge rather than a break, The Imperial Nation offers a sweeping examination of four of these modern powers—Great Britain, France, Spain, and the United States—and asks how, after the great revolutionary cycle in Europe and America, the history of monarchical empires shaped these new nations. Josep Fradera explores this transition, paying particular attention to the relations between imperial centers and their sovereign territories and the constant and changing distinctions placed between citizens and subjects. Fradera argues that the essential struggle that lasted from the Seven Years’ War to the twentieth century was over the governance of dispersed and varied peoples: each empire tried to ensure domination through subordinate representation or by denying any representation at all. The most common approach echoed Napoleon’s “special laws,” which allowed France to reinstate slavery in its Caribbean possessions. The Spanish and Portuguese constitutions adopted “specialness” in the 1830s; the United States used comparable guidelines to distinguish between states, territories, and Indian reservations; and the British similarly ruled their dominions and colonies. In all these empires, the mix of indigenous peoples, European-origin populations, slaves and indentured workers, immigrants, and unassimilated social groups led to unequal and hierarchical political relations. Fradera considers not only political and constitutional transformations but also their social underpinnings. Presenting a fresh perspective on the ways in which nations descended and evolved from and throughout empires, The Imperial Nation highlights the ramifications of this entangled history for the subjects who lived in its shadows.

Book East India Company and South Indian Economy

Download or read book East India Company and South Indian Economy written by Challa Ramachandran and published by Madras (9, Second Main Road, Madras-600028) : New Era Publications. This book was released on 1980 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On land revenue, agriculture, irrigation, banking, and communications in the Madras Presidency during 1784-1858.

Book The Politics of Informal Justice

Download or read book The Politics of Informal Justice written by Richard L. Abel and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Informal Justice

Book The Oxford History of the British Empire  Historiography

Download or read book The Oxford History of the British Empire Historiography written by Robin W. Winks and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the shape and the development of scholarly and popular opinion about the British Empire over the centuries.