Forging The Raj
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Forging The Raj
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Author : Thomas R. Metcalf
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Forging The Raj written by Thomas R. Metcalf and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
This set of essays written over a span of forty years from 1961 to 2002, examines the structure and working of the British Raj in India during the first half of Crown Rule (1858-1914). The essays are grouped under three general headings: land tenure and land policy, colonial architecture, and migration. Two themes dominate. One is an assessment of what the British thought theu were doing in India, and second, how India ought to be ruled. In these essays, Thomas Metcalf examins British policies towards India and the way the British, as rulers, endeavoured to sustain and legitimate the imperial structure. He also explores the consequences of the ideas and policies as they affected the lives of ordinary Indians, from the landed elite to lowly policemen and labourers. Many of the essays- both those that examine policy and those that assess its consequences- take as a central turning point the revolt of 1857. The essays provide insight into varied ways in which the massive strucutre of the British Raj in India functioned in the heyday of empire. They give the reader some sense of the Raj as a functioning imperial government, and at the same time attempt to critically assess the various strategies that it devised to justify its rule.
Imperial Connections
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Author : Thomas R. Metcalf
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2007-04-24
Imperial Connections written by Thomas R. Metcalf and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-24 with History categories.
"Imperial Connections challenges the Eurocentrism implicit in many accounts of modern European empires. Focusing on the British empire when it was at its zenith, Metcalf analyzes the pivotal role the Raj played in the running of the empire in regions as far flung from one another as, say, Egypt, Uganda, Natal, and the Malay peninsula. This innovative book is a real tour de force from a respected and versatile historian of India."—Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference "As he has done regularly throughout his career, Thomas Metcalf has once again refreshed the study of British imperial history with a bold new perspective. Imperial Connections puts South Asians—soldiers, policemen and labourers—right at the heart of his study."—C.A. Bayly, Cambridge University, author of The Birth of the Modern World "This is a distinctly original study which re-centers colonial power in provocative ways. Metcalf asks a simple question—why were Indians so persistently to be found elsewhere in the British empire, and in such significant numbers? Then elegantly offers answers that force us to re-think the operations of imperial power in critical ways. Wide-ranging, elegantly written, and meticulously researched, Metcalf's is an important and a persuasive study."—Philippa Levine, author of Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire, and forthcoming, The British Empire, Sunrise to Sunset
A Concise History Of Modern India
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Author : Barbara D. Metcalf
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-09-24
A Concise History Of Modern India written by Barbara D. Metcalf and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-24 with History categories.
The third edition of the Metcalfs' classic history of India charts developments across the last twenty years.
Courting Constitutionalism
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Author : Moeen Cheema
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-12-16
Courting Constitutionalism written by Moeen Cheema and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-16 with Law categories.
Presents a deeply contextualized account of public law and judicial review in Pakistan.
Civilizing Missions In Colonial And Postcolonial South Asia
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Author : Carey Anthony Watt
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2011
Civilizing Missions In Colonial And Postcolonial South Asia written by Carey Anthony Watt and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
'Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia' offers a series of analyses that highlights the complexities of British and Indian civilizing missions in original ways and through various historiographical approaches. The book applies the concept of the civilizing mission to a number of issues in the colonial and postcolonial eras in South Asia: economic development, state-building, pacification, nationalism, cultural improvement, gender and generational relations, caste and untouchability, religion and missionaries, class relations, urbanization, NGOs, and civil society.
The Afterlives Of Monuments
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Author : Deborah Cherry
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-09-07
The Afterlives Of Monuments written by Deborah Cherry and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-07 with Social Science categories.
South Asia is famous for its monuments, past and present. Monuments have been created, destroyed and rescued by competing communities and incoming empires in the making and re-making of history, identity and memory. This collection brings together an international cohort of senior scholars and younger researchers to examine the vast diversity of monuments (and conceptions of monuments) in South Asia from the 1850s to the present. The chapters investigate what constitutes a monument, and interrogate the conditions for its survival, demise or recycling. To explore the afterlives of monuments is to investigate how, where, when, and why monuments have been remodelled, re-sited, destroyed, defaced, or abandoned. It is to investigate the theories of memory, history and community, as well as new forms of artistic practice and global media. As different South-Asian communities claim a stake in the making of national, religious, cultural and local identities and histories, the status of monuments and debates about cultural memory have become increasingly urgent. This book was published as a special issue of South Asian Studies.
Between Colonialism And Diaspora
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Author : Tony Ballantyne
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2006-08-16
Between Colonialism And Diaspora written by Tony Ballantyne and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-16 with History categories.
A bold historical reevaluation of constructions of Sikh identity from the late eighteenth century through the early twenty-first.
The Return Of The Mughal Historical Fiction And Despotism In Colonial India 1863 1908
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Author : Alex Padamsee
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-11-03
The Return Of The Mughal Historical Fiction And Despotism In Colonial India 1863 1908 written by Alex Padamsee and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
This Pivot explores the uses of the Mughal past in the historical fiction of colonial India. Through detailed reconsiderations of canonical works by Rudyard Kipling, Flora Annie Steel and Romesh Chunder Dutt, the author argues for a more complex and integral understanding of the part played by the Mughal imaginary in colonial and early Indian nationalist projections of sovereignty. Evoking the rich historical and transnational contexts of these literary narratives, the study demonstrates the ways in which, at successive moments of crisis and contestation in the later Raj, the British Indian state continued to be troubled by its early and profound investments in models of despotism first located by colonial administrators in the figure of the Mughal emperor. At the heart of these political fictions lay the issue of territoriality and the founding problem of a British claim to sole proprietorship of Indian land – a form of Orientalist exceptionalism that at once underpinned and could never fully be integrated with the colonial rule of law. Alongside its recovery of a wealth of popular and often overlooked colonial historiography, The Return of the Mughal emphasises the relevance of theories of political theology – from Carl Schmitt and Ernst Kantorowicz to Talal Asad and Giorgio Agamben – to our understanding of the fictional and jurisprudential histories of colonialism. This study aims to show just how closely the pageantry and romance of empire in India connects to its early politics of terror and even today continues to inform the figure of the Mughal in the sectarian politics of Hindu Nationalism.
Ireland And India
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Author : M. Silvestri
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-10-22
Ireland And India written by M. Silvestri and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-22 with History categories.
Through a consideration of historical memory, commemoration and the 'imagined communities' of nationalism, Ireland and India examines three aspects of Ireland's imperial history: relationships between Irish and Indian nationalists, the construction of Irishmen as imperial heroes, and the commemoration of an Irish regiment's mutiny in India.
Infectious Disease In India 1892 1940
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Author : S. Polu
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-04-17
Infectious Disease In India 1892 1940 written by S. Polu and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-17 with History categories.
Using case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever, this book analyzes how factors such as public health diplomacy, trade, imperial governance, medical technologies, and cultural norms operated within global and colonial conceptions of political and epidemiological risk to shape infectious disease policies in colonial India.