The Domination of Strangers

The Domination of Strangers
Author: J. Wilson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781349365333

Offering a major new interpretation of the transformation of political thought and practice in colonial India, The Domination of Strangers traces the origins of modern ideas about the state and Indian civil society to the practical interaction between the British and their south Asian subjects.

Eastern Archipelago

Eastern Archipelago
Author: Great Britain. Hydrographic Department
Publisher:
Total Pages: 626
Release: 1890
Genre: Pilot guides
ISBN:

Thuggee

Thuggee
Author: K. Wagner
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2007-07-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230590209

Based largely on new material, this book examines thuggee as a type of banditry, emerging in a specific socio-economic and geographic context. The British usually described the thugs as fanatic assassins and Kali-worshippers, yet Wagner argues that the history of thuggee need no longer be limited to the study of its representation.

India and the Eastern Seas

India and the Eastern Seas
Author: Alok Tripathi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2007
Genre: Indian Ocean Region
ISBN:

This volume provides latest valuable information about maritime activities on the east coast of India and in the Eastern Seas. On shore excavations at Mahabalipuram in the Bay of Bengal have generated data of scientific and cultural value for the study of shoreline changes and their effect on the coastal monuments. Maritime research in the Bay of Bengal, Malaysia, Cambodia andJapan has also been included.

Orientalism and Race

Orientalism and Race
Author: T. Ballantyne
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2016-01-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230508073

This study traces the emergence and dissemination of Aryanism within the British Empire. The idea of an Aryan race became an important feature of imperial culture in the nineteenth century, feeding into debates in Britain, Ireland, India, and the Pacific. The global reach of the Aryan idea reflected the complex networks that enabled the global reach of British Imperialism. Tony Ballantyne charts the shifting meanings of Aryanism within these 'webs' of Empire.

Money and the End of Empire

Money and the End of Empire
Author: G. Krozewski
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2001-07-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1403919607

This book presents a penetrating new analysis of the end of the empire, located at the intersection of politics, economy and society in Britain and the colonies. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, when political control was feasible, discriminatory management of the colonies sustained Britain's postwar recovery. But synergy turned into conflict as Britain moved towards economic liberalization and financial cosmopolitanism, and found it increasingly difficult to reconcile established relations with emerging priorities. Based on a wide range of archival and other sources, this study relates political and economic developments in Britain and the colonies in original ways to overcome the gulf between peripheralist and Euro-centric explanations of postwar British imperial relations, and helps redress the neglect of the empire in modern international history. Money and the End of Empire will nourish debates in British and international economic and political history and is essential reading for historians of Britain and the empire.

Autobiography, Travel and Postnational Identity

Autobiography, Travel and Postnational Identity
Author: Javed Majeed
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2007-01-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 023028681X

This book examines concepts of travel in the autobiographies of leading Indian nationalists in order to show how nationalism is grounded in notions of individual selfhood, and how the writing of autobiography, fused with the genre of the travelogue, played a key role in formulating the complex tie between interiority and nationality in South Asia.

Politics, Women and Well-Being

Politics, Women and Well-Being
Author: Robin Jeffrey
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349122521

In 1990, Kerala on the southwestern coast has India's lowest infant mortality, longest life expectancy and highest female literacy. India's 'problem state' of the 1950s has become 'the Kerala model'. The collapse of a matrilineal social structure and a rigid caste system contributed to widespread politicization. Women retained a circumscribed but influential position in social life. The result is an instructive analysis for students of politics, development policy and women's issues.

Decolonizing International Health

Decolonizing International Health
Author: S. Amrith
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2006-10-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230627366

This book offers a history of international public health spanning the colonial and post-colonial eras. The volume focuses on India and the transnational networks connecting developments in India with Southeast Asia, and the wider world and contributes to debates on nationalism, internationalism and science in an age of decolonization.