Early Writings on India

Early Writings on India
Author: H.K. Kaul
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2017-04-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351867172

This book, first published in 1975, is a comprehensive list of all the books on India, written in English before 1900. It is an invaluable reference source on India of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Apart from the work of professional writers, there are the writings of a cross-section of society from soldiers to scientists. We find dictionaries of obscure dialects written by government officials, descriptions of their travels by visiting clerics, homely details of everyday life by housewives, as well as technical and scientific works written by scholars.

Lascars and Indian Ocean Seafaring, 1780-1860

Lascars and Indian Ocean Seafaring, 1780-1860
Author: Aaron Jaffer
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783270381

Cases of mutiny and other forms of protest are used to reveal full and interesting details of lascar shipboard life.

The Frontier Complex

The Frontier Complex
Author: Kyle J. Gardner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2021-01-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108882102

Kyle J. Gardner reveals the transformation of the historical Himalayan entrepôt of Ladakh into a modern, disputed borderland through an examination of rare British, Indian, Ladakhi, and Kashmiri archival sources. In so doing, he provides both a history of the rise of geopolitics and the first comprehensive history of Ladakh's encounter with the British Empire. He examines how colonial border-making practices transformed geography into a political science and established principles that a network of imperial frontier experts would apply throughout the empire and bequeath to an independent India. Through analyzing the complex of imperial policies and practices, The Frontier Complex reveals how the colonial state transformed, and was transformed by, new ways of conceiving of territory. Yet, despite a century of attempts to craft a suitable border, the British failed. The result is an imperial legacy still playing out across the Himalayas.

“The” East-India Gazetteer

“The” East-India Gazetteer
Author: Walter Hamilton
Publisher: Arkose Press
Total Pages: 792
Release: 2015-10-16
Genre: History
ISBN:

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