The Girmitiya Saga

The Girmitiya Saga
Author: Giriraj Kishore
Publisher: Niyogi Books
Total Pages: 669
Release: 2010-03-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 8189738453

This book retraces the socio-political background of 19th and 20th-century South Africa, highlighting the importance of Mohandas Gandhi’s actions in South Africa. On the longlist of the Vodafone Crossword Book Award 2010.

SSC CGL SUCCESS SERIES GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

SSC CGL SUCCESS SERIES GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
Author: Editorial Board
Publisher: Kalinjar Publications
Total Pages: 85
Release:
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 9382732209

Extremely useful for Staff Selection Commission CGL, CHSL, Govt Recruitment Exams

Tracing Gandhi

Tracing Gandhi
Author: Samir Banerjee
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2019-06-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000084752

This book traces the journey of Mahatma Gandhi, from being a simple and truth-seeking human being, a satyarthi, to a committed, conscious and social human being, a satyagrahi. It specifically looks at this critical transformation during the time Gandhi was in South Africa. The central argument of the book is that Gandhi evolved from being a satyarthi to a satyagrahi in South Africa. Subsequently in India, he consolidated his orientation with an emphasis on praxis, by developing his ideas as instruments for social and individual struggles. Marked by a series of events, this period was an intense quest of self-realization and understanding, and shows his journey from being Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to being Mahatma Gandhi. The book discusses various elements of Gandhian thought and praxis – morality, wisdom, non-violence, truth, social justice, dharma, trusteeship, education, sarvodaya, Hind Swaraj, swadeshi, and social service – and interprets the relevance of Gandhi’s thought in the modern world by highlighting its unique significance for social transformation and change. Lucid and accessible, the book will be useful to scholars and researchers of Gandhi studies, Indian political thought, modern Indian history, and political studies.

General Knowledge MANUAL 2017

General Knowledge MANUAL 2017
Author: Editorial Board
Publisher: Kalinjar Publications
Total Pages: 273
Release:
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9351721132

General Knowledge MANUAL 2017 Tags: UPSC, IAS, CSAT, Civil Services, SSC, IBPS, RRB, PCS, CDS, NDA, CBSE, Govt Jobs Exams.

General Knowledge 2017

General Knowledge 2017
Author: Editorial Board
Publisher: Kalinjar Publications
Total Pages: 152
Release:
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 9351721124

General Awareness & GK Book. useful for UPSC, IAS,Civil Services, SSC, IBPS, RRB, PCS, CDS, NDA, CBSE, Govt Jobs Exams.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE MANUAL 2016

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE MANUAL 2016
Author: Editorial Board
Publisher: Kalinjar Publications
Total Pages: 273
Release:
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9351720543

History of India and World Indian Polity and Governance Geography of India and The World Economy General Science Organisations Sports & Games General Knowledge Objective Questions Extremely useful for UPSC, IAS, PCS, Civil Services, SSC, IBPS, UGC, CBSE, CLAT, related Govt Recruitment Exams

Literature of Girmitiya

Literature of Girmitiya
Author: Neha Singh
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2023-01-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9811946213

This book covers various forms of the production of girmitiya culture and literature. One of the main objectives is to conceptualize the idea of girmitya, girmitology, and girmitiya literature, culture, history, and identity in both colonial and postcolonial contexts. This book aims to document the history, experiences, culture, assimilation, and identity of girmitiya community. It also critically analyses the articulation, projection, and production of their experiences of migration and being immigrant, their narratives, tradition, culture, religion, and memory. It also explores how this labour community formulated into a diaspora community and reconnected/created the home (land) and continues to do so in the wake of globalization and Information and Communication Technology (ICT). This book is an attempt to bring the intriguing neglected diverse historical heritage of colonial labour migration and their narratives into the mainstream scholarly debates and discussions in the humanities and the social sciences through the trans- and interdisciplinary perspectives. This book assesses the routes of migration of old diaspora, and it explains the nuances of cultural change among the generations. Although, they have migrated centuries back, absorbed and assimilated, and got citizenships of respective countries of destinations but still their longing for roots, culture, identities, “home”, and the constant struggle is to retain connections with their homeland depicted in their cultural practices, arts, music, songs, folklore and literary manifestations.

Coolies of the Empire

Coolies of the Empire
Author: Ashutosh Kumar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2017-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108225691

This book studies Indian overseas labour migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which involved millions of Indians traversing the globe in the age of empire, subsequent to the abolition of slavery in 1833. This migration led to the presence of Indians and their culture being felt all over the world. This study delves deep into the lives of these indentured workers from India who called themselves girmitiyas; it is a narrative of their experiences in India and in the sugar colonies abroad. It foregrounds the alternative world view of the girmitiyas, and their socio-cultural and religious life in the colonies. In this book, the author has developed highly original insights into the experience of colonial indentured migrant labour, describing the ways in which migrants managed to survive and even flourish within the interstices of the indentured labour system and how considerably the experience of migration changed over time.