Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930 - Volume 1

Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930 - Volume 1
Author: Lieutenant-Colonel D. G. Crawford
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2012-02-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1781502293

Volume 1 of 2. An excellent research tool which lists 6586 former IMS personnel, giving details of their services, honours and awards, campaign medal entitlements, etc. This very large book also contains interesting information concerning Indian Medical Colleges and places of instruction. A primary source, by the same author who wrote the preceding entry, containing a huge amount of biographical detail which could be obtained from other sources only with great difficulty.

The Bengal Delta

The Bengal Delta
Author: I. Iqbal
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2010-10-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230289819

With a focus on colonial Bengal, this book demonstrates how the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine can only be properly understood from an ecological perspective as well as discussions of state's coercion and popular resistance, market forces and dependency, or contested cultures and consciousness.