Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India
Author : Reginald Heber
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Page : 568 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 1828
Category : Bishops
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Author : Reginald Heber
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Page : 568 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 1828
Category : Bishops
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Author : Reginald Heber
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Page : 316 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 1873
Category : India
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Author : Reginald Heber
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Page : 562 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 1829
Category : India
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Author : Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.)
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Page : 598 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 1828
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Author : Swati Chattopadhyay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 21,86 MB
Release : 2005-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1134289421
Representing Calcutta is a spatial history of the colonial city, and addresses the question of modernity that haunts our perception of Calcutta. The book responds to two inter-related concerns about the city. First is the image of Calcutta as the worst case scenario of a Third World city -- the proverbial 'city of dreadful nights.' Second is the changing nature of the city’s public spaces -- the demise of certain forms of urban sociality that has been mourned in recent literature as the passing of Bengali modernity. By examining architecture, city plans, paintings, literature, and official reports through the lens of postcolonial, feminist, and spatial theory, the book explores the conditions of colonialism and anti-colonial nationalism that produced the city as a modern artefact. At the centre of this exploration resides the problem of 'representing' the city, representation understood as description and narration, as well as political representation. In doing so, Chattopadhyay questions the very idea of colonial cities as creations of the colonizers, and the model of colonial cities as dual cities, split in black and white areas, in favour of a more complicated view of the topography.
Author : Reginald Heber
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Page : 332 pages
File Size : 14,50 MB
Release : 1844
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Author : Reginald Heber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1108028918
Bishop Heber of Calcutta's fascinating and detailed account of his travels around India was first published in 1828.
Author : Manujendra Kundu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 2024-02-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 019287151X
Covering nearly 225 years, this volume tries to capture a broad spectrum of the situation of women performers from Gerasim Lebedeff's time (1795), who are considered to be the first performers in modern Bengali theatre, to today's time. The moot question is whether the role of women as performers evolved down the centuries. Whether this question will lead us to their subjugation to their male counterparts, producers, and directors has been explored here to give readers an understanding of when, where, by whom the politics began, and, by tracing the footprints, we have tried to understand if the politics has changed, or remains unchanged, or metamorphosed with regard to the woman's question in the performance discourse. We have explored, in this regard, how her body, mind, and sexuality interacted with and negotiated the phallocentric hierarchy. The essays included are on (i) Baiji/Tawaif culture in eastern and western Bengal; (ii) prostitute/'fallen' women/ patita, beshya performers; (iii) IPTA and the Naxalbari movement; (iv) group and commercial/professional theatre of Kolkata; (v) women's position in the theatre of Bangladesh; (vi) Cabaret (with an interview with Miss Shefali) (vii) Jatra; (viii) Baul tradition. (ix) Besides, there are chapters on English, Anglo-Indian, Jew, Nachni performers and the illustrious dancer Amala Shankar, and film-music-dance in general.
Author : Vijaya Ramadas Mandala
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199096600
The figure of the white hunter sahib proudly standing over the carcass of a tiger with a gun in hand is one of the most powerful and enduring images of the empire. This book examines the colonial politics that allowed British imperialists to indulge in such grand posturing as the rulers and protectors of indigenous populations. This work studies the history of hunting and conservation in colonial India during the high imperial decades of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At this time, not only did hunting serve as a metaphor for colonial rule signifying the virile sportsmanship of the British hunter, but it also enabled vital everyday governance through the embodiment of the figure of the officer–hunter–administrator. Using archival material and published sources, the author examines hunting and wildlife conservation from various social and ethnic perspectives, and also in different geographical contexts, extending our understanding of the link between shikar and governance.
Author : Anil Seal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 1968-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521062749
In this volume Dr Seal analyses the social roots of the rather confused stirrings towards political organisations of the 1870s and 1880s which brought about the foundation of the Indian National Congress. He is concerned not only with the politicians, viceroys and civil servants but with the social structure of those parts of India where political movements were most prominent at the time. The emphasis of this work is more upon Indian politics than upon British policy: the associations in Bengal and Bombay, the genesis of the Congress and the Muslim breakaway which accentuated the political divisions in India.