Book Description
Historical geography of Surat, India, upto the late 19th century.
Author : Vengalil A. Janaki
Publisher : Baroda : Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, M.S. University of Baroda : copies can be had from University Publications Sales Unit
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 24,83 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Surat (India)
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Historical geography of Surat, India, upto the late 19th century.
Author : Vengalil A. Janaki
Publisher :
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 31,37 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Surat (India)
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Author : Minal Hajratwala
Publisher : HMH
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 2009-03-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0547345410
The PEN Award–winning chronicle of the Indian diaspora told through the stories of the author’s own family. In this “rich, entertaining and illuminating story,” Minal Hajratwala mixes history, memoir, and reportage to explore the collisions of choice and history that led her family to emigrate from India (San Francisco Chronicle). “Meticulously researched and evocatively written” (The Washington Post), Leaving India looks for answers to the eternal questions that faced not only Hajratwala’s own Indian family but all immigrants, everywhere: Where did we come from? Why did we leave? What did we give up and gain in the process? Beginning with her great-grandfather Motiram’s original flight from British-occupied India to Fiji, where he rose from tailor to department store mogul, Hajratwala follows her ancestors across the twentieth-century to explain how they came to be spread across five continents and nine countries. As she delves into the relationship between personal choice and the great historical forces—British colonialism, apartheid, Gandhi’s salt march, and American immigration policy—that helped shape her family’s experiences, Hajratwala brings to light for the very first time the story of the Indian diaspora. A luminous narrative from “a fine daughter of the continent, bringing insight, intelligence and compassion to the lives and sojourns of her far-flung kin,” Leaving India offers a deeply intimate look at what it means to call more than one part of the world home (Alice Walker).
Author : Teotonio R. De Souza
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 16,93 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 9788170222637
Author : Douglas E. Haynes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0520909488
This book explores the rhetoric and ritual of Indian elites undercolonialism, focusing on the city of Surat in the Bombay Presidency. It particularly examines how local elites appropriated and modified the liberal representative discourse of Britain and thus fashioned a "public' culture that excluded the city's underclasses. Departing from traditional explanations that have seen this process as resulting from English education or radical transformations in society, Haynes emphasizes the importance of the unequal power relationship between the British and those Indians who struggled for political influence and justice within the colonial framework. A major contribution of the book is Haynes' analysis of the emergence and ultimate failure of Ghandian cultural meanings in Indian politics after 1923. The book addresses issues of importance to historians and anthropologists of India, to political scientists seeking to understand the origins of democracy in the "Third World," and general readers interested in comprehending processes of cultural change in colonial contexts.
Author : Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher :
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 19,70 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Geography
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Author : Indian History Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1508 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
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Author : Center for Research Libraries (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 23,20 MB
Release : 1969
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Vengalil A. Janaki
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 13,70 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Economic development
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Author : American Geographical Society of New York
Publisher :
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 20,87 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Geography
ISBN :