Bengal District Gazetteers
Author : Bengal (India)
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Bengal (India)
ISBN :
Author : Bengal (India)
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Bengal (India)
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,14 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Bengal (India)
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Author : Bihar (India)
Publisher :
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Bihar (India)
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Author : Lewis Sydney Steward O'Malley
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 38,35 MB
Release : 1989
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Author : India. Office of the Registrar
Publisher :
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 50,11 MB
Release : 1962
Category : India
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Author : Tahir Hussain Ansari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 37,43 MB
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1000651525
The volume provides a complex portrait of the chieftains of Bihar and their relationship with the Mughal Empire as well as their role in the consolidation and expansion of the Mughal Empire in India. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Author : J. Albert Rorabacher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 11,14 MB
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351997572
The world has become obsessed with the Western notions of progress, development, and globalization, the latter a form of human and economic homogenization. These processes, through the aegis of the United Nations, are comparatively monitored. Those nations deemed to be ‘lagging behind’ are then provided with foreign aid and developmental assistance. For nearly seventy years, India has sought its place in this global endeavour; yet, even today, abject poverty and backwardness can be observed in districts in almost every state; with the highest concentration of such districts found in the state of Bihar and a cultural enclave, known as Mithila. Development in India has been elusive because it is difficult to define; and because the Western concepts of development and progress have no absolute equivalents within many non-Western settings. As a consequence, development programmes often fail because they are unable to ask the right questions, but equally important is the political economy derived from foreign aid. For politicians, there is no long-term benefit to be derived from successful development. In general, foreign aid only serves to corrupt governments and politicians and, in the end, does very little for those who need help. The struggling states of Bihar and Mithila serve as extreme examples of India‘s problems. Development here has been thwarted by a hereditary landed aristocracy supported by religion, casteism, custom, social stratification, tradition, and patterns of behaviour that can be traced back millennia. In turn, all these have been masterfully manipulated by co-opted politicians, who have turned politics into a veritable art form as this volume comprehensively demonstrates.
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Page : 1326 pages
File Size : 50,89 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Law
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Author : Anand A. Yang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0520329600
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
Author : Samita Sen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 18,23 MB
Release : 1999-05-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521453631
Samita Sen's history of labouring women in Calcutta in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. Dr Sen demonstrates how - in contrast to the experience of their male counterparts - the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued women's labour, establishing patterns of urban migration and changing gender equations within the family. She relates these trends to the spread of dowry, enforced widowhood and child marriage. The book provides insight into the lives of poor urban women who were often perceived as prostitutes or social pariahs. Even trade unions refused to address their problems and they remained on the margins of organized political protest. The study will make a signficant contribution to the understanding of the social and economic history of colonial India and to notions of gender construction.