Author : Misbahuddin Khan
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 27,96 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Harbors
ISBN :
Author : Janam Mukherjee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0190209887
Examines the interconnected events including World War II, India's struggle for independence, and a period of acute scarcity that lead to mass starvation in colonial Bengal.
Author : Pranab Kumar Parua
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 2010-01-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9048131030
From time immemorial the Bengal Delta had been an important maritime des- nation for traders from all parts of the world. The actual location of the port of call varied from time to time in line with the natural hydrographic changes. From the early decades of the second millennium AD, traders from the European con- nent also joined the traders from the Arab countries, who had been the Forerunners in maritime trading with India. Daring traders and fortune seekers from Denmark, Holland, Belgium and England arrived at different ports of call along the Hooghly river. The river had been, in the meantime, losing its pre-eminence as the main outlet channel of the sacred Ganga into the Bay of Bengal, owing to a shift of ?ow towards east near Rajmahal into the Padma, which had been so long, carried very small part of the large volume of ?ow. On a cloudy afternoon on August 24, 1690 the British seafarer Job Charnock rested his oars at Kolkata and started a new chapter in the life of a sleepy village, bordering the Sunderbans which was ‘a tangled region of estuaries, rivers and water courses, enclosing a vast number of islands of various shapes and sizes. ’ and infested with a large variety of wild animals. In the language of the British Nobel Laureate (1907) Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). ???? ???? Thus the midday halt of Charnock grew a city.
Author : Sarah Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 11,84 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781874267553
We are pleased to announce a new series of environmental history readers, suitable for students. Comprising essays selected from our journals, Environment and History and Environmental Values, each inexpensive paperback volume will address an important theme in environmental history, combining underlying theory and specific case-studies. The first volume, Bio-invaders, investigates the rhetoric and realities of exotic, introduced and 'alien' species. The book comprises a number of general essays, exploring and challenging common perceptions about such species, and a series of case studies of specific species in specific contexts. Its geographical coverage ranges from the United Kingdom to New Zealand by way of South Africa, India and Palestine; and the essays cover both historical and recent introductions.
Author : Vishal Chandra
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Armies
ISBN : 9788182747067
Examines the role, relevance and status of armies in the dynamic socio-political milieu of the countries in India's South Asian neighbourhood. This book is part of an ongoing endeavour to further explore and understand the role of the Army in shaping the political destiny and defining the ideational evolution of states in South Asia.
Author : Annu Jalais
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 14,17 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136198695
Acclaimed for its unique ecosystem and Royal Bengal tigers, the mangrove islands that comprise the Sundarbans area of the Bengal delta are the setting for this pioneering anthropological work. The key question that the author explores is: what do tigers mean for the islanders of the Sundarbans? The diverse origins and current occupations of the local population produce different answers to this question – but for all, ‘the tiger question’ is a significant social marker. Far more than through caste, tribe or religion, the Sundarbans islanders articulate their social locations and interactions by reference to the non-human world – the forest and its terrifying protagonist, the man-eating tiger. The book combines rich ethnography on a little-known region with contemporary theoretical insights to provide a new frame of reference to understand social relations in the Indian subcontinent. It will be of interest to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology, development studies, religion and cultural studies, as well as those working on environment, conservation, the state and issues relating to discrimination and marginality.
Author : Sumita Kumar
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,54 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788182747487
Papers presented at the 6th South Asia Conference of Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, held at New Delhi during 6-7 November 2012.
Author : Imtiaz Hussain
Publisher : Springer
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 16,54 MB
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9811372403
This edited volume examines global power-rivalry in and around South Asia through Bangladeshi lenses using imperfect and overlapping interest concentric-circles as a template. Dynamics from three transitions —the United States exiting the Cold War, China emerging as a global-level power, and India’s eastern interests squaring off with China’s Belt Road Initiative, BRI—help place China, India, and the United States (in alphabetical order) in Bangladesh’s “inner-most” circle, China, India, and the United States in a “mid-stream” circle, and the United States and Latin America, among other countries, in the “outer-most” circle, depending on the issue. In an atmosphere of short-term gains over-riding long-term considerations, the desperate, widespread search for infrastructural funding inside South Asia enhances China’s value, raises local heat, releases new challenges, with costly default consequences looming, issue-specific analysis overtaking formal bilateral relations and a stubborn uncertainty riddling the Bangladeshi air as its policy preferences stubbornly show more certainty.
Author : Ania Loomba
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 11,8 MB
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351209698
Revolutionary Desires examines the lives and subjectivities of militant-nationalist and communist women in India from the late 1920s, shortly after the communist movement took root, to the 1960s, when it fractured. This close study demonstrates how India's revolutionary women shaped a new female – and in some cases feminist – political subject in the twentieth century, in collaboration and contestation with Indian nationalist, liberal-feminist, and European left-wing models of womenhood. Through a wide range of writings by, and about, revolutionary and communist women, including memoirs, autobiographies, novels, party documents, and interviews, Ania Loomba traces the experiences of these women, showing how they were constrained by, but also how they questioned, the gendered norms of Indian political culture. A collection of carefully restored photographs is dispersed throughout the book, helping to evoke the texture of these women’s political experiences, both public and private. Revolutionary Desires is an original and important intervention into a neglected area of leftist and feminist politics in India by a major voice in feminist studies.
Author : Lovat Fraser
Publisher : New York : H. Holt
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
