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  • The Great Indian Education Debate

    Documents Relating to the Orientalist-Anglicist Controversy, 1781-1843

    by Martin Moir, Lynn Zastoupil ...
    A bitter debate erupted in 1834 between Orientalists and Anglicists over what kind of public education the British should promote in their growing Indian empire. This collection of the main documents pertaining to the controversy (some published for the first time) aims to recover the major British and South Asian voices, broaden our understanding of imperial discourses and recognise the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    by Mohandas Gandhi ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics
    Hind Swaraj is Mahatma Gandhi's fundamental work. It is a key to understanding not only his life and thought but also the politics of South Asia in the first half of the twentieth century. For the first time this volume presents the 1910 text of Hind Swaraj and includes Gandhi's own Preface and Foreword (not found in other editions) and annotations by the editor. In his Introduction, Anthony Parel ... Read more

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  • Studies in Indian History and Culture

    by U N Ghoshal ...
    This book, first published in 1944, then revised and enlarged in 1957, has been in the archives for a long time and has now taken a new avatar in the electronic version.It does a thorough examination of Indian History and Culture, the beginnings of the historiography in the vedas, the early lives or legends of the Buddha, the historical traditions of the Puranas, and the two leading royal and ... Read more

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  • DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR WRITINGS AND SPEECHES VOL. 1

    by DR. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar ...
    Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956), popularly known as Baba Saheb, was an Indian jurist, economist, politician and social reformer who inspired the Dalit Buddhist Movement and campaigned against social discrimination against Untouchables (Dalits), while also supporting the rights of women and labour.[3][4] He was Independent India's first law minister and the principal ... Read more

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  • The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India

    Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India

    by Philip J. Stern ...
    Almost since the event itself in 1757, the English East India Company's victory over the forces of the nawab of Bengal and the territorial acquisitions that followed has been perceived as the moment when the British Empire in India was born. Examining the Company's political and intellectual history in the century prior to this supposed transformation, The Company-State rethinks this narrative and ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Enslaved Daughters

    Colonialism, Law and Women’s Rights

    by Sudhir Chandra ...
    This is the second edition of a remarkable study of a young woman's defiant stand against Hindu orthodoxy and the colonial legal establishment in the late nineteenth century India. It revolves around a suit for 'restitution of conjugal rights' filed against Rukhmabai, who was married at age eleven and refused to go and live with her husband. This lucid and engaging account captures the dramatic ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Princely India and the British

    Political Development and the Operation of Empire

    by Caroline Keen ...
    In the latter part of the nineteenth century,the royal status of Indian princes was under threat in what became a critical period of transition from traditional to imperial rule.Weakened by treaties concluded with the British earlier in the century,the rulers were subject to a concentrated campaign by British officials to turn palace life into a westernised construct of morality,rules and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Indian Unrest

    by Ignatius Chirol ...
    A fascinating book by early 20th Century British journalist and imperialist Sir Ignatius Valentine Chirol. Chirol had a civil suit brought against him by Bal Gangadhar Tilak, an Indian independence advocate, for some of the derogatory comments in the book. ... Read more

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  • The Position of Woman in Primitive Society: A Study of the Matriarchy

    by Catherine Gasquoine Hartley ...
    The twentieth century is the age of Woman; some day, it may be that it will be looked back upon as the golden age, the dawn, some say, of feminine civilisation. We cannot estimate as yet; and no man can tell what forces these new conditions may not release in the soul of woman. The modern change is that the will of woman is asserting itself. Women are looking for a satisfactory life, which is to ... Read more

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  • Liberalism, Imperialism, and the Historical Imagination

    Nineteenth-Century Visions of a Greater Britain

    by Theodore Koditschek ...
    This book examines the ways in which imperial agendas informed the writing of history in nineteenth-century Britain and how historical writing transformed imperial agendas. Using the published writings and personal papers of Walter Scott, J. A. Froude, James Mill, Rammohun Roy, T. B. Macaulay, E. A. Freeman, W. E. Gladstone, and J. R. Seeley among others, Theodore Koditschek sheds light on the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • India under Colonial Rule: 1700-1885

    by Douglas M. Peers ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    Between 1700 and 1885 the British became the paramount power on the Indian subcontinent, their authority extending from Sri Lankain the south to the Himalayasin the north. It was a massive empire, inspiring both pride and anxiety amongst the British, and forcing change upon and disrupting the lives of its Indian subjects.Yet it is not simply a history of conquest and subjugation, or dominance and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Colonial masculinity

    The 'manly Englishman' and the 'effeminate Bengali' in the late nineteenth century

    by Mrinalini Sinha ...
    Series Book 24 - Studies in Imperialism
    This book is about the processes and practices through which two differently positioned elites, among the colonisers and the colonised, were constituted respectively as the 'manly Englishman' and the 'effeminate Bengali'. It argues that the emerging dynamics between colonial and nationalist politics in the 1880s and 1890s in India is best captured in the logic of colonial masculinity. The figures ... Read more

    $26.99 USD