Author: Edward Ives
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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A Voyage from England to India
Author: Edward Ives
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Journey to the North of India
Author: Arthur Conolly
Publisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Third Voyage Journals
Author: Richmond Barbour
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This volume publishes for the first time the collected journals of the East India Company's Third Voyage (1607-10), England's first to reach India, which proved pivotal to England's emergence as a global player.
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This volume publishes for the first time the collected journals of the East India Company's Third Voyage (1607-10), England's first to reach India, which proved pivotal to England's emergence as a global player.
The Fishing Fleet
Author: Anne de Courcy
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297863835
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The adventurous young women who sailed to India during the Raj in search of husbands. From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and businessmen. With the advent of steam travel and the opening of the Suez Canal, countless young women, suffering at the lack of eligible men in Britain, followed in their wake. This amorphous band was composed of daughters returning after their English education, girls invited to stay with married sisters or friends, and yet others whose declared or undeclared goal was simply to find a husband. They were known as the Fishing Fleet, and this book is their story, hitherto untold. For these young women, often away from home for the first time, one thing they could be sure of was a rollicking good time. By the early 20th century, a hectic social scene was in place, with dances, parties, amateur theatricals, picnics, tennis tournaments, cinemas and gymkhanas, with perhaps a tiger shoot and a glittering dinner at a raja's palace thrown in. And, with men outnumbering women by roughly four to one, romances were conducted at alarming speed and marriages were frequent. But after the honeymoon, life often changed dramatically: whisked off to a remote outpost with few other Europeans for company, and where constant vigilance was required to guard against disease, they found it a far cry from the social whirlwind of their first arrival. Anne de Courcy's sparkling narrative is enriched by a wealth of first-hand sources - unpublished memoirs, letters and diaries rescued from attics - which bring this forgotten era vividly to life.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297863835
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The adventurous young women who sailed to India during the Raj in search of husbands. From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and businessmen. With the advent of steam travel and the opening of the Suez Canal, countless young women, suffering at the lack of eligible men in Britain, followed in their wake. This amorphous band was composed of daughters returning after their English education, girls invited to stay with married sisters or friends, and yet others whose declared or undeclared goal was simply to find a husband. They were known as the Fishing Fleet, and this book is their story, hitherto untold. For these young women, often away from home for the first time, one thing they could be sure of was a rollicking good time. By the early 20th century, a hectic social scene was in place, with dances, parties, amateur theatricals, picnics, tennis tournaments, cinemas and gymkhanas, with perhaps a tiger shoot and a glittering dinner at a raja's palace thrown in. And, with men outnumbering women by roughly four to one, romances were conducted at alarming speed and marriages were frequent. But after the honeymoon, life often changed dramatically: whisked off to a remote outpost with few other Europeans for company, and where constant vigilance was required to guard against disease, they found it a far cry from the social whirlwind of their first arrival. Anne de Courcy's sparkling narrative is enriched by a wealth of first-hand sources - unpublished memoirs, letters and diaries rescued from attics - which bring this forgotten era vividly to life.
Representations of India, 1740-1840
Author: A. Chatterjee
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230378161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Chatterjee analyzes how writing over the period of a century justified and was affected by the introduction and extension of British domination of India, demonstrating the link between written representations and the ideological, economic and political climate and debates. By showing how the representations of Britons in India, Indian religion and society and government evolved over the period 1740 to 1840, the author fills the gap between the early colonial 'exotic East' and the later 'primitive subject nation' perceptions.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230378161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Chatterjee analyzes how writing over the period of a century justified and was affected by the introduction and extension of British domination of India, demonstrating the link between written representations and the ideological, economic and political climate and debates. By showing how the representations of Britons in India, Indian religion and society and government evolved over the period 1740 to 1840, the author fills the gap between the early colonial 'exotic East' and the later 'primitive subject nation' perceptions.
The Desert Route to India, Being the Journals of Four Travellers by the Great Desert Caravan Route between Aleppo and Basra, 1745-1751
Author: Douglas Carruthers
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317036107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The journals of William Beawes, Gaylard Roberts, Bartholomew Plaisted, and John Carmichael. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1929.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317036107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The journals of William Beawes, Gaylard Roberts, Bartholomew Plaisted, and John Carmichael. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1929.
Catalogue of the Library of the India Office
Author: Great Britain. India Office. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Catalogue of the Library of the India Office
Author: India Office Library
Publisher:
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Category : Indic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Category : Indic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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The Desert Route to India
Author: Douglas Carruthers
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120611917
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Being The Journals Of Four Travellers Of The Great Desert Caravan Route Between Aleppo And Basra 1745-1751, William Beawes (1745), Gaylard Roberts (1748), Bartholomew Plaisted (1750), John Carmichael (1751).
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120611917
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Being The Journals Of Four Travellers Of The Great Desert Caravan Route Between Aleppo And Basra 1745-1751, William Beawes (1745), Gaylard Roberts (1748), Bartholomew Plaisted (1750), John Carmichael (1751).
The Desert Route to India
Author: Alexander Douglas Mitchell Carruthers
Publisher:
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Category : Iraq
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iraq
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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