Author: Richard Stevenson
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595362095
Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This history of the Bengal Famine of 1943 describes the interplay of politics, economics, sociology and military policy, which caused a famine due to a lack of cash, not a lack of food. The Famine, whose story is almost unknown due to wartime censorship by the British, occurred because of a hyperinflation in the price of rice caused by the provisioning for the major offensive against the Japanese on India's eastern borders. Relief efforts were halfhearted because much of the countryside was in a state of endemic revolt against the British. The logistical problems caused by massive gifts of food by the British and Indian troops to the starving people threatened to stall the forthcoming offensive. The cause of the Famine was the deadly alienation between the Bengalis and their British rulers.
Bengal Tiger and British Lion
Author: Richard Stevenson
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595362095
Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This history of the Bengal Famine of 1943 describes the interplay of politics, economics, sociology and military policy, which caused a famine due to a lack of cash, not a lack of food. The Famine, whose story is almost unknown due to wartime censorship by the British, occurred because of a hyperinflation in the price of rice caused by the provisioning for the major offensive against the Japanese on India's eastern borders. Relief efforts were halfhearted because much of the countryside was in a state of endemic revolt against the British. The logistical problems caused by massive gifts of food by the British and Indian troops to the starving people threatened to stall the forthcoming offensive. The cause of the Famine was the deadly alienation between the Bengalis and their British rulers.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595362095
Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This history of the Bengal Famine of 1943 describes the interplay of politics, economics, sociology and military policy, which caused a famine due to a lack of cash, not a lack of food. The Famine, whose story is almost unknown due to wartime censorship by the British, occurred because of a hyperinflation in the price of rice caused by the provisioning for the major offensive against the Japanese on India's eastern borders. Relief efforts were halfhearted because much of the countryside was in a state of endemic revolt against the British. The logistical problems caused by massive gifts of food by the British and Indian troops to the starving people threatened to stall the forthcoming offensive. The cause of the Famine was the deadly alienation between the Bengalis and their British rulers.
Bengal Tiger & British Lion
Author: Basu/Bose
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781413459456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781413459456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The Lion and the Tiger
Author: Denis Judd
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192803580
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
An authoritative and lively account of the long and controversial history of the British in India, from the foundation of the East India Company in 1600; to Ghandi's innovative leadership of the increasingly militant Indian Nationalist movement: and finally to Lord Mountbatten's 'swift surgeryof partition', leaving behind the Independent states of India and Pakistan.Against this epic backdrop, Judd explores the consequences of British control for both Indians and the British in India.What was the effect on their daily lives, and on the lives they were effectively controlling? Were the British intent on development or exploitation? Were they a 'civilizing'force? Easy answers are avoided, and difficult questions provoked in this fascinating book.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192803580
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
An authoritative and lively account of the long and controversial history of the British in India, from the foundation of the East India Company in 1600; to Ghandi's innovative leadership of the increasingly militant Indian Nationalist movement: and finally to Lord Mountbatten's 'swift surgeryof partition', leaving behind the Independent states of India and Pakistan.Against this epic backdrop, Judd explores the consequences of British control for both Indians and the British in India.What was the effect on their daily lives, and on the lives they were effectively controlling? Were the British intent on development or exploitation? Were they a 'civilizing'force? Easy answers are avoided, and difficult questions provoked in this fascinating book.
The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature
Author: Arthur Bartlett Maurice
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature" by Arthur Bartlett Maurice, Frederic Taber Cooper. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature" by Arthur Bartlett Maurice, Frederic Taber Cooper. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The British Lion's Message to the British People. A Letter to John Bull , Esq., from the British Bulldog [concerning the Assumption of the Title of “Empress of India” by Queen Victoria.]
Author: British lion
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
The British Lion's Message, to the British People. A Letter to John Bull, Esqr. from the British Bulldog
Author: British Lion
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature
Author: Arthur Bartlett Maurice
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caricature
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caricature
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Rani of Jhansi
Author: Harleen Singh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316092992
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Colonial texts often read the Indian woman warrior as a cultural anomaly, but Indian texts find recourse in the mythological examples of the female warrior. Rani Lakshmi Bai's remaking transforms the mythologically viable, yet socially marginal, figure of a woman in battle into bounded and meaningful feminine roles such as daughter, wife, mother, and queen. Women and the home were integral to how nationalist discourse envisioned the modern, yet traditional, Indian nation. The Rani remains a metaphoric referent of the home, and is an abiding symbol of the nation, reinvented as authority, power, and tradition. The depictions of the Rani signals what is at stake in representing the unrestricted woman in the public sphere. The book extends the discussion on what constitutes the historical archive of the gendered colonial subject and the postcolonial rebel by being attentive to the vexed figures produced within the competing ideologies of colonialism and nationalism.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316092992
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Colonial texts often read the Indian woman warrior as a cultural anomaly, but Indian texts find recourse in the mythological examples of the female warrior. Rani Lakshmi Bai's remaking transforms the mythologically viable, yet socially marginal, figure of a woman in battle into bounded and meaningful feminine roles such as daughter, wife, mother, and queen. Women and the home were integral to how nationalist discourse envisioned the modern, yet traditional, Indian nation. The Rani remains a metaphoric referent of the home, and is an abiding symbol of the nation, reinvented as authority, power, and tradition. The depictions of the Rani signals what is at stake in representing the unrestricted woman in the public sphere. The book extends the discussion on what constitutes the historical archive of the gendered colonial subject and the postcolonial rebel by being attentive to the vexed figures produced within the competing ideologies of colonialism and nationalism.
British Images of Germany
Author: R. Scully
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137283467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
British Images of Germany is the first full-length cultural history of Britain's relationship with Germany in the key period leading up to the First World War. Richard Scully reassesses what is imagined to be a fraught relationship, illuminating the sense of kinship Britons felt for Germany even in times of diplomatic tension.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137283467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
British Images of Germany is the first full-length cultural history of Britain's relationship with Germany in the key period leading up to the First World War. Richard Scully reassesses what is imagined to be a fraught relationship, illuminating the sense of kinship Britons felt for Germany even in times of diplomatic tension.
Churchill's Bestiary
Author: Piers Brendon
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1789290511
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
In this fascinating and unique biography, Dr Piers Brendon looks deeper into Churchill's love of the animal kingdom, and at how animals played such a large part in his everyday life.
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1789290511
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
In this fascinating and unique biography, Dr Piers Brendon looks deeper into Churchill's love of the animal kingdom, and at how animals played such a large part in his everyday life.