Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
The Missionary Herald
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
The Brahmins' Treasure
Author: George Alfred Henty
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Colonel Thorndyke brought home from India a diamond bracelet stolen from a Hindu idol by a British soldier. Theft from a Hindu temple was considered a crime in India, obligating one or more persons to hunt down the thief and bring back what was stolen. The members of the Thorndyke family soon learned that they were being watched but could not determine whether by English highwaymen or Indian pursuers. A mysterious death followed, and this determined Mark Thorndyke, the hero of the tale, to become a detective in the London police force for the purpose of unraveling the mystery.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Colonel Thorndyke brought home from India a diamond bracelet stolen from a Hindu idol by a British soldier. Theft from a Hindu temple was considered a crime in India, obligating one or more persons to hunt down the thief and bring back what was stolen. The members of the Thorndyke family soon learned that they were being watched but could not determine whether by English highwaymen or Indian pursuers. A mysterious death followed, and this determined Mark Thorndyke, the hero of the tale, to become a detective in the London police force for the purpose of unraveling the mystery.
The baptist Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Missionary Register
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Bungalow in Twentieth-Century India
Author: Madhavi Desai
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351893475
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The primary era of this study - the twentieth century - symbolizes the peak of the colonial rule and its total decline, as well as the rise of the new nation state of India. The processes that have been labeled 'westernization' and 'modernization' radically changed middle-class Indian life during the century. This book describes and explains the various technological, political and social developments that shaped one building type - the bungalow - contemporaneous to the development of modern Indian history during the period of British rule and its subsequent aftermath. Drawing on their own physical and photographic documentation, and building on previous work by Anthony King and the Desais, the authors show the evolution of the bungalow's architecture from a one storey building with a verandah to the assortment of house-forms and their regional variants that are derived from the bungalow. Moreover, the study correlates changes in society with architectural consequences in the plans and aesthetics of the bungalow. It also examines more generally what it meant to be modern in Indian society as the twentieth century evolved.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351893475
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The primary era of this study - the twentieth century - symbolizes the peak of the colonial rule and its total decline, as well as the rise of the new nation state of India. The processes that have been labeled 'westernization' and 'modernization' radically changed middle-class Indian life during the century. This book describes and explains the various technological, political and social developments that shaped one building type - the bungalow - contemporaneous to the development of modern Indian history during the period of British rule and its subsequent aftermath. Drawing on their own physical and photographic documentation, and building on previous work by Anthony King and the Desais, the authors show the evolution of the bungalow's architecture from a one storey building with a verandah to the assortment of house-forms and their regional variants that are derived from the bungalow. Moreover, the study correlates changes in society with architectural consequences in the plans and aesthetics of the bungalow. It also examines more generally what it meant to be modern in Indian society as the twentieth century evolved.
The Towers of Silence Case. [Report of Proceedings in the Trial of Māṇekjī Dārābjī and Others for Rioting.]
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
The Book Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
House, but No Garden
Author: Nikhil Rao
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 145293391X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Between the well-documented development of colonial Bombay and sprawling contemporary Mumbai, a profound shift in the city’s fabric occurred: the emergence of the first suburbs and their distinctive pattern of apartment living. In House, but No Garden Nikhil Rao considers this phenomenon and its significance for South Asian urban life. It is the first book to explore an organization of the middle-class neighborhood that became ubiquitous in the mid-twentieth-century city and that has spread throughout the subcontinent. Rao examines how the challenge of converting lands from agrarian to urban use created new relations between the state, landholders, and other residents of the city. At the level of dwellings, apartment living in self-contained flats represented a novel form of urban life, one that expressed a compromise between the caste and class identities of suburban residents who are upper caste but belong to the lower-middle or middle class. Living in such a built environment, under the often conflicting imperatives of maintaining the exclusivity of caste and subcaste while assembling residential groupings large enough to be economically viable, led suburban residents to combine caste with class, type of work, and residence to forge new metacaste practices of community identity. As it links the colonial and postcolonial city—both visually and analytically—Rao’s work traces the appearance of new spatial and cultural configurations in the middle decades of the twentieth century in Bombay. In doing so, it expands our understanding of how built environments and urban identities are constitutive of one another.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 145293391X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Between the well-documented development of colonial Bombay and sprawling contemporary Mumbai, a profound shift in the city’s fabric occurred: the emergence of the first suburbs and their distinctive pattern of apartment living. In House, but No Garden Nikhil Rao considers this phenomenon and its significance for South Asian urban life. It is the first book to explore an organization of the middle-class neighborhood that became ubiquitous in the mid-twentieth-century city and that has spread throughout the subcontinent. Rao examines how the challenge of converting lands from agrarian to urban use created new relations between the state, landholders, and other residents of the city. At the level of dwellings, apartment living in self-contained flats represented a novel form of urban life, one that expressed a compromise between the caste and class identities of suburban residents who are upper caste but belong to the lower-middle or middle class. Living in such a built environment, under the often conflicting imperatives of maintaining the exclusivity of caste and subcaste while assembling residential groupings large enough to be economically viable, led suburban residents to combine caste with class, type of work, and residence to forge new metacaste practices of community identity. As it links the colonial and postcolonial city—both visually and analytically—Rao’s work traces the appearance of new spatial and cultural configurations in the middle decades of the twentieth century in Bombay. In doing so, it expands our understanding of how built environments and urban identities are constitutive of one another.
Calcutta
Author: Soumyendra Nath Mukherjee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calcutta (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Social morphology of Calcutta in the nineteenth century. Some essays published previously.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calcutta (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Social morphology of Calcutta in the nineteenth century. Some essays published previously.
Final Report on the Survey and Settlement Operations in the District of Bankura, 1917-1924
Author: Frederick William Robertson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bānkurā (India : District)
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bānkurā (India : District)
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description