Author: J. Reginald Hand
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Category : Bihar (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Author: H.K. Kaul
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351867172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449

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This book, first published in 1975, is a comprehensive list of all the books on India, written in English before 1900. It is an invaluable reference source on India of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Apart from the work of professional writers, there are the writings of a cross-section of society from soldiers to scientists. We find dictionaries of obscure dialects written by government officials, descriptions of their travels by visiting clerics, homely details of everyday life by housewives, as well as technical and scientific works written by scholars.

Author: Nitin Sinha
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783083115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Through a regional focus on Bihar between the 1760s and 1880s, ‘Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India’ reveals the shifting and contradictory nature of the colonial state’s policies and discourses on communication. The volume explores the changing relationship between trade, transport and mobility in India, as evident in the trading and mercantile networks operating at various scales of the economy. Of crucial importance to this study are the ways in which knowledge about roads and routes was collected through practices of travel, tours, surveys, and map-making, all of which benefited the state in its attempts to structure a regime that would regulate ‘undesirable’ forms of mobility.

Author: J. Reginald Hand
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Category : Bihar (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 542

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Author: John R. McLane
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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This book examines the politics and culture of eastern India's landed chiefs.

Author: Bindeshwari Prasad Sinha
Publisher:
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Category : Bihar (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 664

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Author: Sir John Francis William James
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Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Author: Carolyn Brown Heinz
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 493

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Prior to 1947, the Maithil Brahmans dominated North Bihar culturally, politically, and economically. Darbhanga Raj, the richest zamindari estate in British India, was owned by a family of the elite sub-group of Brahmans, the Srotriyas. The high prestige of this elite was based on a lifestyle prescribed by ancient law codes involving simplicity of life, daily Vedic rites, and intermarriage within a small network of lineages 24 generations deep. It was a highly conservative, inward-looking, isolationist community. In 1980, anthropologist Carolyn Brown Heinz was privileged to see inside this elite community with a one-year grant from the Indo-US Subcommission and return trips over the next two decades. Independence had brought elimination of royal titles and dismantling of the vast Darbhanga Raj estate. The last king had died. These changes upended the old order, and she was able to observe the fall-out at close range. Told in first person, this is a highly personal account, told with grace and compassion. An unexpected development during the same period was the emergence of a women’s art form known as Mithila or Madhubani Art, which Heinz was also able to observe at first hand and describe in this work.

Author: L.S.S. O`malley
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788172681227
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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