Author: J. Reginald Hand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bihar (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Early English Administration of Bihar, 1781-1785
Author: J. Reginald Hand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bihar (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bihar (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Early Writings on India
Author: H.K. Kaul
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351867172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351867172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
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.
Early English Administration of Bihar, 1781-1785
Author: J. Reginald Hand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bihar (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bihar (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India
Author: Nitin Sinha
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783083115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783083115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
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.
Bihar Days
Author: Carolyn Brown Heinz
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
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.
Land and Local Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Bengal
Author: John R. McLane
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This book examines the politics and culture of eastern India's landed chiefs.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This book examines the politics and culture of eastern India's landed chiefs.
Selections from the Correspondence of the Revenue Chief of Bihar, 1781-86
Author: Sir John Francis William James
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Selections from the Correspondence of the Revenue Chief of Bihar, 1781-1786
Author: Bihar (India). Department of Revenue
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land value taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land value taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Bihar And Orissa Gazetteers Shahabad
Author: L.S.S. O`malley
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788172681227
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788172681227
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Statemaking and Territory in South Asia
Author: Bernardo A. Michael
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 0857285327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
“Statemaking and Territory in South Asia: Lessons from the Anglo–Gorkha War (1814–1816)” seeks to understand how European colonization transformed the organization of territory in South Asia through an examination of the territorial disputes that underlay the Anglo–Gorkha War of 1814–1816 and subsequent efforts of the colonial state to reorder its territories. The volume argues that these disputes arose out of older tribute, taxation and property relationships that left their territories perpetually intermixed and with ill-defined boundaries. It also seeks to describe the long-drawn-out process of territorial reordering undertaken by the British in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that set the stage for the creation of a clearly defined geographical template for the modern state in South Asia.
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 0857285327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
“Statemaking and Territory in South Asia: Lessons from the Anglo–Gorkha War (1814–1816)” seeks to understand how European colonization transformed the organization of territory in South Asia through an examination of the territorial disputes that underlay the Anglo–Gorkha War of 1814–1816 and subsequent efforts of the colonial state to reorder its territories. The volume argues that these disputes arose out of older tribute, taxation and property relationships that left their territories perpetually intermixed and with ill-defined boundaries. It also seeks to describe the long-drawn-out process of territorial reordering undertaken by the British in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that set the stage for the creation of a clearly defined geographical template for the modern state in South Asia.