Author: R.M. Coopland
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375119097
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.
Lady's Escape from Gwalior
Author: R.M. Coopland
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375119097
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375119097
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.
A Lady's Escape from Gwalior and Life in the Fort of Agra During the Mutinies of 1857
Author: R. M. Coopland
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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A Lady's Escape from Gavalior and Life
Author: R. M. Coopland
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 334
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The Heroes of the Indian Rebellion
Author: David W. Bartlett
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Memsahibs
Author: Ipshita Nath
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
ISBN: 1787388786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
For young Englishwomen stepping off the steamer, the sights and sounds of humid colonial India were like nothing they’d ever experienced. For many, this was the ultimate destination to find a perfect civil servant husband. For still more, however, India offered a chance to fling off the shackles of Victorian social mores. The word ‘memsahib’ conjures up visions of silly aristocrats, well-staffed bungalows and languorous days at the club. Yet these women had sought out the uncertainties of life in Britain’s largest, busiest colony. Memsahibs introduces readers to the likes of Flora Annie Steel, Fanny Parks and Emily Eden, accompanying their husbands on expeditions, travelling solo across dangerous terrain, engaging with political questions, and recording their experiences. Yet the Raj was not all adventure. There was disease, and great risk to young women travelling alone; for colonial wives in far-flung outposts, there was little access to ‘society’. Cut off from modernity and the Western world, many women suffered terrible trauma and depression. From the hill-stations to the capital, this is a sweeping, vividly written anthology of colonial women’s lives across British India. Their honesty and bravery, in their actions and their writings, shine fresh light on this historical world.
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
ISBN: 1787388786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
For young Englishwomen stepping off the steamer, the sights and sounds of humid colonial India were like nothing they’d ever experienced. For many, this was the ultimate destination to find a perfect civil servant husband. For still more, however, India offered a chance to fling off the shackles of Victorian social mores. The word ‘memsahib’ conjures up visions of silly aristocrats, well-staffed bungalows and languorous days at the club. Yet these women had sought out the uncertainties of life in Britain’s largest, busiest colony. Memsahibs introduces readers to the likes of Flora Annie Steel, Fanny Parks and Emily Eden, accompanying their husbands on expeditions, travelling solo across dangerous terrain, engaging with political questions, and recording their experiences. Yet the Raj was not all adventure. There was disease, and great risk to young women travelling alone; for colonial wives in far-flung outposts, there was little access to ‘society’. Cut off from modernity and the Western world, many women suffered terrible trauma and depression. From the hill-stations to the capital, this is a sweeping, vividly written anthology of colonial women’s lives across British India. Their honesty and bravery, in their actions and their writings, shine fresh light on this historical world.
Gendered transactions
Author: Indrani Sen
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526106019
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book seeks to capture the complex experience of the white woman in colonial India through an exploration of gendered interactions over the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines missionary and memsahibs' colonial writings, both literary and non-literary, probing their construction of Indian women of different classes and regions, such as zenana women, peasants, ayahs and wet-nurses. Also examined are delineations of European female health issues in male authored colonial medical handbooks, which underline the misogyny undergirding this discourse. Giving voice to the Indian woman, this book also scrutinises the fiction of the first generation of western-educated Indian women who wrote in English, exploring their construction of white women and their negotiations with colonial modernities. This fascinating book will be of interest to the general reader and to experts and students of gender studies, colonial history, literary and cultural studies as well as the social history of health and medicine.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526106019
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book seeks to capture the complex experience of the white woman in colonial India through an exploration of gendered interactions over the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines missionary and memsahibs' colonial writings, both literary and non-literary, probing their construction of Indian women of different classes and regions, such as zenana women, peasants, ayahs and wet-nurses. Also examined are delineations of European female health issues in male authored colonial medical handbooks, which underline the misogyny undergirding this discourse. Giving voice to the Indian woman, this book also scrutinises the fiction of the first generation of western-educated Indian women who wrote in English, exploring their construction of white women and their negotiations with colonial modernities. This fascinating book will be of interest to the general reader and to experts and students of gender studies, colonial history, literary and cultural studies as well as the social history of health and medicine.
A History of the Indian Mutiny
Author: Thomas Rice Holmes
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Last Mughal (P/B)
Author: William Dalrynple
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780143102434
Category : Delhi (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Winner Of The Duff Cooper Prize For History 2007 Bahadur Shah Zafar Ii, The Last Mughal Emperor, Was A Mystic, A Talented Poet, And A Skilled Calligrapher, Who, Though Deprived Of Real Political Power By The East India Company, Succeeded In Creating A Court Of Great Brilliance, And Presided Over One Of The Great Cultural Renaissances Of Indian History. In 1857 It Was Zafar S Blessing To A Rebellion Among The Company S Own Indian Troops That Transformed An Army Mutiny Into The Largest Uprising The British Empire Ever Had To Face. The Last Mughal Is A Portrait Of The Dazzling Delhi Zafar Personified, And The Story Of The Last Days Of The Great Mughal Capital And Its Final Destruction In The Catastrophe Of 1857. Shaped From Groundbreaking Material, William Dalrymple S Powerful Retelling Of This Fateful Course Of Events Is An Extraordinary Revisionist Work With Clear Contemporary Echoes. It Is The First Account To Present The Indian Perspective On The Siege, And Has At Its Heart The Stories Of The Forgotten Individuals Tragically Caught Up In One Of The Bloodiest Upheavals In History.
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780143102434
Category : Delhi (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Winner Of The Duff Cooper Prize For History 2007 Bahadur Shah Zafar Ii, The Last Mughal Emperor, Was A Mystic, A Talented Poet, And A Skilled Calligrapher, Who, Though Deprived Of Real Political Power By The East India Company, Succeeded In Creating A Court Of Great Brilliance, And Presided Over One Of The Great Cultural Renaissances Of Indian History. In 1857 It Was Zafar S Blessing To A Rebellion Among The Company S Own Indian Troops That Transformed An Army Mutiny Into The Largest Uprising The British Empire Ever Had To Face. The Last Mughal Is A Portrait Of The Dazzling Delhi Zafar Personified, And The Story Of The Last Days Of The Great Mughal Capital And Its Final Destruction In The Catastrophe Of 1857. Shaped From Groundbreaking Material, William Dalrymple S Powerful Retelling Of This Fateful Course Of Events Is An Extraordinary Revisionist Work With Clear Contemporary Echoes. It Is The First Account To Present The Indian Perspective On The Siege, And Has At Its Heart The Stories Of The Forgotten Individuals Tragically Caught Up In One Of The Bloodiest Upheavals In History.
The Spectator
Author:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
A History of the Indian Mutiny and of the Disturbances which Accompanied it Among the Civil Populations
Author: Thomas Rice Holmes
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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