Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324

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Author: Mushirul Hasan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789381523872
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Katherine Mayo
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Author: Moumita Chowdhury
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000603970
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 181

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This book focuses on the relation between technology, warfare and state in South Asia in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. It explores how gunpowder and artillery played a pivotal role in the military ascendancy of the East India Company in India. The monograph argues that the contemporary Indian military landscape was extremely dynamic, with contemporary indigenous polities (Mysore, the Maratha Confederacy and the Khalsa Kingdom) attempting to transform their military systems by modelling their armies on European lines. It shows how the Company established an edge through an efficient bureaucracy and a standardised manufacturing system, while the Indian powers primarily focused on continuous innovation and failed to introduce standardisation of production. Drawing on archival records from India and the UK, this volume makes a significant intervention in our understanding of the rise of the British Empire in South Asia. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, especially military history, military and strategic studies and South Asian studies.

Author: State Historical Society of Wisconsin
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Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Author: General Editor Towards Freedom Project Indian Council of Historical Research Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Publisher: Ratna Sagar
ISBN: 9789384092054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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The aim in this work is to address, through historical narrativization of some specific moments of colonial state building, the question: What, in theory, are the historical specificities of the 'colonial' state as distinct from other state forms? An attempt is made in this book, to weave together the discourse of state theory and the narrative of state practices. This approach is based on the argument that theory was not something out there to guide practice. Empirical evidence suggests a more complex picture of interaction between the two where, within parameters structured by theory, the practice in turn produces and structures theory at each conjuncture.

Author: Jerry R. Rogers
Publisher:
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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This collection contains 59 papers presented at the Third National Congress on Civil Engineering History and Heritage at the ASCE National Convention, held in Houston, Texas, October 10-13, 2001.

Author: Aniruddha Ray
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351997300
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 727

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This much anticipated volume looks at the historical evolution of towns and cities in medieval India from the early thirteenth to the late eighteenth century. The selection is based on the availability of documents. These include the narratives of European travellers in English, French, Italian, Dutch, and German with the exception of Ibn Battuta in mid-fourteenth century and also Middle Bengali literature in case of towns in Bengal. While the coastal towns and cities have been looked at, the interior ones are also described on the basis of the writings of later historians and archaeologists. Care has been taken to explain the rise, growth and the decline of some towns and cities in which the changing courses of rivers had played a crucial role. Attempts have been made to search other factors responsible for such eventualities. The delineation of physical features within the city has been given due emphasis including the different quarters of the city and the manners and customs of the local population with reference to craft production and commercial links. The morphological differences between the cities of eastern and those of the western or northern India have also been described. This is clear from the observations of port towns described here. All these would show that India was one of the most urbanized area in the medieval period before advent of the British.

Author: N. R. Ray
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 645

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Author: Aniruddha Ray
Publisher:
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Papers presented at the Seminar on Technology in Medieval India--16th to 18th Century, September 7 and 8, 1984, Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, Calcutta.