Author: Aditi Chatterji
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Changing Landscapes of the Indian Hill Stations
Author: Aditi Chatterji
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Contagion and Enclaves
Author: Nandini Bhattacharya
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1846318297
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Contagion and Enclaves examines the social history of medicine across two intersecting British enclaves in the major tea-producing region of colonial India: the hill station of Darjeeling and the adjacent tea plantations of North Bengal. Focusing on the establishment of hill sanatoria and other health care facilities and practices against the backdrop of the expansion of tea cultivation and labor migration, it tracks the demographic and environmental transformation of the region and the critical role race and medicine played in it, showing that the British enclaves were essential and distinctive sites of the articulation of colonial power and economy.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1846318297
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Contagion and Enclaves examines the social history of medicine across two intersecting British enclaves in the major tea-producing region of colonial India: the hill station of Darjeeling and the adjacent tea plantations of North Bengal. Focusing on the establishment of hill sanatoria and other health care facilities and practices against the backdrop of the expansion of tea cultivation and labor migration, it tracks the demographic and environmental transformation of the region and the critical role race and medicine played in it, showing that the British enclaves were essential and distinctive sites of the articulation of colonial power and economy.
The Ravaged Paradise
Author: Dipanwita Dasgupta
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000885739
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
This book makes a systematic attempt to explore the environmental history of Darjeeling during the British colonial period (1835-1947), which profoundly transformed the environment of Darjeeling by introducing commercial control over the natural resources. After the foundation of Darjeeling as the hill station for the low-income groups of British administration living in Bengal and Burma, the place was transformed into a social, recreational and commercial centre for the British authorities. The railway construction boom, introduction of tea plantation, the growth of a commercial market for timber and increasing demands for fuel and building materials depleted the forest cover. The less explored regions of Darjeeling attracted the adventure-thirsty Britons. A series of investigations were made on the marketable products, the condition of roads, and quality of soil of these regions. The ethnographic, geological, botanical and zoological study of the Darjeeling was started by the colonial officials in the nineteenth century. In the early stage of expansion of colonialism in Asia, Africa, Australia and South America, the European colonizers faced numerous problems in dealing with the untouched nature. The accumulation of the knowledge of surrounding regions and proper management of the labour became essential for the colonial authority for transformation of the existing environment of the densely forested tropical colonies. Taylor and Francis does not sell or distribute the print editions of this book in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000885739
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
This book makes a systematic attempt to explore the environmental history of Darjeeling during the British colonial period (1835-1947), which profoundly transformed the environment of Darjeeling by introducing commercial control over the natural resources. After the foundation of Darjeeling as the hill station for the low-income groups of British administration living in Bengal and Burma, the place was transformed into a social, recreational and commercial centre for the British authorities. The railway construction boom, introduction of tea plantation, the growth of a commercial market for timber and increasing demands for fuel and building materials depleted the forest cover. The less explored regions of Darjeeling attracted the adventure-thirsty Britons. A series of investigations were made on the marketable products, the condition of roads, and quality of soil of these regions. The ethnographic, geological, botanical and zoological study of the Darjeeling was started by the colonial officials in the nineteenth century. In the early stage of expansion of colonialism in Asia, Africa, Australia and South America, the European colonizers faced numerous problems in dealing with the untouched nature. The accumulation of the knowledge of surrounding regions and proper management of the labour became essential for the colonial authority for transformation of the existing environment of the densely forested tropical colonies. Taylor and Francis does not sell or distribute the print editions of this book in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Landscape and the Bengali Diaspora
Author: Aditi Chatterji
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000811255
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Bengalis have been great travellers for centuries and are famous for recreating their way of life wherever they go. This book critically analyses skilled Bengali migration within and beyond India and looks at landscapes created by the Bengali diaspora beyond the terrain of their homeland, ranging from those of nostalgia and imagination (Durga Puja/Saraswati Puja) to those of subjugation and loss of identity. This book demonstrates the relationship between landscape and diaspora in terms of perception, imagination, space and place, ethnicity, race, caste, and class. With case studies from Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Dehra Dun, Oxford, Aberdeen, New York, and the Bay Area (USA), it brings together themes like evolution of the Bengali diaspora, transnationalism and identity, stratification and segregation, urban social space, adaptation and assimilation, and questions of discrimination from other communities. Drawing on ethnographic accounts of over 300 skilled Bengalis, the book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of diaspora studies, urban studies, ethnic studies, migration studies, geography, sociology, history, and political studies.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000811255
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Bengalis have been great travellers for centuries and are famous for recreating their way of life wherever they go. This book critically analyses skilled Bengali migration within and beyond India and looks at landscapes created by the Bengali diaspora beyond the terrain of their homeland, ranging from those of nostalgia and imagination (Durga Puja/Saraswati Puja) to those of subjugation and loss of identity. This book demonstrates the relationship between landscape and diaspora in terms of perception, imagination, space and place, ethnicity, race, caste, and class. With case studies from Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Dehra Dun, Oxford, Aberdeen, New York, and the Bay Area (USA), it brings together themes like evolution of the Bengali diaspora, transnationalism and identity, stratification and segregation, urban social space, adaptation and assimilation, and questions of discrimination from other communities. Drawing on ethnographic accounts of over 300 skilled Bengalis, the book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of diaspora studies, urban studies, ethnic studies, migration studies, geography, sociology, history, and political studies.
Landscapes of Power
Author: Aditi Chatterji
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Colonial Self-Fashioning in British India, c. 1785-1845
Author: Prasannajit de Silva
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527514285
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
A stereotypical view of the nineteenth-century British in India, which might be characterised as one of deliberate isolation and segregation from their surroundings, has recently been complemented by one evoking a high degree of integration and closer co-existence in the eighteenth century. Focusing on a period which straddles this apparent shift, this book explores a variety of ways in which British residents in India represented their lives through visual material, and reveals a more nuanced position. Consideration of these images, which have often been overlooked in the scholarly literature, opens up questions of identity facing the British population in India at this time and facing colonial societies more generally, and issues about the role of visual culture in negotiating them. It also underlines the fragile and contested nature of identity: the colonists’ self-fashioning encompassed not only expressions of difference from their Indian setting, but also what distinguished them from their compatriots back in Britain, as well as engaging with metropolitan attitudes towards, and prejudices about, them.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527514285
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
A stereotypical view of the nineteenth-century British in India, which might be characterised as one of deliberate isolation and segregation from their surroundings, has recently been complemented by one evoking a high degree of integration and closer co-existence in the eighteenth century. Focusing on a period which straddles this apparent shift, this book explores a variety of ways in which British residents in India represented their lives through visual material, and reveals a more nuanced position. Consideration of these images, which have often been overlooked in the scholarly literature, opens up questions of identity facing the British population in India at this time and facing colonial societies more generally, and issues about the role of visual culture in negotiating them. It also underlines the fragile and contested nature of identity: the colonists’ self-fashioning encompassed not only expressions of difference from their Indian setting, but also what distinguished them from their compatriots back in Britain, as well as engaging with metropolitan attitudes towards, and prejudices about, them.
ICSSR Journal of Abstracts and Reviews
Author: Indian Council of Social Science Research
Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Calcutta Geographical Review
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Environment and Development
Author: Amitava Mukherjee
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788170227885
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Contributed articles.
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788170227885
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Contributed articles.
Changing Environmental Scenario of the Indian Subcontinent
Author: Indian Institute of Geomorphologists. Conference
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental degradation
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Papers presented at the International Seminar and the 13th Annual Conference of Indian Institute of Geomorphologists, organised by the Department of Geography, held at Kolkata.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental degradation
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Papers presented at the International Seminar and the 13th Annual Conference of Indian Institute of Geomorphologists, organised by the Department of Geography, held at Kolkata.