Author: W. H. Carey
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333996734
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Excerpt from The Good Old Days of Honorable John Company, Vol. 3: Being Curious Reminiscences Illustrating Manners and Customs of the British in India During the Rule of the East India Company From 1600 to 1858; With Brief Notices of Places and People of Those Times, &C. &C. &C 4 Silk 5 Uttr of Roses 6 Indigo 7 Salt 8 Lime 9 Sugar 10. Ghee 11. Saltpetre 12. Tea 13. Opium 14. Paper. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Good Old Days of Honorable John Company
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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The Good Old Days of Honorable John Company, Vol. 3
Author: W. H. Carey
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333996734
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Excerpt from The Good Old Days of Honorable John Company, Vol. 3: Being Curious Reminiscences Illustrating Manners and Customs of the British in India During the Rule of the East India Company From 1600 to 1858; With Brief Notices of Places and People of Those Times, &C. &C. &C 4 Silk 5 Uttr of Roses 6 Indigo 7 Salt 8 Lime 9 Sugar 10. Ghee 11. Saltpetre 12. Tea 13. Opium 14. Paper. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333996734
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Excerpt from The Good Old Days of Honorable John Company, Vol. 3: Being Curious Reminiscences Illustrating Manners and Customs of the British in India During the Rule of the East India Company From 1600 to 1858; With Brief Notices of Places and People of Those Times, &C. &C. &C 4 Silk 5 Uttr of Roses 6 Indigo 7 Salt 8 Lime 9 Sugar 10. Ghee 11. Saltpetre 12. Tea 13. Opium 14. Paper. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Good Old Days of Honorable John Company
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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The Good Old Days of Honorable John Company
Author: W. H. Carey
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Catalogue
Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial library
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal
Author: Rachel Fell McDermott
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023112919X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Annually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor its most important goddesses: Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri. While each of these deities possesses a distinct iconography, myth, and character, they are all martial. Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri often demand blood sacrifice as part of their worship and offer material and spiritual benefits to their votaries. Richly represented in straw, clay, paint, and decoration, they are similarly displayed in elaborately festooned temples, thronged by thousands of admirers. The first book to recount the history of these festivals and their revelry, rivalry, and nostalgic power, this volume marks an unprecedented achievement in the mapping of a major public event. Rachel Fell McDermott describes the festivals' origins and growth under British rule. She identifies their iconographic conventions and carnivalesque qualities and their relationship to the fierce, Tantric sides of ritual practice. McDermott confronts controversies over the tradition of blood sacrifice and the status-seekers who compete for symbolic capital. Expanding her narrative, she takes readers beyond Bengal's borders to trace the transformation of the goddesses and their festivals across the world. McDermott's work underscores the role of holidays in cultural memory, specifically the Bengali evocation of an ideal, culturally rich past. Under the thrall of the goddess, the social, political, economic, and religious identity of Bengalis takes shape.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023112919X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Annually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor its most important goddesses: Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri. While each of these deities possesses a distinct iconography, myth, and character, they are all martial. Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri often demand blood sacrifice as part of their worship and offer material and spiritual benefits to their votaries. Richly represented in straw, clay, paint, and decoration, they are similarly displayed in elaborately festooned temples, thronged by thousands of admirers. The first book to recount the history of these festivals and their revelry, rivalry, and nostalgic power, this volume marks an unprecedented achievement in the mapping of a major public event. Rachel Fell McDermott describes the festivals' origins and growth under British rule. She identifies their iconographic conventions and carnivalesque qualities and their relationship to the fierce, Tantric sides of ritual practice. McDermott confronts controversies over the tradition of blood sacrifice and the status-seekers who compete for symbolic capital. Expanding her narrative, she takes readers beyond Bengal's borders to trace the transformation of the goddesses and their festivals across the world. McDermott's work underscores the role of holidays in cultural memory, specifically the Bengali evocation of an ideal, culturally rich past. Under the thrall of the goddess, the social, political, economic, and religious identity of Bengalis takes shape.
Calcutta Review
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 812
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 812
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Race and Power in British India
Author: Valerie Anderson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857726838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
By the nineteenth century the British had ruled India for over a hundred years, and had consolidated their power over the sub-continent. Until 1858, when Queen Victoria assumed sovereignty following the Indian Rebellion, the country was run by the East India Company - by this time a hybrid of state and commercial enterprises and eloquently and fiercely attacked as intrinsically immoral and dangerous by Edmund Burke in the late 1700s. Seeking to go beyond the statutes and ceremony, and show the reality of the interactions between rulers and ruled on a local level, this book looks at one of the most interesting phenomena of British India - the 'Eurasians'. The adventurers of the early years of Indian occupation arrived alone, and in taking 'native' mistresses and wives, created a race of administrators who were 'others' to both the native population and the British ruling class. These Anglo-Indian people existed in the zone between the colonizer and the colonized, and their history provides a wonderfully rich source for understanding Indian social history, race and colonial hegemony.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857726838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
By the nineteenth century the British had ruled India for over a hundred years, and had consolidated their power over the sub-continent. Until 1858, when Queen Victoria assumed sovereignty following the Indian Rebellion, the country was run by the East India Company - by this time a hybrid of state and commercial enterprises and eloquently and fiercely attacked as intrinsically immoral and dangerous by Edmund Burke in the late 1700s. Seeking to go beyond the statutes and ceremony, and show the reality of the interactions between rulers and ruled on a local level, this book looks at one of the most interesting phenomena of British India - the 'Eurasians'. The adventurers of the early years of Indian occupation arrived alone, and in taking 'native' mistresses and wives, created a race of administrators who were 'others' to both the native population and the British ruling class. These Anglo-Indian people existed in the zone between the colonizer and the colonized, and their history provides a wonderfully rich source for understanding Indian social history, race and colonial hegemony.
Printing in Calcutta to 1800
Author: Graham Shaw
Publisher: London : Bibliographical Society ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher: London : Bibliographical Society ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Modern Asian Art
Author: John Clark
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824821425
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A seminal publication focusing on the modern art of Japan, China, India, Thailand, and Indonesia. A significant and challenging contribution to the discussion of the advent of modernism in Asia.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824821425
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A seminal publication focusing on the modern art of Japan, China, India, Thailand, and Indonesia. A significant and challenging contribution to the discussion of the advent of modernism in Asia.