who wrote the book a history of british india
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The History of British India The History of British India is a history of Company rule in India by the 19th century British historian and imperial political theorist James Mill. This "History" went into many editions and during the 19th century became the standard reference work on its subject among British imperialists. James Mill began his History of British India in 1806, expecting it to take him about three years, but its completion proved to take instead twelve years, with three substantial volumes at last being published early in 1817. The work was immediately successful among British imperialists and secured
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An Advanced History of India An Advanced History of India is a book on Indian history written by R.C. Majumdar, H.C. Raychaudhuri and Kalikinkar Datta, first published in 1946. J. Coatman wrote in a review in the journal "International Affairs" that this book is "easily the most valuable history of India for the serious student." According to his review, the first part on Ancient India "epitomizes all that the most recent as well as older scholarship has to tell us aboth this fascinating period...", and the "Muslim and British parts of India's history are treated with fairness and dignity and
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history of Tibet. The title "Freedom in exile" refers to the freedoms he says that India offers to him. The idea for a second autobiography came from a British journalist, Alexander Norman, in the 1980s, who sat and taped the Dalai Lama for "several hours at a time" and wrote the book out of the manuscripts. The autobiography starts with the Dalai Lama's "birth to a family of small farmers", selection as the Dalai Lama, tumultuous relationship with the People's Republic of China (in which he claims many atrocities), and subsequent life in India. The book acknowledges "the cultural gaps
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to prove to the British the glory of the Sikh rise to the power in the Punjab and the complete legitimacy of Sikh domination. He was requested by Captain Murray, Agent to the Governor-General, to write the history of Sikhs, which he did under the title of the "Prachin Panth Parkash". Ratan Singh Bhangu Akali Ratan Singh Bhangu Nihang was a Sikh historian and Nihang who wrote about the Sikhs' struggles and rise to power in North India, in his book Prachin Panth Prakash. In the beginning of the 19th century the British East India Company approached the Punjab frontier.
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a guerrilla war for independence along the lines of the famous war for Indian independence of 1857. Studying the history of the revolt, from English as well as Indian sources, Savarkar wrote the book, "The History of the War of Indian Independence". He analysed the circumstances of 1857 uprising and assailed British rule in India as unjust and oppressive. It was via this book that Savarkar became one of the first writers to allude the uprising as India's "First War for Independence." The book was banned throughout the British Empire. Madame Bhikaji Cama, an expatriate Indian revolutionary obtained its publication
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include mangoes. Her book was dedicated to Lady Pentland in the occasion of her visit to Travancore, a state in India. Her recipes have been cited by historian David Burton in his study of food habits "The Raj at table: a culinary history of the British India" (London: Faber and Faber, 1993) and in Helen Saberi and David Burnett in their book "The road to Vindaloo". Beatrice A. Vieyra Beatrice A. Vieyra wrote a cookbook with Anglo-Indian recipes at the start of the twentieth century. A female cookbook writer with practical ideas about how to combine British tastes and eating
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the revised title "Who Owns India's History? A Critique of Shashi Tharoor's Inglorious Empire". Inglorious Empire Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India is a book by the Indian historian and author Shashi Tharoor. The book depicts the atrocities and wrongdoings that were committed in the Indian sub-continent during the British Raj. It was published in India under the title An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India. The event that led the author to write this book was a 2015 Oxford Union speech he delivered on the topic "Does Britain owe reparations to its former colonies?" The
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in the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", and of a chapter in a doctoral dissertation in History by Sharon M. H. MacDonald (2010). A book-length biography of Sykes was published two years before her death. Books authored by Marjorie Sykes include: Writings by others that were edited by Marjorie Sykes include: Marjorie Sykes Marjorie Sykes (1905-1995) was a British educator who went to live in India in the 1920s and joined the Indian independence movement, spending most of the remainder of her life in India. She wrote many books and became acquainted with many of the leading figures in Indian
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History of the World (book) History of the World is a compendium written by a collection of noted historians. It was edited by William Nassau Weech, M.A., a former Headmaster of Sedbergh School (and a very early aficionado of downhill skiing who also wrote "By Ski in Norway", one of the first British accounts of the sport). First published by Odhams in 1944, "History of the World" ran to three editions, the second edition in 1959, and the third in 1965. The editor, W.N. Weech, wrote in the Preface:"This book is designed for the ordinary man or woman, who should
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India Conquered India Conquered: Britain's Raj and the Chaos of Empire is a 2016 book by British historian Dr Jon E. Wilson, Reader in Modern History at King's College, London. "India Conquered" is a comprehensive history of British colonial rule in India. The book aims to lay bare that "beneath the veneer of pomp and splendour, British rule in India was anxious, fragile and fostered chaos." It demonstrates that while British colonial rulers projected themselves as heroes and nation-builders, the reality for those under occupation was "a precarious regime that provided Indian society with no leadership, and which oscillated between
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referred to as the "Sepoy Mutiny". Another book was "Kale Pani" ("Black Water" which means "life sentence" on the island prison on the Andaman islands), which reflected the treatment of Indian Independence activists by the British. To counter the then British propagated view that India's history was a saga of continuous defeat, he wrote an inspirational historical work, "Saha Soneri Pane" (Six Golden Pages), recounting some of the "Golden periods" of Indian history. At the same time, religious divisions in India were beginning to be exacerbated. He described what he saw as the atrocities of British and Muslims on Hindu
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on a reformed UN Security Council. During the British era, Indians voluntarily went to jobs in Jamaica and the West Indies. This has created a considerable population of people of Indian origin in Jamaica. India has a High Commission in Kingston, whilst Jamaica has a consulate in New Delhi and plans to upgrade it to a High Commission soon. Mexico is a very important and major economic partner of India. Nobel Prize laureate and ambassador to India Octavio Paz wrote is book "In Light of India" which is an analysis of Indian history and culture. Both nations are regional powers
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attention is drawn to the fundamentals of history - the growth of institutions, social and economic developments, and so on. Nowhere is there any rhetoric or mere opinion." An Advanced History of India An Advanced History of India is a book on Indian history written by R.C. Majumdar, H.C. Raychaudhuri and Kalikinkar Datta, first published in 1946. J. Coatman wrote in a review in the journal "International Affairs" that this book is "easily the most valuable history of India for the serious student." According to his review, the first part on Ancient India "epitomizes all that the most recent as
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Anil Laul Anil Laul (6 August 1944 – 5 July 2016) was an Indian architect and author of "Green is Red", who promoted green buildings based on low cost low embodied energy and local material based. He was a member of INTACH, and advisor to HUDCO and Delhi Urban Arts Commission, who also co-authored many housing policies of several states of India. He received several awards for his projects listed as UNCHS Good Practices. He was listed as a well-known architect of India in John T. Lang's book "A Concise History of Modern Architecture in India". He wrote a book
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and Jamaica, where Naipaul took notes for "The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies – British, French and Dutch in the West Indies and South America", his first travel book. He wrote, "The history of the islands can never be told satisfactorily. Brutality is not the only difficulty. History is built around achievement and creation; and nothing was created in the West Indies." In 1962, Naipaul and Pat went to India, the land of Naipaul's ancestors, where Naipaul wrote "An Area of Darkness". For the first time in his life, he felt anonymous, even faceless. He was no longer identified,
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on the history of the Greco-Bactrians and Indo-Greeks, thereby documenting a nearly lost area of history. In his book "The Greeks in Bactria and India", Tarn relied on classical Western and Indian sources, as well as numismatics, to give a multi-faceted account of their dynastic rule and conquest. William Woodthorpe Tarn Sir William Woodthorpe Tarn (26 February 1869 – 7 November 1957), usually cited as W. W. Tarn, was a British classical scholar and a writer. He wrote extensively on the Hellenistic world, particularly on Alexander the Great. He was a Fellow of the British Academy (1928). He was born
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of the Fox sisters. Gauld's book "A History Of Hypnotism" (1992) documents the history of hypnosis. It was positively reviewed by medical historian Roger Cooter in the "British Medical Journal" who recommended it as a "useful reference tool." The book was also positively reviewed by philosopher Peter G. Sobol who wrote that "with its broad coverage and attention to detail, this is an indispensable book for any future work on the history of hypnosis." Psychologist Geoffrey Blowers also praised the book commenting that "he steers a clear path through the large, diverse literature and avoids a partisan stance on the
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ghost stories was published. "East of Suez" sold well and her writing was compared to Rudyard Kipling where in places Punch considered her writing better. Perin wrote about the missionaries in India and she was not enthusiastic about them. The History of British India considers three books significant on missionaries to India. These were "The Old Missionary" by William Wilson Hunter, "The Hosts of the Lord" (1900) by Flora Annie Steel and Perrin's 1909 book "Idolatry". Perrin and her husband moved to Switzerland in 1925 and three years later her only child died in London. She died in Vaud in
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Caesar, Tutankhamen and others, including a Viking, a Mongol, an Assyrian and a Greek. History of the World (book) History of the World is a compendium written by a collection of noted historians. It was edited by William Nassau Weech, M.A., a former Headmaster of Sedbergh School (and a very early aficionado of downhill skiing who also wrote "By Ski in Norway", one of the first British accounts of the sport). First published by Odhams in 1944, "History of the World" ran to three editions, the second edition in 1959, and the third in 1965. The editor, W.N. Weech, wrote
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Bharat Ek Khoj Bharat Ek Khoj ("The Discovery of India") is a 53-episode Indian historical drama based on the book "The Discovery of India" (1946) by Jawaharlal Nehru that covers a 5000-year history of India from its beginnings to independence from the British in 1947. The drama was directed, written and produced by Shyam Benegal with cinematographer V. K. Murthy in 1988 for state-owned Doordarshan. Shama Zaidi co-wrote the script. Its cast included Om Puri, Roshan Seth, Tom Alter and Sadashiv Amrapurkar. Jawaharlal Nehru was portrayed by Roshan Seth, the same role he portrayed in the Oscar-winning film "Gandhi". Production
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designer Nitish Roy with assistants Samir Chanda and Nitin Desai built 144 sets. Bharat Ek Khoj Bharat Ek Khoj ("The Discovery of India") is a 53-episode Indian historical drama based on the book "The Discovery of India" (1946) by Jawaharlal Nehru that covers a 5000-year history of India from its beginnings to independence from the British in 1947. The drama was directed, written and produced by Shyam Benegal with cinematographer V. K. Murthy in 1988 for state-owned Doordarshan. Shama Zaidi co-wrote the script. Its cast included Om Puri, Roshan Seth, Tom Alter and Sadashiv Amrapurkar. Jawaharlal Nehru was portrayed by
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a congressman) wrote "My Mother India" ("c." 1930) to counter Mayo's assertions. Another response to Mayo's book was Dhan Gopal Mukerji's "A Son of Mother India Answers" (1928). The title of Mehboob Khan's 1957 Hindi epic film "Mother India" is a deliberate rebuke to Mayo's book. Mother India (book) Mother India (1927) is a polemical book by American historian Katherine Mayo which attacks Indian society, religion and culture. Written in opposition to the Indian demands for self-rule and independence from British rule, the book pointed to the treatment of India's women, the untouchables, animals, dirt, and the character of its
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India After Gandhi India after Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy is a book by Indian historian Ramachandra Guha, published by HarperCollins in August 2007. A history of the Indian nation after it gained independence from the British Empire on 15 August 1947, "India after Gandhi" was chosen Book of the Year by "The Economist", "The Wall Street Journal" and "Outlook", among others. The book won the 2011 Sahitya Akademi Award for English. "India After Gandhi" was translated into Hindi as "Bharat Gandhi Ke Baad" by "India Today" journalist Sushant Jha, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of
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1331 BS); "Prehistoric, Ancient and Hindu India" (posthumously published, 1934) and "Mahenjo-Daro – A Forgotten Report". Bandyopadhyay wrote two textbooks for Calcutta University, namely, "History of India" (1924) and "A Junior History of India" (1928). His "The Age of the Imperial Guptas" (1933) is a collection of lectures delivered by him in 1924. His standard two-volume "Bangalar Itihas" (History of Bengal) in Bengali (1914 and 1917) was one of the first attempts at writing a scientific history of Bengal. He also wrote two volumes on the history of Orissa, titled "History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British
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to write "Turmeric: The Wonder Spice". Sen's latest book "Feasts and Fasts: A History of Food in India" was published in England in 2015 and in India in 2016. Chicago Tribune called the book, "a richly detailed volume" and The Independent wrote that the book is "an ambitious tome which explores India's various dietary conventions and religions through the ages." Vir Sanghvi called "Feasts and Fasts" "a fascinating book because it overturns many of the layperson's most commonly held beliefs about Indian food". In December, Vogue included the book in its list of 16 best cookbooks of 2015 and wrote
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Cernea, who wrote a history of the Jewish community in Rangoon; Laura Hudson of the Council, and Stuart Spencer, a member of the synagogue's diaspora, as three leaders of this project. The Yangon Heritage Trust has installed a blue plaque at the synagogue, marking its historical significance. History of the Jews in Myanmar The history of Jews in Burma begins primarily in the mid-19th century, when hundreds of Jews immigrated from Iraq during the British colonial period. Cochin Jews came from India and both groups were part of the development of the British Empire, becoming allied with the British in
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which also marked the launch of the book. The book combines archival research, images and interviews to tell the story of the physicians who immigrated to Britain from South Asia and entered general practice during the first four decades of the National Health Service. It focuses on physicians from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Intended for students and academic researchers with an interest in the history of migration, South Asian studies, oral history and the history of medicine, the book is also of interest to those curious about the links between the British Empire and medical migration. The book
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tone of most environmental texts, and asked why this should be so for a book that looks at a land of such natural and cultural diversity. This Fissured Land This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India is a book by Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha on the ecological history of India. It examines 'prudent' (sustainable) and 'profligate' (unsustainable) use of natural resources, and their effects. It describes the ecological history of India, from the first humans, through the ages of hunter-gatherers, farmers, empires and the British Raj. The book is split into three parts, as follows: Part 1 introduces
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the Raj. "India Conquered" was praised in the "Financial Times" as a "virtuoso takedown of cherished shibboleths of Raj mythology." The reviewer wrote that the book exposed "an arrogant, racist and disdainful attitude towards Indians, and also a belief that British power in India had to be absolute." In "The Financial Express" "India Conquered" is described as an "extensively researched" work which "proves how the British rule was not beneficial for India and how the British never assimilated themselves with the society, systems and culture of this country." India Conquered India Conquered: Britain's Raj and the Chaos of Empire is
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"Sufism: The heart of Islam" published by HarperCollins Publishers, India. Her second book, "The Sufi Courtyard: Dargahs of Delhi", detailing Delhi's Sufi history was also published by HarperCollins, India and released in February 2012. She edited "Bano" an Urdu women's journal for the Shama Group, a renowned name in Urdu publishing which published "Shama" an Urdu literary and film monthly. It eventually closed in 1987. Dehlvi was a close friend and confidante of the late author Khushwant Singh. Singh's book "Not a Nice Man to Know" was dedicated to her. He wrote, "To Sadia Dehlvi, who gave me more affection
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maintained, he used statistical information supplied by the President of Columbia. The book includes photographs that he took himself. His second book on South America was "Simon Bolivar—El Libertador; a life of the chief leader in the revolt against Spain in Venezuela, New Granada and Peru." Francis Loraine Petre Francis Loraine Petre (22 February 1852 – 6 May 1925) was a British civil servant in India and a military historian upon his retirement. He wrote a two-volume regimental history of the Norfolk Regiment, but is best known for his works on the Napoleonic Wars. The grandson of the 11th Baron
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history from a British viewpoint, drawing on a vast range of actors on this great stage, including lesser-known British sympathisers who fought on either side in this conflict or journalists." Adam I.P. Smith of "History Today" said, "Amanda Foreman's magnificent new book . . . resembles nothing so much as "War and Peace"." In a rare accolade, "The New York Times Book Review" awarded Foreman her second cover review. Michael Burlingame of "The Wall Street Journal" heralded Foreman as "such an engaging writer that readers may find this 958-page volume too short". Hendrik Hertzberg of "The New Yorker" wrote: "The
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of British Columbia. During her career she wrote extensively about the history and political development of British Columbia. In 1976 she was editor of the book "A Pioneer Gentle Woman in British Columbia: the Recollections of Susan Allison". Ormsby's 1958 book, "British Columbia: A History", provided a framework for both timeline and causation of historical events in British Columbia's past. The book has been used as a resource by many historians and teachers. Although the book is more than 60 years old, it is still held in more than 350 libraries in 2018. Ormsby posited a series of propositions that
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The Discovery of India The Discovery of India was written by India's first Prime Minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru during his imprisonment in 1942–46 at Ahmednagar fort in Maharashtra, India by British during the rule of East India Company. "The Discovery of India" is an honour paid to the rich cultural heritage of India, its history and its philosophy as seen through the eyes of a patriot fighting for the independence of his country. The book is widely considered one of the finest modern works on Indian history. book written in 1944 but published in 1946 as per ground sources The
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Edition: British In India’. This series included 30 books on India containing various topics or problems caused by the British rule. It has been included in the reading lists of courses in Sociology, Political Science, Development Studies and other related Social Sciences in many Universities in the US, European Union and India. The book has been reviewed in international Journals including "World Development" and "Journal of Development Studies". The former characterized the book as "thoughtful and stimulating": Sen convincingly shows that his account is consistent with much that Marx wrote. In his most carefully considered work Marx does not unlike
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British aircraft the English Electric Canberra). The Indian Air Force employed Russian and British aircraft like the Hawker Hunter, Folland Gnat and the MiG-21s. The book describes the day-to-day operations of the Indian Air Force and is the first detailed account of the airwar from the Indian side. Some reviews of the Book are available on the authors' web site at BharatRakshak.com. The India-Pakistan Air War of 1965 The India-Pakistan Air War of 1965 is a 2005 aviation history book written by PVS Jagan Mohan and Samir Chopra. The book deals with the Indian Air Force's role in the Indo-Pakistani
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African church history. He wrote several books on the subject, including "Bantu Prophets in South Africa" in 1945, which was translated into several languages. As ecumenist he documented Church of South India from 1900 to 1947, a cross denominational church merger in India. The book "Christian Ministry in Africa" were published in 1960. As a university teacher in Sweden he published "Missionens värld" in 1963 and a Swedish missionary atlas 1957. He wrote of the Swedish Tanzania Mission's history in the books "Young Church in Tanganyika" (1948) ‘Bara Bukoba’’ 1974. His most comprehensive work is the 1200-page African church history
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Wings: 400 years of St.Michael’s Church, Anjuna" With a scholarship from the Heras Institute, she studied the Goan diaspora, publishing a book "Goans in Kenya". Until the 1960s, east Africa had been a major centre of Goan migration. This book became an important source book for succeeding researchers. Albuquerque published several works on the colonial history of India, especially on the intersection of Portuguese and British rules. Following the 1878 treaty between Britain and Portugal, the Goan economy became subject to British control. Commodities flowed into British India while the Portuguese raised taxes in Goa to compensate for the loss
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prostitution and venereal diseases and, most importantly, to too early sexual intercourse and premature maternity. Mayo's claims were supported by British Indian authorities as a countermeasure to growing sympathies for the Indian Independence Movement against British rule in the region. The book was thus received enthusiastically by British authorities and propagated among Americans who related the movement for Indian independence with the American Revolution. Mayo's claims and perceptions of Indian society became one of the most negative influences on the American people's view of India in history. The book prompted the publication of over fifty critical books and pamphlets and
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Debits and Credits (book) Debits and Credits is a collection of fourteen stories, nineteen poems, and two scenes from a play by Rudyard Kipling, a British writer who wrote extensively about British colonialism in India and Burma. In 1907, he became the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. The collection was first published in 1926 and includes bitter and bleak stories about subjects such as adultery, war, death, disease, and the passage of time as a harbinger of sorrow. Most of the stories in this collection are framed by poems. Four of the poems that accompany the
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stories are whimsically presented as translations from the "Bk. V of Odes" by Horace but are actually poems by Kipling imitating the style of the Roman poet. The copyright in the United States expires in 2020. Debits and Credits (book) Debits and Credits is a collection of fourteen stories, nineteen poems, and two scenes from a play by Rudyard Kipling, a British writer who wrote extensively about British colonialism in India and Burma. In 1907, he became the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. The collection was first published in 1926 and includes bitter and bleak stories
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The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians is a book comprising translations of medieval Persian chronicles based on the work of Henry Miers Elliot. It was originally published as a set of eight volumes between 1867-1877 in London. The translations were in part overseen by Elliot, whose efforts were then extended and edited posthumously by John Dowson. The book has been reprinted several times, and is also available online. Elliot was keen to contrast what he saw as the justice and efficiency of the British rule compared
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and speechlessness inflicted by his strokes. He died of cerebral haemorrhage and arteriosclerosis in 1927. On his deathbed, Dyer reportedly said: The "Morning Post" remembered him in an article titled "The Man Who Saved India" and "He Did His Duty" but the (Liberal) "Westminster Gazette" wrote a contrary opinion: "No British action, during the whole course of our history in India, has struck a severer blow to Indian faith in British justice than the massacre at Amritsar." Historian Gordon Johnson commented that "...Dyer's actions ran counter to Army regulations. These required that force should be constrained by what was reasonable
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James Salmond Major-General James Hanson Salmond (1766–1837) was an officer in the East India Company's Forces who went on to be Military Secretary to the East India Company. Salmond, a subaltern in the East India Company's Forces, was commissioned into the British Army in 1796. He was appointed Adjutant of the 1st Regiment of Royal East India Volunteers later that year. He was appointed Military Secretary to the East India Company in 1809 and promoted to Major-General in 1837. He also wrote a history of the Anglo-Mysore Wars. In 1798 he married Louisa Scott and then in 1808 he married
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This Fissured Land This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India is a book by Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha on the ecological history of India. It examines 'prudent' (sustainable) and 'profligate' (unsustainable) use of natural resources, and their effects. It describes the ecological history of India, from the first humans, through the ages of hunter-gatherers, farmers, empires and the British Raj. The book is split into three parts, as follows: Part 1 introduces the concept of "Modes of resource use". According to Sonja Brodt of the University of Hawaii, the authors based this classification on the "Marxist 'mode of
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Roberts wrote the book "Sowers of Thunder: Giants in Myth and History" in 1978, in which he claimed that giants were the original inhabitants of the British Isles and linked Alfred Watkins' ley lines to the British giants. Giants (esotericism) In esoteric and occult teachings, giants are beings who live on spiritual, etheric and physical planes of existence. Giants were a popular theme in theosophical literature, Atlantis, lost continents and later the earth mysteries movement of Britain in the 1970s. The concept of giants was discussed by the theosophist and occult author Blavatsky who wrote about the existence of giants
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literary style. In his book "Tawzinul-Aqwal", known for its highly critical and inflammatory nature, Imadud-Din Lahiz criticised the style and language of the Quran, raised numerous objections against the personality of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and had criticised the concept of Jihad in Islam. He also wrote addressing the British government in India at the time alleging that Ghulam Ahmad who had claimed to be the Mahdi was working towards the overthrow of the government and was preparing to wage a jihad against the British authorities. In the first part of "Noorul-Haq", Ghulam Ahmad has taken each objection individually and
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School of Oriental and African Studies", Digby stated that estimate lacks accurate data in pre-census times. Marxist historian Irfan Habib criticized the book in his "Economic History of the Delhi Sultanate"(1978). K. S. Lal wrote a reply to Irfan Habib's criticism in 1979 in his book "Bias in Indian Historiography" (1979) and "Theory and Practice of Muslim State in India" (1999). Koenraad Elst, a Hindutva sympathizer, referred to Lal's statistics in his book "Negationism in India", remarking that "More research is needed before we can settle for a quantitatively accurate evaluation of Muslim rule in India, but at least we
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Charles Stuart (East India Company officer) Charles Stuart (c. 1758 – 31 March 1828) was an officer in the East India Company Army and is well known for being one of the few British officers to embrace Hindu culture while stationed there, earning the nickname Hindoo Stuart. He also wrote books and several newspaper articles extolling Hindu culture and tradition and urging its adoption by Europeans settled in India, and deploring the attitudes and activities of the Utilitarians and missionaries who deprecated Indian culture. He is mentioned in William Dalrymple's book "White Mughals" (2002). Stuart was said to be the
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Hindu ethics, scriptures and practices. He has represented the Hindu religion at the Millennium World Peace Summit. In 1999 he wrote "The True History and the Religion of India: A Concise Encyclopedia of Authentic Hinduis", a "monumental dissertation" on the history of Indian civilization and religion. The eight-hundred-page tome is entitled "The True History and the Religion of India". It is a comprehensive history of religion in Indian culture. The book has received laudatory comments from prominent Hindu academics and leaders in the United States and India. It was released by The Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting Shri
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The Indian Struggle The great Indian Struggle, 1920–1942 is a two-part book by the Indian nationalist leader Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose that covers the 1920–1942 history of the Indian independence movement to end British imperial rule over India. Banned in India by the British colonial government, "The Indian Struggle" was published in the country only in 1948 after India became independent. The book analyses a period of the Indian independence struggle from the Non-Cooperation and Khilafat Movements of the early 1920s to the Quit India and Azad Hind movements of the early 1940s. The first part of "The Indian Struggle"
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one of the few British soldiers who had fought in that campaign, as part of the 29th Armoured Brigade. During this period he also wrote three popular history paperbacks for the Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II series: "Bastogne: the road block" (Battle book, No. 4); "Battle of the Reichwald" (Battle book, No. 19); and "Condor Legion" (Weapons book, No. 35). These are probably his best-selling works. Elstob's writing included two other novels, "The Armed Rehearsal" (1960), about the Spanish Civil War, and "Scoundrel" (1986). He claimed that the last was based on a con man he had met
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All of these were edited by Hunter, who formed the original plan of the work in 1869. A parallel series of publications known as the "Imperial Gazetteer of India: Provincial Series" were prepared. The Imperial Gazetteer of India The Imperial Gazetteer of India was a gazetteer of the British Indian Empire, and is now a historical reference work. It was first published in 1881. Sir William Wilson Hunter made the original plans of the book, starting in 1869. The 1908, 1909 and 1931 "New Editions" have four encyclopedic volumes covering the geography, history, economics, and administration of India, 20 volumes
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India, Y. Venugopal Reddy, wrote, "It's a sort of recent oral history of a financial institution. Tamal has set a new trend in the dissemination of knowledge." Tamal's second book, "Sahara: The Untold Story", details the beginnings and the current day working of the secretive Sahara India Parivar. The book was well researched, with interviews with people concerned, including Subrata Roy. In December 2013, the Sahara India Pariwar, moved Calcutta High Court, got a stay on the publication of the book and filed a Rs 2 billion defamation suit against the author and its publisher, Jaico Publishing House. In April
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particular attention from James Tod, a Company employee who was enamoured of Rajputana and wrote extensively, if often uncritically, of the people, history and geography of the Agency as a whole. Alliances were formed between the Company and these various princely and chiefly entities in the early 19th century, accepting British sovereignty in return for local autonomy and protection from the Marathas. Following the Mughal tradition and more importantly due to its strategic location Ajmer became a province of British India, while the autonomous Rajput states, the Muslim state Tonk (princely state), and the Jat states Bharatpur, [Dholpur] were organized
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in Lahore. Marmaduke Pickthall, famous British Muslim and translator of the Quran into English, wrote a review of Muhammad Ali's book "The Religion of Islam" when this book was published in 1936. The review was published in the journal "Islamic Culture" of Hyderabad Deccan (India), whose editor was Pickthall. In this review Pickthall wrote: Muhammad Ali (writer) Muhammad Ali (; ‎; 1874 – 13 October 1951) was an Indian writer, scholar, and leading figure of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam. Ali was born in Murar, Kapurthala State (now in Ludhiana district, Punjab, India) in 1874. He
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James Skinner (East India Company officer) Colonel James Skinner CB (1778 – 4 December 1841) was an Anglo-Indian military adventurer in India, who became known as "Sikandar Sahib" later in life, and is most known for two cavalry regiments he raised for the British, later known as 1st Skinner's Horse and 3rd Skinner's Horse (formerly 2nd Skinner's Horse) at Hansi in 1803, which still are a part of the Indian Army He was a fluent writer in Persian, the court and intellectual language of India in his day, and wrote several books in Persian, including "Kitab-i tasrih al-aqvam" (History of
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George P. Sanderson George Peress Sanderson (1848–1892) was a British naturalist who worked in the public works department in the princely state of Mysore. He began a system for capturing wild elephants that were destructive to agriculture so as to use them in captivity. He was known in the popular press as the "Elephant King" and wrote a book on his life in the forests of India. Rudyard Kipling is believed to have modelled the character "Petersen Sahib" in his "Toomai of the elephants" after him. Sanderson was born in India in 1848, the son of Rev. Daniel Sanderson, who
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the fighting - shortly after the victory. Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain () is a Second World War military history book by English author Len Deighton. First published in 1977, "Fighter" was Deighton's first history book, he having made his name as a writer of spy fiction. Deighton was encouraged to write the book by his friend, the British historian A.J.P. Taylor, who wrote the introduction to "Fighter". "Fighter" covers the traditional period of the Battle of Britain and the build-up to it, describing the war in
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Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain () is a Second World War military history book by English author Len Deighton. First published in 1977, "Fighter" was Deighton's first history book, he having made his name as a writer of spy fiction. Deighton was encouraged to write the book by his friend, the British historian A.J.P. Taylor, who wrote the introduction to "Fighter". "Fighter" covers the traditional period of the Battle of Britain and the build-up to it, describing the war in the air as much from the German
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White Mughals White Mughals is a 2002 history book by William Dalrymple. It is Dalrymple's fifth major book, and tells the true story of a love affair that took place in early nineteenth century Hyderabad between James Achilles Kirkpatrick and Khair-un-Nissa Begum. The book is a work of social history about the warm relations that existed between the British and some Indians in the 18th and early 19th century, when one in three British men in India was married to an Indian woman. It documents the inter-ethnic liaisons between British officers, such as Major-General Charles Stuart, and Indian women, and
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as newspaper records, housed at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. The private papers of Indian independence activist and politician C Rajagopalachari and PN Haksar, Indira Gandhi’s principal secretary 1967 and 1973, were especially useful to Guha's research. Guha sent across his final draft to Straus in 2006, and the book was published in 2007. India After Gandhi India after Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy is a book by Indian historian Ramachandra Guha, published by HarperCollins in August 2007. A history of the Indian nation after it gained independence from the British Empire on 15 August 1947,
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sympathetic and romantic portrayal of the marriage between a British civil servant and a Hindu widow just before the Indian Mutiny. Taylor himself is thought to have married in about 1830, although his autobiography states 1840, to Mary Palmer, the Eurasian granddaughter of William Palmer, the East India Company's Resident at Hyderabad (who had married "one of the Princesses of the Royal House of Delhi"). Returning to India he acted from 1840 to 1853 as correspondent for "The Times". He also wrote a "Student's Manual of the History of India" (1870). About 1850, Meadows Taylor was appointed by the Nizam's
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In 1919, he served on the British Mission to Palestine and Syria. As an author his major works are "The Valley of Kashmir" (1895) and "The India we served" (1929). Lawrence was the first man who reported about the miseries faced by the people of Kashmir under the autocratic rule of Dogras. He wrote in his book "The Valley of Kashmir": He died at the age of 83 on 25 May 1940. Walter Roper Lawrence Sir Walter Roper Lawrence, 1st Baronet, (9 February 1857 – 25 May 1940) was a member of the British Council-09 and an English author who
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Alexander Cunningham Sir Alexander Cunningham (23 January 1814 – 28 November 1893) was a British army engineer with the Bengal Engineer Group who later took an interest in the history and archaeology of India. In 1861 he was appointed to the newly created position of archaeological surveyor to the government of India; and he founded and organised what later became the Archaeological Survey of India. He wrote numerous books and monographs and made extensive collections of artefacts. Some of his collections were lost, but most of the gold and silver coins and a fine group of Buddhist sculptures and jewellery
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engagement with neighbouring states such as Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia. He was a mentor and inspiration to several celebrated Anglo-Indian statesmen – among them Henry Pottinger, Charles Metcalfe, Alexander Burnes and Henry Rawlinson Malcolm wrote nine books, plus a volume of poetry, as follows: "Sketch of the Sikhs", 1812 "Sketch of the Political History of India," 1811 "Disturbances in the Madras Army in 1809," 1812 "The History of Persia," 1815 "A Memoir of Central India," 1823 "The Political History of India," 1826 "Sketches of Persia; this book is not written by Malcolm,but by one of his companions in his
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on hold after budgetary concerns and opposition from the Indian government, reportedly concerned about an alleged affair between Jawaharlal Nehru and the wife of the last viceroy of the British Indian Empire, Lady Edwina Mountbatten. Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire (2007) is a history book written by Alex von Tunzelmann. The book covers the end of the British Empire and the Partition of India that resulted in millions of deaths. "An extra ordinary saga of romance, history, religion, and political intrigue." It was
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Mildred Archer Mildred Archer OBE (28 December 1911 in London – 4 February 2005) was an English art historian who specialized in 18th- and 19th-century art in British India. She was curator of Prints and Drawings at the India Office Library and wrote extensively on the collection and studies on them. Born Mildred Agnes Bell, she attended school in London. In 1930 she joined St Hilda's College, Oxford with a history scholarship. She met Bill Archer, who had been a friend of her brother at Cambridge. Bill had passed the Indian Civil Service examination and was in the School of
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e Fluviis" meaning, "Let it grow from the rivers" was the Latin motto used in the Coat of arms for Punjab Province. As per the book "History of the Sikhs" written by Khushwant Singh, it means Strength from the Rivers. Punjab Province (British India) Punjab, also spelled Panjab, was a province of British India. Most of the Punjab region was annexed by the East India Company in 1849, and was one of the last areas of the Indian subcontinent to fall under British control. It comprised five administrative divisions, Delhi, Jullundur, Lahore, Multan and Rawalpindi and a number of princely
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in 1923 and joined the Ulster Special Constabulary in 1924. Crosse wrote a book on the history of his former regiment: titled A Short History of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1741 - 1922. He died in Crewe, Cheshire. Richard Crosse (British Army officer) Lieutenant Colonel Richard Crosse DSO & Bar (1888–1970) was a British Army officer who commanded the 2nd Battalion The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (The 52nd) on the Western Front. He was twice awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He later joined the Ulster Special Constabulary. Richard Banestre Crosse was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire. Crosse was
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Monsters: History's Most Evil Men and Women Monsters: History's Most Evil Men and Women is a non-fiction history book by the British Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, who also wrote 'Jerusalem: The Biography', 'Young Stalin', and 'Heroes - History's Greatest Men and Women', to which this book is a counter. The book discusses the lives of many historical figures, infamous for their deeds, ranging from Ivan the Terrible who killed his son, to Pol Pot the brutal dictator who strived to forge a country of only farmers, wiping out almost half of his subjects. Montefiore covers 136 individuals over 319 pages
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a chapter on India and Afghanistan to "The Cambridge Modern History" and the "Grolier Society Book of History". In 1904, he authored a biography of 1st Marquess of Dalhousie. He published another small book entitled "The Citizen of India", which according to "The Times" in 1914, "met with hearty approval among thoughtful Indians as setting a high and just ideal of civic duty and British and Indian cooperation." He received an honorary LL.D. from Cambridge. In 1895, Lord George Hamilton requested Lee-Warner return to England to serve as Secretary of the Political and Secret Department at the India Office. He
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her book "India: A Sacred Geography", that idea of India dates to a much earlier time than the British or the Mughals and it wasn't just a cluster of regional identities and it wasn't ethnic or racial. History of India The history of India includes the prehistoric settlements and societies in the Indian subcontinent; the advancement of civilisation from the Indus Valley Civilisation to the eventual blending of the Indo-Aryan culture to form the Vedic Civilisation; the rise of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism; the onset of a succession of powerful dynasties and empires for more than three millennia throughout various
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Feathered Tribes of the British Islands" (2 vols., 1834) and "The Natural History of Birds" (1834); he also wrote on other aspects of biology. He was also the author of books on natural philosophy, mental and moral philosophy, China, India, copyright, and the seasons of the year. Mudie wrote the greater part of the natural history section of the "British Cyclopaedia" (1834), the text to Gilbert's "Modern Atlas of the Earth" (1840), and a topographical account of Selborne prefixed to Gilbert White's "Natural History of Selborne" (new edn, 1850). Mudie died at Pentonville on 29 April 1842, leaving destitute the
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Guha explored Baloo's story further, the book expanded to become a social history of cricket in India. On the subject of the book, Guha has written, "The making of modern India is its theme, with cricket serving merely as a vehicle, as my chief source of illustrative example." An early edition cover featured a picture of author RK Narayan playing cricket with his nephews and niece. A Corner of a Foreign Field A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport is a 2002 book by Indian historian Ramachandra Guha that offers a historical account of
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after reading some of his articles in a magazine called "Blitz". Goel asked for permission to reprint the articles in a book. Gautier instead wrote the book "The Wonder That Is India". Later, the website "Hinduism Today" republished it online. Following this, Gautier wrote several other books. Gautier has worked on a book about the martial art Kalaripayattu of South India with photographer Raghu Rai. In 2010, an anonymously authored novel titled "Hindutva, Sex and Adventure" featuring a foreign radio journalist who came to India and became a Hindutva sympathizer, was released. The book's protagonist was considered a thinly veiled
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by Falcon Press in 1950. She wrote on a diverse range of subjects that included British and local history, particularly of her native Cotswolds, produced a number of works with her husband, who was an expert on British canals, and wrote a children's series known as "The Williver chronicles". She produced an adaption of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le morte d'Arthur" and a scholarly study of The Chartist Land Company. Her last book was a biographical study of Charles Williams, finished with the help of her husband as her faculties were beginning to fail, and her last work was an edited
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Harlan had been working on a longer book called "The British Empire in India", but the news of the almost total annihilation of the British force retreating from Kabul in the Hindu Kush in January 1842 attracted much media attention in the United States, causing Harlan to try to cash in with his hastily written and published "A Memoir of India and Afghanistan". Harlan attacked his old British enemies from Afghanistan and called the British imperial system despicable. Most alarmingly, he wrote about the ease with which Russia could, if it so chose, attack and seriously harm the British Empire.
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was shot at various locations in the suburbs north of Kota Kinabalu, including Menggatal, Telipok, Kayu Madang and Lapasan. Another English author Redmond O'Hanlon also wrote a book titled "Into the Heart of Borneo" (1984) about Borneo island. While Sydney-based Australian author Lynette Ramsay Silver wrote two books about the history of Sabah such as "Sandakan – A Conspiracy of Silence" (1998) and "Blood Brothers – Sabah and Australia 1942–1945" (2010). In early 2016, a "Roll of Honour" immortalising 2,479 British and Australian soldiers who died in Sabah during the World War II has been presented by a British Royal
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Rajputana Agency included 18 princely states, two chiefships and the British district of Ajmer-Merwara. This British official term remained until its replacement by "Rajasthan" in the constitution of 1949. George Thomas ("Military Memories") was the first in 1800, to term this region the "Rajputana Agency". The historian John Keay in his book, "India: A History", stated that the "Rajputana" name was coined by the British, but that the word achieved a retrospective authenticity: in an 1829 translation of Ferishta's history of early Islamic India, John Briggs discarded the phrase "Indian princes", as rendered in Dow's earlier version, and substituted "Rajpoot
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wrote, "Overall, this is a thorough historical guide to the political parties, and will serve as a very useful reference book for students of both history and politics at all levels. A glossary or 'concepts' guide would have been a bonus for the new or less patient student." N.W. Polsby of the University of California, Berkeley reviewed the book for "Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries", and wrote, "The total absence of bibliographical aids is a weakness of this book. Its strengths are its plainly factual and accessible writing. This is a book to be consulted, not read straight through.
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INDIPEX 2011, the World Philatelic Exhibition held in New Delhi, the capital of India. Postage stamps and postal history of India This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of India. Indian postal systems for efficient military and governmental communications had developed long before the arrival of Europeans. When the Portuguese, Dutch, French, Danish and British displaced The Marathas who had already defeated the Mughals, their postal systems existed alongside those of many somewhat independent states. The British East India Company gradually displaced other powers and brought into existence a British administrative system over most of India,
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is a description of the British summertime capital Shimla in the Himalayas and how supplies were carried up steep mountains by porters each year. On the theme of partition, the book relates that the crucial maps setting the boundary separating India and Pakistan were drawn that year by Cyril Radcliffe, who had not visited India before being appointed as the chairman of the Boundary Commission. It depicts the fury of both Hindus and Muslims, misled by their communal leaders, during the partition, and the biggest mass slaughter in the history of India as millions of people were uprooted by the
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conquest of Gandhara and much of northwest India by Mahmud of Ghazni following his defeat of Jayapala in the Battle of Peshawar at Peshawar in 1001: By the time Gandhara had been absorbed into the empire of Mahmud of Ghazni, Buddhist buildings were already in ruins and Gandhara art had been forgotten. After Al-Biruni, the Kashmiri writer Kalhaṇa wrote his book "Rajatarangini" in 1151. He recorded some events that took place in Gandhara, and provided details about its last royal dynasty and capital Udabhandapura. In the 19th century, British soldiers and administrators started taking an interest in the ancient history
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it is the eternal foe….Standing at one of the cross-roads of world-history, I solemnly declare on behalf of all freedom-loving Indians in India and abroad, that we shall continue to fight British imperialism till India is once again the mistress of her own destiny. During this struggle, and in the reconstruction that will follow, we shall heartily co-operate with all those who will help us in overthrowing the common enemy….The hour of India’s salvation is at hand." Following this broadcast, Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, wrote "We shall now begin our official fight on behalf of India." The broadcasts
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Engineers, India, a founder member and President of the Indian Institute of Surveying & Mapping, and also President of the Institution of Military Engineers, India. Williams was a keen ornithologist and wrote a book on birdwatching in India. He was a founder-member of the Federation for the Welfare of Mentally Retarded Children in India. Williams joined the Alpine Club in 1953 and participated in a number of minor Himalayan expeditions, including Trisul and Bandarpunch. He was President of the Himalayan Club from 1960 to 1963. Harold Williams (British Army officer) Lieutenant-General Sir Harold Williams (1 June 1897 – 17 October
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Razmnamah (British Library, Or. 12076) The illustrated Mughal manuscript Razmnama of British library Or.12076 is a translation of Hindu epic Mahabharata written by Naqib khan copied in AH 1007 (1598/99) and containing the concluding part sections 14-18 with Some detached part. Contemporary author Badaunī's Muntakhab al-tavārīkh describes the translation process: Collecting together the learned men of India, His Majesty directed that the book Mahabharat should be translated. For some nights His Majesty personally (had it) explained to Naqib Khan, who wrote out the resultant text in Persian. On the third night His Majesty summoned me and ordered me to translate
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an eponymous film. It was burned in India and New York, along with an effigy of its author. It was criticized by Mahatma Gandhi, who wrote in response: After its publication Dalip Singh Saund (later a congressman) wrote "My Mother India" to counter Mayo's assertions. Another response to Mayo's book was Dhan Gopal Mukerji's "A Son of Mother India Answers". The title of the 1957 Hindi epic film "Mother India" was a deliberate rebuke to Mayo's book. Katherine Mayo Katherine Mayo (January 27, 1867 – October 9, 1940) was an American researcher and historian. Mayo entered public life as a
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rowing team. In his book "Master of Bengal: Clive and his India", Percival Spear wrote, "The dominion of Bengal was not desired in itself, but only as a safeguard] for peaceful commercial operations ... Rule by legal fiction and by deputy was both safer and cheaper in the conditions of the time." Percival Spear Thomas George Percival Spear (1901–1982) was an English historian who spent much of his life living and teaching in India. An accomplished historian of modern Indian social history, he taught at both Cambridge University and St. Stephen's College with great distinction. In 1943 he became deputy
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more representative government to India, expressing fear that this would lead to a "murderous anarchy." His opinion of British activity in the Transvaal was well voiced in the Canadian press and in his book "In The Court of History: An Apology of Canadians Opposed to the Boer War" (1902). This work is a fascinating articulation of pacifist opposition to the Second Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902. It is important because it is amongst the few expressions of opposition toward from the perspective of an Anglo-colonial settler. Smith wrote, "The Jewish objective has always been the same, since Roman times. We regard
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Zindagi (novel) "Zindagi is an award winning book from British India that shares moral and ethical lessons in life and the punishments and rewards in ones afterlife in a humorous and entertaining way. Zindagi was written in 1930's British India and by a leader and thinker of the Free India movement in The Punjab, while in Jail for non-violently protesting British Colonial rule of India." Chaudhry Afzal Haq (died 8 January 1942) was a Writer, Humanitarian, Leader of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam and a senior political figure in the history of South Asia. He Worked to help the poor and unrepresented in the
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History of the British Raj The history of the British Raj refers to the period of British rule on the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947. The system of governance was instituted in 1858 when the rule of the East India Company was transferred to the Crown in the person of Queen Victoria (who in 1876 was proclaimed Empress of India). It lasted until 1947, when the British provinces of India were partitioned into two sovereign dominion states: the "Dominion of India" and the "Dominion of Pakistan", leaving the princely states to choose between them. The two new dominions later
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War II. He completed his thesis on the conditions of the British railway and steam ship enterprise in India in 1950, later published as a book. He subsequently joined the University of Pennsylvania South Asia Regional Studies Program to teach Indian economic history. He married Alice Thorner, who was a collaborator and co-author of many of his works on India. During the 1950s, under Senator Joseph McCarthy, there was a "witchhunt" for leftist economists, and Thorner would not divulge the names of his leftist friends. Thus he lost his job and a government-funded fellowship for a project in India. He
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Postage stamps and postal history of India This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of India. Indian postal systems for efficient military and governmental communications had developed long before the arrival of Europeans. When the Portuguese, Dutch, French, Danish and British displaced The Marathas who had already defeated the Mughals, their postal systems existed alongside those of many somewhat independent states. The British East India Company gradually displaced other powers and brought into existence a British administrative system over most of India, with a need to establish and maintain both official and commercial mail systems. Although
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second novel was "Sins of the Mothers" (Andrew Melrose, London, 1918). A review in "The Spectator" states: "This novel chiefly deals with the mental procurement of a family of children who are left motherless—though by no means fatherless.The clash of temperaments inherited respectively from the father and mother is the chief motive of the book." In his review, Stopford Brooke wrote: ". . . "Unhappy in Thy Daring" has gone on selling steadily, and finding its way into all corners of the British Empire and India. The new book is again a psychological study of temperament, of passion, and of
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for members of the various European East India Companies in Surat since probably the 17th century and their success came because they were able to mobilise public opinion and procure support for their cause from both from British and Indian leaders and through books detailing their claimed history. The sociologist A. M. Shah says that the Mahyavanshi "have an elaborate mythology, caste journals, and written "laws" to regulate the affairs of the caste". A prominent figure in re-writing the history of the /Vankars was Makanji Kuber Makwana, who wrote several works on their putative ancient history and genealogy that linked
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Douche" had not been able to prevent". Despite the popular reception for his book, a contemporary review in the Pall Mall Gazette of his book "Tribes on my frontier" termed his work as being entirely based on the kind of humour established by Phil Robinson. The review said: His books include After returning to Edinburgh, he wrote a series of articles on birdlife in the "Strand Magazine". Edward Hamilton Aitken Edward Hamilton Aitken (16 August 1851, Satara, India – 11 April 1909, Edinburgh) was a civil servant in India, better known for his humorist writings on natural history in India
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William Dalrymple announced that Ralph Fiennes would direct and star in the movie version of "White Mughals". White Mughals White Mughals is a 2002 history book by William Dalrymple. It is Dalrymple's fifth major book, and tells the true story of a love affair that took place in early nineteenth century Hyderabad between James Achilles Kirkpatrick and Khair-un-Nissa Begum. The book is a work of social history about the warm relations that existed between the British and some Indians in the 18th and early 19th century, when one in three British men in India was married to an Indian woman.
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a companion series about British wildlife called "The Nature of Britain", also presented by Titchmarsh. A 3-disc Region 2 and 4 DVD set (BBCDVD1506) featuring all eight episodes was released on 29 November 2004. Titchmarsh wrote an accompanying book, also called "British Isles: A Natural History", and released by BBC Books on 1 October 2004. () British Isles – A Natural History British Isles – A Natural History is an eight-part documentary series produced by the BBC Natural History Unit and presented by Alan Titchmarsh. Originally broadcast in the UK on BBC1 from September to November 2004, it took viewers
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the headquarters of İsmet Pasha, Commander of the Western Front and wrote her impressions of the scorched earth policy of the invading Greek army and the Greek atrocities in Western Anatolia in her book "The Turkish Ordeal". In 1926, Halide Edib and many associates were accused of treason. She and her husband escaped to Europe. They lived in France and the United Kingdom from 1926 to 1939. Halide Edib traveled widely, teaching and lecturing repeatedly in the United States and in India. She collected her impressions of India as a British colony in her book "Inside India". She returned to
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A. Seidman. Nicholas Whyte of the website Northern Ireland Access Research Knowledge (ARK) wrote, "For general information about political parties in Northern Ireland since 1922, the whole of Ireland 1801–1922, England, Scotland, and Wales, I urge you to get hold of Politico's Guide to the History of British Political Parties by David Boothroyd available from Politico's." The History of British Political Parties The History of British Political Parties, also referred to as Politico's Guide to the History of British Political Parties, is a reference book about political parties in the United Kingdom. Written by David Boothroyd, it was published in
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