The Elizabethan Secretariat and the Signet Office
The Elizabethan Secretariat and the Signet Office

Author: Angela Andreani

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-03-31

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 135176425X

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This book investigates the work of the Elizabethan secretariat during the fascinating decade of the 1590s. Through original sources in the State Papers and Cecil Papers, the book reconstructs the work of the Queen’s clerks and secretaries in the years when the position of principal secretary was formally vacant.

Archiving the British Raj
Archiving the British Raj

Author: Sabyasachi Bhattacharya

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-10-18

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0199095582

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The archives are generally sites where historians conduct research into our past. Seldom are they objects of research. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya traces the path that led to the creation of a central archive in India, from the setting up of the Imperial Record Department, the precursor of the National Archives of India, and the Indian Historical Records Commission, to the framing of archival policies and the change in those policies over the years. In the last two decades of colonial rule in India, there were anticipations of freedom in many areas of the public sphere. These were felt in the domain of archiving as well, chiefly in the form of reversal of earlier policies. From this perspective, Bhattacharya explores the relation between knowledge and power and discusses how the World Wars and the decline of Britain, among other factors, effected a transition from a Eurocentric and disparaging approach to India towards a more liberal and less ethnocentric one.

Routledge Library Editions: History of China
Routledge Library Editions: History of China

Author: Various

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-06-23

Total Pages: 3987

ISBN-13: 042984851X

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This 11-volume set gathers together some key older titles on China’s history. Encompassing China’s political, economic, and cultural development, the books gathered here also deal with contacts with the West both ancient and modern.