War over Words

War over Words

Author: Devika Sethi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-05-23

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1108484247

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Recovers, narrates, and interrogates the history of censorship of publications in India over three crucial decades - 1930-1960.


NATIONALIST MOVEMENT IN DELHI 1911-1932

NATIONALIST MOVEMENT IN DELHI 1911-1932

Author: BIRESH CHAUDHURI

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-06-21

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1387002309

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Delhi came under the British rule in 1803 following the defeat of the Marathas at the hands of the British forces, led by General Lake in the Battle at Patparganj near Chalera Village in the current city of Noida. General Lake established a residency at Delhi with Sir David Ochterlony as its first resident and Chief Commissioner. Following the British conquest, there was an impression that the population of the city was steadily increasing. In 1806, Lord Lake and others were convinced that there was a definite increase in the population and attributed it to the novelty of a regime of comfort, security and impartial justice. Census reports from 1833 to 1853 showed a rise in population from 131,000 to 151,000. Most of the population was concentrated around the Chandni Chowk and Faiz Bazaar region of Daryaganj. The reason for this substantial increase in population was said to be the annual increase in the influx of people from outside, mostly from Punjab.


Indian Ink

Indian Ink

Author: Miles Ogborn

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2008-11-15

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 0226620425

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A commercial company established in 1600 to monopolize trade between England and the Far East, the East India Company grew to govern an Indian empire. Exploring the relationship between power and knowledge in European engagement with Asia, Indian Ink examines the Company at work and reveals how writing and print shaped authority on a global scale in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Tracing the history of the Company from its first tentative trading voyages in the early seventeenth century to the foundation of an empire in Bengal in the late eighteenth century, Miles Ogborn takes readers into the scriptoria, ships, offices, print shops, coffeehouses, and palaces to investigate the forms of writing needed to exert power and extract profit in the mercantile and imperial worlds. Interpreting the making and use of a variety of forms of writing in script and print, Ogborn argues that material and political circumstances always undermined attempts at domination through the power of the written word. Navigating the juncture of imperial history and the history of the book, Indian Ink uncovers the intellectual and political legacies of early modern trade and empire and charts a new understanding of the geography of print culture.


Haj to Utopia

Haj to Utopia

Author: Maia Ramnath

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2011-12-01

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 0520950399

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In Haj to Utopia, Maia Ramnath tells the dramatic story of Ghadar, the Indian anticolonial movement that attempted overthrow of the British Empire. Founded by South Asian immigrants in California, Ghadar—which is translated as "mutiny"—quickly became a global presence in East Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and East Africa. Ramnath brings this epic struggle to life as she traces Ghadar’s origins to the Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, its establishment of headquarters in Berkeley, California, and its fostering by anarchists in London, Paris, and Berlin. Linking Britain’s declaration of war on Germany in 1914 to Ghadar’s declaration of war on Britain, Ramnath vividly recounts how 8,000 rebels were deployed from around the world to take up the battle in Hindustan. Haj to Utopia demonstrates how far-flung freedom fighters managed to articulate a radical new world order out of seemingly contradictory ideas.


India, Empire, and First World War Culture

India, Empire, and First World War Culture

Author: Santanu Das

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-09-13

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 1107081580

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This is the first cultural and literary history of India and the First World War, with archival research from Europe and South Asia.


Hungry Nation

Hungry Nation

Author: Benjamin Robert Siegel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-04-26

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1108695051

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This ambitious and engaging new account of independent India's struggle to overcome famine and malnutrition in the twentieth century traces Indian nation-building through the voices of politicians, planners, and citizens. Siegel explains the historical origins of contemporary India's hunger and malnutrition epidemic, showing how food and sustenance moved to the center of nationalist thought in the final years of colonial rule. Independent India's politicians made promises of sustenance and then qualified them by asking citizens to share the burden of feeding a new and hungry state. Foregrounding debates over land, markets, and new technologies, Hungry Nation interrogates how citizens and politicians contested the meanings of nation-building and citizenship through food, and how these contestations receded in the wake of the Green Revolution. Drawing upon meticulous archival research, this is the story of how Indians challenged meanings of welfare and citizenship across class, caste, region, and gender in a new nation-state.


Handbook of the Media in Asia

Handbook of the Media in Asia

Author: Shelton A Gunaratne

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited

Published: 2000-07-27

Total Pages: 778

ISBN-13:

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This volume provides a fresh look at the media in Asia. It complements the work of the Euromedia Research Group on the media in Western Europe, and supplements with updated information earlier works on the media in Asia and its sub-regions. While providing a predominantly Asian interpretation of Asian media, the handbook is not in disharmony with Western interpretation. The Handbook draws together contributions from over thirty experts, which have been placed within the customary division of Asia into South, Southeast, and East.


History for the IB Diploma Paper 3 Nationalism and Independence in India (1919–1964)

History for the IB Diploma Paper 3 Nationalism and Independence in India (1919–1964)

Author: Jean Bottaro

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-08-18

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1316506487

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Comprehensive books to support study of History for the IB Diploma Paper 3, revised for first assessment in 2017. This coursebook covers Paper 3, HL option 3: History of Asia and Oceania, Topic 10: Nationalism and Independence in India (1919-1964) of the History for the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma syllabus for first assessment in 2017. Tailored to the requirements of the IB syllabus, and written by an experienced examiner and teacher it offers an authoritative and engaging guidance through nationalism in India, from the end of World War I to the achievement of Indian independence and the development of the country.