An Endangered History
An Endangered History

Author: Angma Dey Jhala

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-04-23

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 0199096910

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An Endangered History examines the transcultural, colonial history of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, c. 1798–1947. This little-studied borderland region lies on the crossroads of Bangladesh, India, and Burma and is inhabited by several indigenous peoples. They observe a diversity of religions, including Buddhism, Hinduism, animism, and Christianity; speak Tibeto-Burmese dialects intermixed with Persian and Bengali idioms; and practise jhum or slash-and-burn agriculture. This book investigates how British administrators from the eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries used European systems of knowledge, such as botany, natural history, gender, enumerative statistics, and anthropology, to construct these indigenous communities and their landscapes. In the process, they connected the region to a dynamic, global map, and classified its peoples through the reifying language of religion, linguistics, race, and nation.

The Second French Republic 1848-1852
The Second French Republic 1848-1852

Author: Christopher Guyver

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-06-09

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1137597402

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This book follows the story of the Second French Republic from its idealistic beginnings in February 1848 to its formal replacement in December 1852 by the Second Empire. Based on original archival research, The Second French Republic gives a detailed account of the internal tensions that irrevocably weakened France’s shortest republic. During this short period French political life was buffeted by strong and often contrary forces: universal manhood suffrage, fear of socialism, the President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, and the political ambitions of the military high command for the restoration of the monarchy.

The Classics and Colonial India
The Classics and Colonial India

Author: Phiroze Vasunia

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2013-05-16

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 0199203237

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Offering a unique cross-cultural study, this book provides a detailed account of the relationship between classical antiquity and the British colonial presence in India. Vasunia shows how classical culture pervaded the minds of the British colonizers, and highlights the many Indian receptions of Greco-Roman antiquity.

Thangliena
Thangliena

Author: John Whitehead

Publisher: Weatherhill, Incorporated

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 478

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A Radical Aristocrat
A Radical Aristocrat

Author: Alison Adburgham

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 266

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This new biography of Sir William Molesworth of Pencarrow expores his personal life as it interwove with his remarkable career as a Radical politician, cut off by his early death when Secretary of State for the Colonies at the time of the Crimean War. Landlord of great properties in Cornwall and Devon, he fought for the rights of the people - for the ballot, national education, abolition of transportation, repeal of the Corn Laws. Himself a declared agnositc, he defended all religions against political discrimination.