Sites of imperial memory
Sites of imperial memory

Author: Dominik Geppert

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2016-05-16

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1526111888

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Europe’s great colonial empires have long been a thing of the past, but the memories they generated are still all around us. They have left deep imprints on the different memory communities that were affected by the processes of establishing, running and dismantling these systems of imperial rule, and they are still vibrant and evocative today. This volume brings together a collection of innovative and fresh studies exploring different sites of imperial memory – those conceptual and real places where the memories of former colonial rulers and of former colonial subjects have crystallised into a lasting form. The volume explores how memory was built up, re-shaped and preserved across different empires, continents and centuries. It shows how it found concrete expression in stone and bronze, how it adhered to the stories that were told and retold about great individuals and how it was suppressed, denied and neglected.

The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India
The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India

Author: Randolf G. S. Cooper

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780521824446

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This is a cross-cultural study of the political economy of war in South Asia. Randolf G. S. Cooper combines an overview of Maratha military culture with a battle-by-battle analysis of the 1803 Anglo-Maratha Campaigns. Building on that foundation he challenges ethnocentric assumptions about British superiority in discipline, drill and technology. He argues that these campaigns, in which Arthur Wellesley served with distinction, represent the military high-water mark of the Marathas who posed the last serious opposition to the formation of the British Raj. Dr Cooper asserts that the real contest for India was never a single decisive battle for the subcontinent. Rather it turned on a complex social and political struggle for control of the South Asian military economy. The author shows that victory in 1803 hinged as much on finance, diplomacy, politics and intelligence as it did on battlefield manoeuvre and war itself.

Summary of the Mahratta and Pindarree Campaign,: During 1817, 1818, and 1819, Under Direction of the Marquis of Hastings: Chiefly Embracing the Operat
Summary of the Mahratta and Pindarree Campaign,: During 1817, 1818, and 1819, Under Direction of the Marquis of Hastings: Chiefly Embracing the Operat

Author: Carnaticus

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2018-02-14

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9781377473130

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In the Master's Presence
In the Master's Presence

Author: Nidar Singh Nihang

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13:

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Some of the most far-reaching events in Sikh history have centred on Hazoor Sahib ('Master's Presence'), the final resting place of the tenth Sikh Guru - who had spent much of his life battling against the oppressive policies of the Mughal Empire