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24 produkter
The Politics of India since Independence
Av Paul R. Brass, Gordon Johnson m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
720 kr
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The Politics of India since Independence provides a comprehensive study of the major political, cultural, and economic changes in India since gaining independence. Paul Brass focuses on the consequences of the centralising drives of the national leadership to create a strong, unified nation, and a …
The Portuguese in India
Av M. N. Pearson, Gordon Johnson m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
435 kr
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The Portuguese were the first European imperial power in Asia. Dr Pearson's volume of their history is a clear account of their activities in India and the Indian Ocean from the sixteenth century onwards written squarely from an Indian point of view. Laying particular stress on social, economic and …
The Marathas 1600-1818
Av Stewart Gordon, Gordon Johnson
Häftad, 2007
435 kr
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In this book, Dr Stewart Gordon presents a comprehensive history of one of the most colourful and least-understood kingdoms of India: the Maratha Empire. The empire was founded by Shivaji in the mid-seventeenth century, spread across most of India during the following century, and was conquered by …
Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital
Rural Bengal since 1770
Av Sugata Bose, Gordon Johnson m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
435 kr
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This book is a critical work of synthesis and interpretation on one of the central themes in modern Indian history - agrarian change under British colonial rule. Sugata Bose analyses the relationships between demography, commercialization, class structure and peasant resistance unfolding over the …
Locality, Province and Nation
Essays on Indian Politics 1870 to 1940
Av Gallagher, John Gallagher m. fl.
Häftad, 1973
720 kr
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With the steady growth of interest in the history of India under the British, interpretations have emerged, and they may sharply alter much of our thinking about Indian nationalism and British Imperialism. Some of these historical revisions, and the conclusions which may flow from them, are …
Power, Profit and Politics: Volume 15, Part 3
Essays on Imperialism, Nationalism and Change in Twentieth-Century India
Av Christopher Baker, Gordon Johnson m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
519 kr
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The essays in this book were originally published together as a special issue of the Journal of Modern Asian Studies, released in July 1981. They are reprinted here in their entirety. The essays are concerned with the ways in which Britain's imperial connection with India impinged upon the …
Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire
Av C. A. Bayly, Gordon Johnson
Inbunden, 1988
1693 kr
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The past twenty years have seen a proliferation of specialist scholarship on the period of India's transition to colonialism. This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from recent work and seeks in particular to reassess the role of Indians in the politics and …
The Mughal Empire
Av John F. Richards, Gordon Johnson
Inbunden, 1993
2029 kr
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The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralised states in pre-modern world history. It was founded in the early 1500s and by the end of the following century the Mughal emperor ruled almost the entire Indian subcontinent with a population of between 100 and 150 millions. The Mughal emperors …
Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age
Av Susan Bayly, Gordon Johnson m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
1928 kr
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The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life and thought. Susan Bayly's cogent and sophisticated analysis explores the emergence of the ideas, experiences and practices which gave rise to the so-called 'caste society' from the pre-colonial …
The Marathas 1600-1818
Av Stewart Gordon, Gordon Johnson
Inbunden, 1993
2029 kr
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In this book, Dr Stewart Gordon presents a comprehensive history of one of the most colourful and least-understood kingdoms of India: the Maratha Empire. The empire was founded by Shivaji in the mid-seventeenth century, spread across most of India during the following century, and was conquered by …
Ideologies of the Raj
Av Thomas R. Metcalf, Gordon Johnson m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
1403 kr
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Ideologies of the Raj examines how the British sought to justify their rule over India. The author argues that two divergent strategies were devised to legitimate their authority: the one defined characteristics which the Indians shared with the British themselves, while the other emphasised …
Mughal and Rajput Painting
Av Milo Cleveland Beach, Christopher Alan Bayly m. fl.
Inbunden, 1992
1677 kr
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The Mughals - descendants of Timur and Genghiz Khan with strong cultural ties to the Persian world - seized political power in north India in 1526 and became the most important artistically active Muslim dynasty on the subcontinent. In this richly illustrated book, Dr Milo Beach shows how, between …
The Mughal Empire
Av John F. Richards, Gordon Johnson
Häftad, 1996
459 kr
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The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralised states in pre-modern world history. It was founded in the early 1500s and by the end of the following century the Mughal emperor ruled almost the entire Indian subcontinent with a population of between 100 and 150 millions. The Mughal emperors …
Ideologies of the Raj
Av Thomas R. Metcalf, Gordon Johnson m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
435 kr
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Ideologies of the Raj examines how the British sought to justify their rule over India. The author argues that two divergent strategies were devised to legitimate their authority: the one defined characteristics which the Indians shared with the British themselves, while the other emphasised …
Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India
Av David Arnold, Gordon Johnson
Häftad, 2004
435 kr
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Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has grown in recent years and has played an ever-increasing part in the reinterpretation of modern South Asian history. Spanning the period from the establishment of East India Company rule through to Independence, David …
Provincial Politics and Indian Nationalism
Bombay and the Indian National Congress 1880-1915
Häftad, 2005
636 kr
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This is a study of the Indian National Congress, the first political association to approach the government of India at an all-India level. The Congress became the most important national party in twentieth century India, and the whole history of the freedom movement is closely bound up with its …
The Sikhs of the Punjab
Av J. S. Grewal, Gordon Johnson m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
508 kr
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In a revised edition of his original book, J. S. Grewal brings the history of the Sikhs from its beginnings in the time of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, right up to the present day. Against the background of the history of the Punjab, the volume surveys the changing pattern of human …
Women in Modern India
Av Geraldine Forbes, Gordon Johnson m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
459 kr
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In a compelling study of Indian women, Geraldine Forbes considers their recent history from the nineteenth century under colonial rule to the twentieth century after Independence. She begins with the reform movement, established by men to educate women, and demonstrates how education changed …
University Politics
F.M. Cornford's Cambridge and his Advice to the Young Academic Politician
Häftad, 2008
452 kr
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This entertaining account of Cambridge around the turn of the twentieth century contains the centenary edition of the complete text of F. M. Cornford's famous satire of 1908 on university politics, Microcosmographia Academica, together with a full account of the controversies which gave rise to it. …
Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age
Av Susan Bayly, Gordon Johnson m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
586 kr
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The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life and thought. Susan Bayly's cogent and sophisticated analysis explores the emergence of the ideas, experiences and practices which gave rise to the so-called 'caste society' from the pre-colonial …
University Politics
F.M. Cornford's Cambridge and his Advice to the Young Academic Politician
Inbunden, 2008
1190 kr
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This entertaining account of Cambridge around the turn of the twentieth century contains the centenary edition of the complete text of F. M. Cornford's famous satire of 1908 on university politics, Microcosmographia Academica, together with a full account of the controversies which gave rise to it. …
