Book Reviews : TORU MATSUI, British Rule and Indian Society: A North Indian District in the First Half of the 19th Century, Tokyo: The Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo, 1987, 405 pp. (in Japanese)

1989 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-124
Author(s):  
Koi Wakimura
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
British Rule ◽  
The 19Th Century

Book reviews

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-226
Author(s):  
Kurdish Studies
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Spatial Control ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Turkish State ◽  
The 19Th Century

Andrea Fischer-Tahir and Sophie Wagenhofer (edsF), Disciplinary Spaces: Spatial Control, Forced Assimilation and Narratives of Progress since the 19th Century, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2017, 300 pp., (ISBN: 978-3-8376-3487-7).Ayşegül Aydın and Cem Emrence, Zones of Rebellion: Kurdish Insurgents and the Turkish State, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2015, 192 pp., (ISBN: 978-0-801-45354-0).Evgenia I. Vasil’eva, Yugo-Vostochniy Kurdistan v XVI-XIX vv. Istochnik po Istorii Kurdskikh Emiratov Ardelan i Baban. [South-Eastern Kurdistan in the XVI-XIXth cc. A Source for the Study of Kurdish Emirates of Ardalān and Bābān], St Petersburg: Nestor-Istoria, 2016. 176 pp., (ISBN 978-5-4469-0775-5).Karin Mlodoch, The Limits of Trauma Discourse: Women Anfal Survivors in Kurdistan-Iraq, Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2014, 541 pp., (ISBN: 978-3-87997-719-2). 

Space of Deprivation

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Sumit Chakrabarti
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
English Education ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
British Rule ◽  
Representational Space ◽  
The 19Th Century

A much neglected section of the 19th Century imperial bhadrolok population during British rule in India was the Bengali clerk or the kerani. While his English education and caste identity likened him to the middle-class gentleman, his pattern of work, low salary, lack of opportunities for improvement, pushed him closer to the labour class. But was this neglected section of the “bhadrolok” always without his representational space? In this paper, I shall study examples from clerks’ memoirs and from contemporary literature and read them alongside the violently repressive The Clerk’s Manual published in 1889, to see if the clerk was secretly discovering a heterotopia of his own.

scholarly journals Afanasy Nikitin in India: A Historical Retrospective of the Legendary Journey

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-54
Author(s):  
Д.Е. Челышев
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
General Concept ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Interstate Relations ◽  
Interstate Cooperation ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Textual Content ◽  
The 19Th Century

В статье определено историческое значение путешествия тверского купца Афанасия Никитина в аспекте его влияния на последующее развитие культурных контактов между Россией и Индией, а также выявлен ряд обстоятельств, связанных с установкой в Индии единственного памятника путешественнику. Проанализирован текст литературного памятника XV в. «Хожение за три моря», использованы результаты исследований индийских и российских ученых, ряд англоязычных источников. Подчеркивается историческая ценность путевых заметок А. Никитина как единственного свидетельства о реалиях жизни индийского общества в государстве Бахманидов, что позволило автору обоснованно внести ряд корректив в исторические данные. Подвергнута критике концепция ориентализма в оценке значимости и мотивов деятельности известных российских путешественников и исследователей Востока. Сооружение памятника А. Никитину в 2001 г. трактуется как событие, придавшее новый импульс развитию и расширению российско-индийского сотрудничества. The article defines the historical significance of the journey of the Tver merchant Afanasy Nikitin in terms of its influence on the subsequent development of cultural contacts between Russia and India, and also reveals a number of circumstances associated with the installation of the only monument to this traveler in India. The text of a 15th-century literary monument, A Journey Beyond the Three Seas, is analyzed. The results of research by Indian and Russian scholars and a number of English-language sources are used. Systemic-historical, historical-genetic methods and a number of methods of historical source study related to the interpretation and analysis of textual content are applied. The book by Nikitin has been studied in the aspect of comparing its content with information provided, among others, by Portuguese authors. The historical value of Nikitin’s travel notes is emphasized as of the only evidence of the realities of the life of Indian society in the Bahmanid state, which allowed the author to reasonably make a number of corrections to the historical data. The late 19th-century publications of British and Indian authors dedicated to the detailed reconstruction of Afanasy Nikitin’s route and published in Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency are studied. The versions of the interpretation of the geographical names given in A Journey Beyond the Three Seas are considered. In the light of the publications that appeared on the pages of Gazetteer, the key stages of Nikitin’s journey through the territory of the Western Deccan are considered. Discussions caused by the study of the Journey by Indian authors at the end of the 19th century are analyzed. The author claims that, in his notes, Nikitin sought to comprehend and understand what he saw rather than compare the incomprehensible with the usual realities and condemn it for the fact that it does not fit into his own ideas at all. The concept of Orientalism in assessing the significance and motives of the activities of famous Russian travelers and researchers of the East is criticized. An extensive factual record of events related to the erection of the monument to Afanasy Nikitin in the vicinity of Mumbai in 2002 is presented. The construction of the monument to Nikitin is interpreted as an event that gave a new impetus to the development and expansion of Russian-Indian cooperation. The author points out that the cultural resource is the basis in building a general concept of interstate relations and continues to play a significant role in interstate cooperation between Russia and India.

Book Reviews: Robert A. Stafford, Scientist of empire: Sir Roderick Murchison, scientific exploration and Victorian imperialism

1992 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-193
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
General Consensus ◽  
Scientific Exploration ◽  
Indirect Control ◽  
The World ◽  
The 19Th Century

Robert A. Stafford, Scientist of empire: Sir Roderick Murchison, scientific exploration and Victorian imperialism . Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp xi + 293, £30.00. ISBN 0-521-33537-x European imperialism in the second half of the 19th century has been of great interest to historians for many decades. Even its definition has been a matter of brisk controversy, though now there is a general consensus that imperialism was the deliberate act or advocacy of extending or maintaining a state’s direct or indirect control over any other inhabited territory. From the early 20th century imperialism, especially as made manifest in the scramble for Africa, has often been seen as an aberrant phenomenon. Rarely has it been viewed as a natural and expected development in the relation between Europe and the rest of the world: its nature, its scope, and its timing were problematic.

Public Educational Systems in a Colonial Context: The case of India's Transition from Indigenous to Modern Ideas and Institutions in the Nineteenth Century

1983 ◽  
Vol 165 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sureshachandra Shukla
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Social System ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Examination System ◽  
External Examination ◽  
British Rule ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 19Th Century

The consolidation of British rule in India during the 19th century included some transformations in the Indian educational system. These included organized efforts to restructure the system making it more accessible to a wider clientele. There were attempts to restructure authority in schools and to impose an external examination system. In addition, knowledge came to be viewed increasingly as a commodity which individuals should accumulate. This accumulation of knowledge in schools was supposed to guarantee fuller participation in the labor market. This paper attempts to trace the history of the changes in the educational system in relation to changes in the larger social system. As part of this history it accounts for the forces that work both in support of and in resistance to changes in a colonial context. 1 1 This paper draws very heavily on Shukla, 1958, 1959, and 1967

scholarly journals Revivalist Style Churches of 19th Century in Ambala Cantonment: An Insight to Holy Redeemer Church Ambala Cantonment

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-178
Author(s):  
Harveen Bhandari
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Significant Development ◽  
British Raj ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
British Rule ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The 19Th Century

The British Raj in India led to different types of developments in various parts of the country owing to their physical, social and cultural needs. The Cantonments were one such significant development under British rule in 19th century. Out of the different typology of buildings made by the British settlers in cantonments, the most popular and most ornate structures are the Churches found across the country. In particular the churches built in the 19th century exhibit more or less similar architectural character and style as the whole world was experiencing the Revivalist Gothic style. The paper looks into the construction of such Revivalist Gothic churches in the newly formed Cantonment at Ambala during the same time period and analyses the architecture and construction of one of the oldest church of the cantonment. The paper brings to light the first Catholic Church in Ambala Cantonment, Ambala, India that is 100 years old and has survived the test of time and continues to be in use. It is an exemplary built heritage reminiscent of the British era that needs to be adaptively reused seeing it as an important typology of building exhibiting the Revivalist style in India. The present research was done as part of a project undertaken in Masters of Architecture under the able guidance of Prof Kiran Joshi.

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