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Colonialism is one of the most important aspects of Indian history and Indian literature. The colonial rule has left its impression in both positive and negative ways. The paper looks at the positive aspects of the British rule in Ballari a District in Karnataka. The paper/article deals with the development that took place during the colonial rule in Ballari. It explores the adoption of modern technology and science and opening of missionary schools at Ballari and its positive impact on the region and regional/native people. The paper shows how the modernization and Westernization made its way in Ballari.

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Organizational Leadership -- A Learning from the Indian History

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2483001 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Rakesh Rayiramkandath

Keyword(s):

Organizational Leadership ◽

Indian History

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Bonham C. Richardson. Igniting the Caribbean's Past: Fire in British West Indian History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2004. Pp. xvi, 233. Cloth $59.95, paper $19.95

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/109.5.1609 ◽

2004 ◽

Keyword(s):

North Carolina ◽

West Indian ◽

University Of North Carolina ◽

Indian History ◽

Chapel Hill ◽

British West Indian

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Enlargement of scales, plural traditions, and rule of law: comparative reflections on European and Indian history

Review of Development and Change ◽

10.1177/0972266119960101 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 1-19 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Satish Saberwal

Keyword(s):

Rule Of Law ◽

Indian History

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Reinventing Ramanand: Caste and History in Gangetic India

Modern Asian Studies ◽

10.1017/s0026749x00016590 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 549-571 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

William R. Pinch

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

English Language ◽

Ninth Century ◽

Religious History ◽

North India ◽

Colonial India ◽

Indian History ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

Literature And Religion ◽

History Of

According to Sir George Grierson, one of the pre-eminent Indologists of the early twentieth century, Ramanand led ‘one of the most momentous revolutions that have occurred in the religious history of North India.’Yet Ramanand, the fourteenth-century teacher of Banaras, has been conspicuous by his relative absence in the pages of English-language scholarship on recent Indian history, literature, and religion. The aims of this essay are to reflect on why this is so, and to urge historians to pay attention to Ramanand, more particularly to the reinvention of Ramanand by his early twentieth-century followers, because the contested traditions thereof bear on the vexed issue of caste and hierarchy in colonial India. The little that is known about Ramanand is doubly curious considering that Ramanandis, those who look to Ramanand for spiritual and community inspiration, are thought to comprise the largest and most important Vaishnava monastic order in north India. Ramanandis are to be found in temples and monasteries throughout and beyond the Hindi-speaking north, and they are largely responsible for the upsurge in Ram-centered devotion in the last two centuries. A fairly recent anthropological examination of Ayodhya, currently the most important Ramanand pilgrimage center in India, has revealed that Ramanandi sadhus, or monks, can be grouped under three basic headings: tyagi (ascetic), naga (fighting ascetic), and rasik (devotional aesthete).4 The increased popularity of the order in recent centuries is such that Ramanandis may today outnumber Dasnamis, the better-known Shaiva monks who look to the ninth-century teacher, Shankaracharya, for their organizational and philosophical moorings.

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Surinam Plantations in Dutch Archives

Itinerario ◽

10.1017/s0165115300009840 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 121-126

Author(s):

Peter Boomgaard

Keyword(s):

West Indies ◽

Good News ◽

University Of Minnesota ◽

Indian History ◽

East Indies ◽

Plantation Economy ◽

Indonesian Archipelago ◽

Johns Hopkins University ◽

The Caribbean ◽

The University

The 1979 issue of Itinerario, (no. 2) opened with “A note on Suriname Plantation Archives at the University of Minnesota”, in which Richard Price of the Johns Hopkins University reported his discovery of some 2,000 manuscript pages on a number of Surinam plantations in the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. This, of course, is very good news. It is perhaps still better news that the Dutch archives contain vast and almost untapped (resources on a 200-odd plantations! I am, however, certainly not the first tone to make this ‘discovery’: Mrs. M.A.P. Meilink-Roelofsz not only mentioned it in her Ph.D. dissertation “Asian trade and European influence in the Indonesian Archipelago between 1500 and about 1630”, but she even ordered part of the archives herself. It must be the unbridgeable gap between scholars interested in the East Indies /and those who study West Indian history, that her enthusiastic remarks on the availability of plantation material went unheeded. When nine years later Th. Mathews published his article “Los estuadios sobre historia economica del Caribe (1585 - 1910)”2, he mentioned the Dutch West Indies as a blank on the Caribbean map as far as economic (plantation) history is concerned. Since Mathews wrote his article the historiographic situation has improved only slightly, and it is an ironic comment on Surinam historical scholarship that tiny Curaçao's XlXth century plantation economy by now has found its historian, while the Surinam plantations are still in search of an author.

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