Search Results - "British India"
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Transformations of Byron in the literature of British India
Published 2014“…They re-imagined the encounter with the romanticized Orient that characterizes many of Byron’s works in response to the specific political and cultural contexts of British India in the nineteenth century.…”
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British India and Victorian literary culture
Published 2015“…British India and Victorian Culture extends current scholarship on the Victorian period with a wide-ranging and innovative analysis of the literature of British India. …”
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The travels of M. de Thévenot through the thug archive
Published 2001“…The changes visible in the manner of deployment of this information are indicative of progressive re-formulations of the narrative of the history of thuggee, and the larger history of British India. This process is examined through a study of the incorporation of an extract from The Travels of M de Thévenot into the Levant into the historical archive, which concludes that any re-appraisal of history must incorporate a consideration of the narrative underlying the production of the records, as well as the records themselves.…”
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Preface and Introduction
Published 2014“…Officially confined to red-light districts, brothels in British India were tolerated until the 1920s. Yet, by this time, prostitution reform campaigns led by Indian, imperial, and international bodies were combining the social scientific insights of sexology and hygiene with the moral condemnations of sexual slavery and human trafficking. …”
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Governing prostitution in colonial Delhi: from cantonment regulations to international hygiene (1864-1939)
Published 2009“…The first period is delimited by the ‘Mutiny’ of 1857 and the transfer of the capital of British India to the city in 1911. The second period ends in 1947 with Indian independence and marks Delhi's time as part of the capital region. …”
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An historical geography of the Nilgiri cinchona plantations, 1860-1900
Published 2010“…In 1859, the British government launched an expedition to South America with the aim of collecting seeds and plants of the quinine-producing cinchona tree for establishing plantations in British India, so as to relieve the British Government of the escalating costs and uncertainties in the supply of this valuable, and increasingly popular anti-malarial drug. …”
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Growth of knowledge on the reptiles of India, with an introduction to systematics, taxonomy and nomenclature
Published 2003“…The last stocktaking of the reptile fauna of India, in the three volume Fauna of British India series by Malcolm Smith is compared with the fauna now known from the country. …”
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Teaching English literature at IIUM: Islamic perspectives on selected twentieth-century texts
Published 2015“…Right from the beginning of its introduction in British India and elsewhere, the most prominent consideration was its inherent worth as a carrier of values and norms. …”
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Teaching English literature at IIUM: Islamic perspectives on selected twentieth-century texts
Published 2016“…Right from the beginning of its introduction in British India and elsewhere, the most prominent consideration was its inherent worth as a carrier of values and norms. …”
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Honour killing as engendered violence against women in Amit Majmudar’s Partitions (2011)
Published 2016“…The 1947 Partition of British India, otherwise simply known as Partition, marked not only the births of India and Pakistan, but also one of modern history’s largest human mass migrations, in which an estimated million died and thousands of women were subjected to horrifying acts of engendered violence. …”
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Honour killing as engendered violence against women in Amit Majmudar’s Partitions (2011)
Published 2016“…The 1947 Partition of British India, otherwise simply known as Partition, marked not only the births of India and Pakistan, but also one of modern history’s largest human mass migrations, in which an estimated million died and thousands of women were subjected to horrifying acts of engendered violence. …”
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Honour killing as engendered violence against women in Amit Majmudar's Partitions (2011)
Published 2016“…The 1947 Partition of British India, otherwise simply known as Partition, marked not only the births of India and Pakistan, but also one of modern history’s largest human mass migrations, in which an estimated million died and thousands of women were subjected to horrifying acts of engendered violence. …”
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Muslim Bengal writes back: A study of Rokeya’s representation of Europe
Published 2012“…During the time of her active creative career, British colonialism was at its height in India. British India was a confluence of Indian and European people and both the groups interacted with each other, albeit maintaining some distance given the prevailing colonial relations between them. …”
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Historical globalization and its effects: a study of Sylhet and its people, 1874-1971
Published 2009“…The dissertation considers the reshaping of Sylhet and its role as buffer zone between Assam and Bengal - the biggest province of British India. Thus it looks at Sylhet's place as the producer of global commodity tea - interfacing capital and labour that left long-term impact. …”
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Engendered violence against women during partition in Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India and Amit Majmudar's partitions
Published 2016“…The 1947 Partition of British India marked the birth of two new nations and yet, at the same time, it was one of the largest human mass migrations in modern history (Butalia, 2000). …”
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Essays on development and international economics
Published 2021“…The second chapter explores the role of colonial trade on economic and political developments in British India during the 20th century. The third chapter analyses the effect of recent technological change, mainly automation, on the making of immigration policy in the United States since the 1970s. …”
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