In Clive's Command, a Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang (1906)
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A Thesis Submitted for the Degree of PhD at the University of Warwick Permanent WRAP URL: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/150023 Copyright and reuse: This thesis is made available online and is protected by original copyright. Please scroll down to view the document itself. Please refer to the repository record for this item for information to help you to cite it. Our policy information is available from the repository home page. For more information, please contact the WRAP Team at: [email protected] warwick.ac.uk/lib-publications ‘AN ENDLESS VARIETY OF FORMS AND PROPORTIONS’: INDIAN INFLUENCE ON BRITISH GARDENS AND GARDEN BUILDINGS, c.1760-c.1865 Two Volumes: Volume I Text Diane Evelyn Trenchard James A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy University of Warwick, Department of History of Art September, 2019 Table of Contents Acknowledgements ………………………………………………………………. iv Abstract …………………………………………………………………………… vi Abbreviations ……………………………………………………………………. viii . Glossary of Indian Terms ……………………………………………………....... ix List of Illustrations ……………………………………………………………... xvii Introduction ……………………………………………………………………….. 1 1. Chapter 1: Country Estates and the Politics of the Nabob ………................ 30 Case Study 1: The Indian and British Mansions and Experimental Gardens of Warren Hastings, Governor-General of Bengal …………………………………… 48 Case Study 2: Innovations and improvements established by Sir Hector Munro, Royal, Bengal, and Madras Armies, on the Novar Estate, Inverness, Scotland …… 74 Case Study 3: Sir William Paxton’s Garden Houses in Calcutta, and his Pleasure Garden at Middleton Hall, Llanarthne, South Wales ……………………………… 91 2. Chapter 2: The Indian Experience: Engagement with Indian Art and Religion ……………………………………………………………………….. 117 Case Study 4: A Fairy Palace in Devon: Redcliffe Towers built by Colonel Robert Smith, Bengal Engineers ……………………………………………………..…. -
Myth, Language, Empire: the East India Company and the Construction of British India, 1757-1857
Western University Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository 5-10-2011 12:00 AM Myth, Language, Empire: The East India Company and the Construction of British India, 1757-1857 Nida Sajid University of Western Ontario Supervisor Nandi Bhatia The University of Western Ontario Graduate Program in Comparative Literature A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the degree in Doctor of Philosophy © Nida Sajid 2011 Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd Part of the Asian History Commons, Comparative Literature Commons, Cultural History Commons, Islamic World and Near East History Commons, Literature in English, British Isles Commons, Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies Commons, and the South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies Commons Recommended Citation Sajid, Nida, "Myth, Language, Empire: The East India Company and the Construction of British India, 1757-1857" (2011). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 153. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/153 This Dissertation/Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship@Western. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository by an authorized administrator of Scholarship@Western. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Myth, Language, Empire: The East India Company and the Construction of British India, 1757-1857 (Spine Title: Myth, Language, Empire) (Thesis format: Monograph) by Nida Sajid Graduate Program in Comparative Literature A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada © Nida Sajid 2011 THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies CERTIFICATE OF EXAMINATION Supervisor Examiners _____________________ _ ____________________________ Dr. -
Maharaja Rajballabh
Adharchandra Mook,erjee Lectures /or 1942 MAHARAJA RAJBALLABH A Critical Study based on Contemporary Records BY R. C. MAJUMDAR, M.A., PH.D., F.R.A.S.B. FORMERLY VICE-CHANCELLOR AND PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, DACCA UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA 2215 1 FEB 1968 PRINTED IN INDIA PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY NISHITCHANDRA SEN, SUPERINTENDl>NT (OFFG.), CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 48, HAZRA ROAD, BALLYGUNGE, CALO{;'l"fA. 1567B-March, 1947-EJ, DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF MY MATERNAL GRANDFATHER PRASANNA KUMAR SEN GRJ~AT-GREAT-GRANDSON OF MAHARAJA RAJBALLABH CONTENTS PAGE Preface Vll Abbreviations IX 1. Introduction 1 2. Early Life 3 3. Reign of Alivardi Khan 6 4. The Plot for the Throne 10 5. Rajballabh and Sirajuddaula 26 6. Rajballabh and Mir Jafar 44 7. Rajballabh and Mir Kasim 59 8. General Review 88 PREFACE In 1942 I was invited by the University of Calcutta t,o deliver a course of two lectures under the Adharchandra Mookerjee (Endowment) Lectl\reship. These lectures are now published exactly in the form in which I delivered them in January, 1943, with the addition of the footnotes. The importance of the subject and the reason why I selected it have been explained at the commencement of Lecture I, and I shall consider my labours amply rewarded if these lectures promote a critical study of the history of the period. The short but tragic reigns of Sirajuddaula and his two successors constitute the most eventful period in the modern history of Bengal and, to use the words of Hallam, it is one ' which no Indian ever regards without interest and few without prejudice.' Time has come when we should study the history of this period in the light of contemporary records, without prejudice or passion of any kind. -
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"We do not to aspire be historians, we simply profess to our readers lay before some curious reminiscences illustrating the manners and customs of the people (both Britons and Indians) during the rule of the East India Company." @h£ iooi #ld Jap €f Being Curious Reminiscences During the Rule of the East India Company From 1600 to 1858 Compiled from newspapers and other publications By W. H. CAREY QUINS BOOK COMPANY 62A, Ahiritola Street, Calcutta-5 First Published : 1882 : 1964 New Quins abridged edition Copyright Reserved Edited by AmARENDRA NaTH MOOKERJI 113^tvS4 Price - Rs. 15.00 . 25=^. DISTRIBUTORS DAS GUPTA & CO. PRIVATE LTD. 54-3, College Street, Calcutta-12. Published by Sri A. K. Dey for Quins Book Co., 62A, Ahiritola at Express Street, Calcutta-5 and Printed by Sri J. N. Dey the Printers Private Ltd., 20-A, Gour Laha Street, Calcutta-6. /n Memory of The Departed Jawans PREFACE The contents of the following pages are the result of files of old researches of sexeral years, through newspapers and hundreds of volumes of scarce works on India. Some of the authorities we have acknowledged in the progress of to we have been indebted for in- the work ; others, which to such as formation we shall here enumerate ; apologizing : — we may have unintentionally omitted Selections from the Calcutta Gazettes ; Calcutta Review ; Travels Selec- Orlich's Jacquemont's ; Mackintosh's ; Long's other Calcutta ; tions ; Calcutta Gazettes and papers Kaye's Malleson's Civil Administration ; Wheeler's Early Records ; Recreations; East India United Service Journal; Asiatic Lewis's Researches and Asiatic Journal ; Knight's Calcutta; India. -
Folklore and Folkloristics; Vol. 4, No. 2. (December 2011) Bengali Graphic
Folklore and Folkloristics; Vol. 4, No. 2. (December 2011) Article-4 Bengali graphic novels for children-Sustaining an intangible heritage of storytelling traditions from oral to contemporary literature - Dr. Lopamudra Maitra Abstract The paper looks into graphic novels acting as an important part of preserving and sustaining a part of intangible heritage and a specific trend of socio-cultural traditions pertaining to children across the globe- the art of storytelling. In West Bengal, the art of storytelling for children sustains itself through time through various proverbs, anecdotes, rhymes and stories, handed down from generations and expressing more than mere words in oral tradition. Occupying a significant aspect of communication even in recent times, the publication and recent popularity of several graphic novels in Bengali have reintroduced several of these stories from oral tradition yet again with the help of popular culture. Along with the plethora of such stories from oral tradition is the recent range of literature for children in Bengali. Thus, the variety of graphic novels include various stories which were collected and published from oral traditions nearly a hundred years back, to the most recent creations of printed literature for children. The conceptions embrace the efforts of stalwarts of Bengali children’s literature, including, Dakkhinaranjan Mitra Majumdar, Upendrakishore Raychowdhury, Sukumar Ray, Satyajit Ray, Shibram Chakraborty, Narayan Gangopadhyay, Premendra Mitra and others. Exploring a significant part of the intangible heritage of mankind- the art of storytelling for children survives across the globe in varied and myriad hues of expression- with two significant contributors occupying centre stage- the narrator and the listener. -
( :R:.NSUS of INDIA 1951
(_:r:.NSUS OF INDIA 1951 . VOLUME VI VVEST BENGAL & SIKKIM PART IC-REPORT THE CENSUS PUBLICATION~ THE CENsus PUBLICATIONS for West Bengal, Sikkim · and Chandernagore will consist of the following volumes .. All volumes will be of uniform size, demy quarto 8i"Xll1": Part !A-General Report by A. Mitra containing t·he first five chapters '·of the Report in addition to a Preface, an Introduction, and a bibliography. 587 Pages. Part IB-Vital Statistics, West Bengal, 1941-50 by A. Mitra and· P. G. Choudhury, containing a Preface, 60 tables, and several appendices. 75 Pages. Part IC-General Report by· A. Mitra (the present volume). Part II-Union and State Census Tables of West Bengal, Sikkim and Chandernagore by A. Mitra. 535 Pages. Part III-Report on Calcutta City by A. Mitra. About 550 Pages. Part IV-Tables of the Calcutta Industrial Region by A .. Mitra. About 450 Pages. Part V-Administrativv Report of the Census Operations· of West Bengal, Sikkim, Chandernagore and Calcutta City: Enumeration: by A. Mitra. 96 Pages. The Tribes and Castes of West Bengal-edited by A. Mitra, containing. 1951 tables of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in West Bengal. A monograph on the Origin of Caste by Sailendranath Sengupta, a monograph on several · artisan castes and tribes by Sudhansu Kumar Ray, an article by Professor Kshitishprasad Chattopadhyay, an article on Dharmapuja by Sri Asutosh Bhattacharyya. Appendices. of Selections from old authorities like Sherring, Dalton, Risley, Gait and O'Malley. An Introduction; 414 Pages and eighteen plates. · . An Account of Land Management in West Bengal, 1872-1952, by A. -
2012 National History Bee National Championships Round 3: (Non-US History 1492-1932)
2012 National History Bee National Championships Round 3: (Non-US History 1492-1932) 2012 NATIONAL HISTORY BEE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS ROUND 3: (NON-US HISTORY 1492-1932) 1. The people who performed this action were part of a group called "those of March 1;" they later tried to recreate their success as part of a group called "the second first of March." The left-wing terrorist group that committed this action was later tried in the Trial of the Fourteen. Ignacy Hrynieweickei (her-IN-ee-VECK-ee) delivered its fatal blow after an initial bomb only killed a Cossack bodyguard. This action followed a failed attempt to set off a bomb at the Winter Palace. It was committed by members of the People's Will as a certain ruler was heading to a military roll call in St. Petersburg. For the point, name this 1881 event which saw the death of the Russian czar who had earlier emancipated the serfs. ANSWER: assassination of Alexander II [or equivalents mentioning people killing Alexander II; prompt on answers that give Alexander without a number] 064-12-58-21101 2. It's not an American title, but one man with this title appointed Matthew Maury the Commissioner of Immigration. The last holder of this title was defeated despite a daring hussar charge by Felix Salm-Salm. That man with this title set up the New Virginia Colony in his country to welcome in ex-Confederates. This position was first held by the leader of the Army of the Three Guarantees, who issued the Plan of Iguala. -
UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations
UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title Economies, Moralities, and State Formations in British Colonial India Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0h23p0rv Author Wilson, Nicholas Hoover Publication Date 2012 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California Economies, Moralities, and State Formations in British Colonial India By Nicholas Hoover Wilson A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Ann Swidler, Chair Professor Neil Fligstein Professor James Vernon Professor Dylan Riley Fall 2012 Abstract Economies, Moralities, and State Formations in British Colonial India by Nicholas Hoover Wilson Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology University of California, Berkeley Professor Ann Swidler, Chair How is modern power organized? My dissertation explores this question by probing how state, society, and economy became ethically autonomous spheres for colonial administrators. In other words, I ask how officials shifted justifications for their behavior from referring to their immedi- ate peers to the abstract imperatives of markets, the social, and sovereignty. Corruption scandals were a key cause of this shift. Endemic to the English East India Trading Company's administration in India since its foundation, these scandals generally involved admin- istrative squabbles escalating into appeals to authorities in London. However, while the scandals had a consistent form, the Seven Years War decisively changed their content. The war eroded the insulation protecting the Company's London authorities from Parliament and put a host of new actors who had little knowledge of Indian affairs in a position to influence the Company's behav- ior. -
Holwells' Monumental Hoax
INNER SPACE HOLWELL’S MONUMENTAL HOAX IncogRito* ohn Zephaniah Holwell was a learned but lonely man. political asylum to Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah’s rival to the JA surgeon by training and a magistrate by profession, throne of Murshidabad. Not surprisingly, this invited the the 45-year old Irishman had increased the revenue of the wrath of the Nawab who, already disturbed by the British East India Company by rooting out corruption and Company’s fortifications, was itching for a reason to rid abuse that the Company’s merchants indulged in. This his land of the “hatmen”. did not win him too many friends among his compatriots, The 200 kilometre distance between Murshidabad and and he lived in an isolated alcove beside the Burial Ground Calcutta ordinarily took the best part of a month to travel, at the southern edge of Calcutta’s White Town. and progress was considerably slower when accompanied A half-century after Job Charnock’s discovery of the by 30,000 soldiers, 18,000 horses, 2,000 camels, 400 trained city, Calcutta was still going through growing pains. East elephants and 80 pieces of cannon. Yet despite adequate Indiaman ships brought in droves of young enterprising warnings of the advance and news of a quick capitulation Englishmen to this fabled land, attracted by promises of of the Company’s outpost at Cossimbazar, Drake continued wealth and fortune, but their arrival was typically met with to believe that the Nawab would never have the courage disappointment. With enthusiasm sacrificed to dreary book- to assault Fort William. In reality, the Old Fort was in a keeping, energy dissipated by the burning sun, and state of severe disrepair— the cannons were unused and movements restricted to the one-square mile area around rusted, the ammunition supply was damp and the Maratha Fort William (for fear of thugs and tigers), most succumbed Ditch surrounding Calcutta was shallow and incomplete. -
Economies, Moralities, and State Formations in British Colonial India
Economies, Moralities, and State Formations in British Colonial India By Nicholas Hoover Wilson A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Ann Swidler, Chair Professor Neil Fligstein Professor James Vernon Professor Dylan Riley Fall 2012 Abstract Economies, Moralities, and State Formations in British Colonial India by Nicholas Hoover Wilson Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology University of California, Berkeley Professor Ann Swidler, Chair How is modern power organized? My dissertation explores this question by probing how state, society, and economy became ethically autonomous spheres for colonial administrators. In other words, I ask how officials shifted justifications for their behavior from referring to their immedi- ate peers to the abstract imperatives of markets, the social, and sovereignty. Corruption scandals were a key cause of this shift. Endemic to the English East India Trading Company's administration in India since its foundation, these scandals generally involved admin- istrative squabbles escalating into appeals to authorities in London. However, while the scandals had a consistent form, the Seven Years War decisively changed their content. The war eroded the insulation protecting the Company's London authorities from Parliament and put a host of new actors who had little knowledge of Indian affairs in a position to influence the Company's behav- ior. Consequently, when Company officials in India appealed to London, they used the abstract moral language of state, society, and economy to appeal to these new actors for assistance. Moreover, these newly abstract justifications were then used by the succeeding class of senior Company administrators as resources to shape reforms of the Colonial State in India. -
Hanslope Park, Original in Repton’S Red Book (1791-92), Engraving in Peacock’S Polite Repository, December 1794
Understanding Historic Parks and Gardens in Buckinghamshire The Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust Research & Recording Project Hanslope Park, original in Repton’s Red Book (1791-92), engraving in Peacock’s Polite Repository, December 1794 (The Gardens Trust, Nigel Temple Collection) HANSLOPE PARK March 2018, revised May 2018 The Stanley Smith (UK) Horticultural Trust Bucks Gardens Trust Bucks Gardens Trust, Site Dossier: Hanslope Park, Milton Keynes District, MAY 2018 HISTORIC SITE BOUNDARY 1 Bucks Gardens Trust, Site Dossier: Hanslope Park, Milton Keynes District, MAY 2018 INTRODUCTION Background to the Project This site dossier has been prepared as part of The Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust (BGT) Research and Recording Project, begun in 2014. This site is one of several hundred designed landscapes county-wide identified by Bucks County Council (BCC) in 1998 (including Milton Keynes District) as potentially retaining evidence of historic interest, as part of the Historic Parks and Gardens Register Review project carried out for English Heritage (now Historic England) (BCC Report No. 508). The list is not conclusive and further parks and gardens may be identified as research continues or further information comes to light. Content BGT has taken the Register Review list as a sound basis from which to select sites for appraisal as part of its Research and Recording Project for designed landscapes in the historic county of Bucks (pre-1974 boundaries). For each site a dossier is prepared by volunteers trained on behalf of BGT by experts in appraising designed landscapes who have worked extensively for English Heritage (now Historic England) on its Register Upgrade Project. Each dossier includes the following for the site: • A site boundary mapped on the current Ordnance Survey to indicate the extent of the main part of the surviving designed landscape, also a current aerial photograph. -
CALCUTTA DIARY Ashok Mitra
CALCUTTA DIARY Ashok Mitra Contents A Prefatory Note Section One 1. Calcutta Every Day 2. The Burnt-out Cases 3. The Country Will Not Miss Him 4. Take a Girl like Her 5. The Song of Mother Courage 6. The Story of Indra Lohar 7. All that Lives Must Die 8. An Historical Parallel 9. The Emancipation of Kamal Bose 10. Fascism Shall Not Pass ... 11. Suffer Us Not To Mock Ourselves ... 12. A Brief Whiff of Hope 13. The Planes Do Not Land Here Any More 14. A Revolutionary Handshake 15. The Legacy and the Led 16. A Wizened Crowd 17. A "Reserve Army of Poets 18. A Small Funeral 19. The Nationalisation of Akhtari Bai 20. An Ordinary Man 21. The Quashing of Many Dreams 22. Cometh the Goddess 23. Totems Are All 24. Guernica's Children Remember 25. He Had Picked the Wrong Target Section Two 26. A Two-Sector Model 27. One Dream Which Did Not Come True 28. The New Obfuscators 29. A Ritual a Day 30. Toward the Ultimate Solution 31. Two Bits of Extra Chips 32. We Have Been Here Before 33. The Species of Make-Believe 34. He Who Escapes ... 35. Let Facts Speak ... 36. The Jesting Pilates 37. A Gleam in the Establishment Eye 38. The Champion Pan-Handlers Section Three 39. A Diary from Nowhere 40. The Only Hindu Kingdom in the World 41. Plastic Surgery Gone Waste 42. The Rich Have Inherited the Earth 43. An Integrated Society ... 44. Lord Kitchener is Alive and Kicking 45. A Certain Charm in the Old Rascal 46.