Author: Walter Scott Seton-KarrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Selections from Calcutta Gazettes of the Years 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, and 1797
Author: Walter Scott Seton-KarrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record
Author: Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record
Author: Nicolas TrübnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
A monthly register of the most important works published in North and South America, in India, China, and the British colonies: with occasional notes on German, Dutch, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian books.
Empires of light
Author: Niharika DinkarPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526139650
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Light was central to the visual politics and imaginative geographies of empire, even beyond its role as a symbol of knowledge and progress in post-Enlightenment narratives. This book describes how imperial mappings of geographical space in terms of ‘cities of light’ and ‘hearts of darkness’ coincided with the industrialisation of light (in homes, streets, theatres) and its instrumentalisation through new representative forms (photography, film, magic lanterns, theatrical lighting). Cataloguing the imperial vision in its engagement with colonial India, the book evaluates responses by the celebrated Indian painter Ravi Varma (1848–1906) to reveal the centrality of light in technologies of vision, not merely as an ideological effect but as a material presence that produces spaces and inscribes bodies.
A History of Alcohol and Drugs in Modern South Asia
Author: Harald Fischer-TinéPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317916824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
At the beginning of the 21st century, alcoholism, transnational drug trafficking and drug addiction constitute major problems in various South Asian countries. The production, circulation and consumption of intoxicating substances created (and responded to) social upheavals in the region and had widespread economic, political and cultural repercussions on an international level. This book looks at the cultural, social, and economic history of intoxicants in South Asia, and analyses the role that alcohol and drugs have played in the region. The book explores the linkages between changing meanings of intoxicating substances, the making of and contestations over colonial and national regimes of regulation, economics, and practices and experiences of consumption. It shows the development of current meanings of intoxicants in South Asia – in terms of politics, cultural norms and identity formation – and the way in which the history of drugs and alcohol is enmeshed in the history of modern empires and nation states — even in a country in which a staunch teetotaller and active anti-drug crusader like Mohandas Gandhi is presented as the ‘father of the nation’. Primarily a historical analysis, the book also includes perspectives from Modern Indology and Cultural Anthropology and situates developments in South Asia in wider imperial and global contexts. It is of interest to scholars working on the social and cultural history of alcohol and drugs, South Asian Studies and Global History.
Agreeable News from Persia
Author: D.T. PottsPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3658360321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2077
Book Description
Eighteenth and nineteenth century European, British and American newspapers constitute a rich and largely untapped source of contemporary, often eyewitness accounts of historical events and opinions concerning Iran from the late Safavid (1712) through the Qajar (c. 1797-1920) period. This study collects and annotates thousands of articles published in the Colonial and early Republican American newspapers, from the first mention of events in Persia in the American press (1712) to the death of Mohammad Shah (1848), unlocking for the first time a wealth of information on Iran and its place in the world during the 18th and early 19th century.
Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
Author: Selections from Calcutta Gazettes of the years ...
Author: W. S. Seton-KarrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
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