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It is 1831 riots and rebellions are widespread In England the new government is facing protests against the attempts of the Torydominated House of Lords to thwart the passing of the Reform Bill In India relations are strained between the presidency of Madras and some of the neighbouring princely states Having taken command of the action in Bristol to restore order after one of the bloodiest and most destructive riots in the nations history LieutenantColonel Matthew Hervey is out of favour with the new government But then his old friend Sir Eyre Somervile offers him a lifeline Somervile has persuaded the Court of Directors of the East India Company to approve an increase in the Madras military establishment Hervey and the 6th Light Dragoons are sent to the princely state of Coorg The Rajah is in revolt against the East India Companys terms and Herveys regiment is called upon to crush the rebellion With the stakes raised by an unexpected visitation from his past for Hervey the question is whether he and his men will get out of this brutal war unscathed
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Britains threehundredyear relationship with the Indian subcontinent produced much fiction of interest but only one indisputable masterpiece E M Forsters A Passage to India published in 1924 at the height of the Indian independence movement Centering on an ambiguous incident between a young Englishwoman of uncertain stability and an Indian doctor eager to know his conquerors better Forsters book explores with unexampled profundity both the historical chasm between races and the eternal one between individuals struggling to ease their isolation and make sense of their humanity
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EM Forsteraposs 1924 political and philosophical masterpiece aposA Passage to Indiaapos is among the greatest novels of the twentieth century The book mirrors the troubled politics of colonialism and questions whether a friendship between a British person and an Indian would have been possible in those prejudiced times Adela Quested and her fellow British travelers set to experience the aposrealapos India develop a friendship with the suave Dr Aziz A mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar Caves and the trip results in a shocking accusation on the wellrespected doctor that throws Chandrapore into a fever of racial tension and results in a devastating series of events revealing how deeply the bigotry has taken root A powerful depiction of a society in the grasp of imperialism aposA Passage to Indiaapos portraits the future of individuals caught between the major political and cultural conflicts of the modern world
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The journals of the feisty independentminded Lady Henrietta Clive are among the very earliest written accounts of India by a British woman Married to Lord Edward Clive son of Clive of India and Governor of Madras she traveled through Southern India with her children in the aftermath of the Third Mysore War In this their first publication anthropologist Nancy Shields has skillfully interwoven extracts from the journals with passages from the diary of Charly Henriettas precocious 12yearold daughter who went on to tutor the future Queen Victoria first Empress of India Important as a historical and as a social document and also as a feminist travel text Birds of Passage is illustrated with watercolors by Anna Tonelli who accompanied the party on their voyage
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A travelogue of the nowfamed poet over six months in India between stints in Japan Snyder and his thenwife Joanne hit the Dharma trail through India and Nepal An adventure and good observations about life on the road seeing the sights meeting the mysticsTips about beggars Dalai Lama info
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Dr Aziz is a likeable Indian friend of Mr Fielding Dean of School of Government When he invited everyone to visit the famous Malabar cave Adela felt very happy for she finally had a chance to look for a real India
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Maharanis Misery sheds new light on the ordeal of indentured Indians especially women as they crossed the oceans to labour on sugar plantations in the Caribbean and elsewhere in the nineteenth century Narrating the tragedy of a young woman who died on one such passage apparently after being raped by crewmen the book analyses sexploitation as a routine aspect of the voyages of the coolie ships The testimonies of those who gave evidence to the resulting enquiry in 1885 are included verbatim an attempt to recover the voices of some of the indentureds men and women voices we rarely hear in the official documentation This book is a valuable addition to the growing literature on nineteenthcentury indentured Indian immigrationemigration and a gripping account of one womans tragedy Professor Bridget Brereton University of the West Indies St Augustine TrinidadMaharani is a most significant contribution to the new generation of scholarship on the history of Indian indentured migration deeply researched and sensitive to the new approaches of intellectual enquiry The authors ability to read the contemporary texts against the grain of official pronouncements and popular prejudice against women in particular and indentured labourers generally is truly impressive I have no doubt that this book will find a place on the shelves of every serious scholar of the subject Professor Brij Lal Australian National University CanberraMaharanis Misery is a major contribution to the peopling of IndoCaribbean history in the late nineteenth century It enables us to go beyond the inanimate history which speaks primarily of the power of the indentureship system the process of controlling the bound coolies Here the subaltern has a voice even in the midst of the tragedy one gets a feel for the women as actors however minor The work belongs also to the history of resistance in the regionDr Clem Seecharan University of North London
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In existence for 258 years the English East India Company ran a complex highly integrated global trading network It supplied the tea for the Boston Tea Party the cotton textiles used to purchase slaves in Africa and the opium for Chinas nineteenthcentury addiction In India it expanded from a few small coastal settlements to govern territories that far exceeded the British Isles in extent and population It minted coins in its name established law courts and prisons and prosecuted wars with one of the worlds largest armies Over time the Company developed a pronounced and aggressive colonialism that laid the foundation for Britains Eastern empire A study of the Company therefore is a study of the rise of the modern world In clear engaging prose Ian Barrow sets the rise and fall of the Company into political economic and cultural contexts and explains how and why the Company was transformed from a maritime trading entity into a territorial colonial state Excerpts from eighteen primary documents illustrate the main themes and ideas discussed in the text Maps illustrations a glossary and a chronology are also included
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Maharanis Misery sheds new light on the ordeal of indentured Indians especially women as they crossed the oceans to labour on sugar plantations in the Caribbean and elsewhere in the nineteenth century Narrating the tragedy of a young woman who died on one such passage apparently after being raped by crewmen the book analyses sexploitation as a routine aspect of the voyages of the coolie ships The testimonies of those who gave evidence to the resulting enquiry in 1885 are included verbatim an attempt to recover the voices of some of the indentureds men and women voices we rarely hear in the official documentation This book is a valuable addition to the growing literature on nineteenthcentury indentured Indian immigrationemigration and a gripping account of one womans tragedy Professor Bridget Brereton University of the West Indies St Augustine TrinidadMaharani is a most significant contribution to the new generation of scholarship on the history of Indian indentured migration deeply researched and sensitive to the new approaches of intellectual enquiry The authors ability to read the contemporary texts against the grain of official pronouncements and popular prejudice against women in particular and indentured labourers generally is truly impressive I have no doubt that this book will find a place on the shelves of every serious scholar of the subject Professor Brij Lal Australian National University CanberraMaharanis Misery is a major contribution to the peopling of IndoCaribbean history in the late nineteenth century It enables us to go beyond the inanimate history which speaks primarily of the power of the indentureship system the process of controlling the bound coolies Here the subaltern has a voice even in the midst of the tragedy one gets a feel for the women as actors however minor The work belongs also to the history of resistance in the regionDr Clem Seecharan University of North London
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Shipped from UK please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival Very Good Almost as new very slight wear to edges Volume 6a of the Abinger Edition of E M Forster limited to 1400 copies Correlated with Forsters final version by Oliver Stallybrass xxv 589p 23 cm
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In 1962 Gary Snyder with his wife the poet Joanne Kyger joined Allen Ginsberg and his companion Peter Orlovsky for a long trip to India and surrounding countries As always Snyder kept extensive journals of his travels and in this particular case also wrote the whole account in one long letter to his sister It was an amazing trip and one that eventually took on legendary status as an iconic Beat Voyage Complete with slides and photographs Passage Through India takes us on a journey that transcends time
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Dr Aziz is a young Muslim physician in the British Indian town of Chandrapore One evening he comes across an English woman Mrs Moore in the courtyard of a local mosque she and her younger travelling companion Adela are disappointed by claustrophobic British colonial culture and wish to see something of the real India But when Aziz kindly offers to take them on a tour of the Marabar caves with his close friend Cyril Fielding the trip results in a shocking accusation that throws Chandrapore into a fever of racial tension
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