Holmes Of The Raj

Author : Vithal Rajan
Publisher : Random House India
ISBN 13 : 8184002505
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holmes of the Raj written by Vithal Rajan and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1888. As Central Asia reels under the intrigues of the Great Game, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson sail to India on a secret mission in the service of Empire. The accountant of a Hindu monastery has been brutally murdered, and the head priest is the prime suspect. But as both detective and doctor soon discover, their Indian autumn has only just begun. They are plunged into a series of adventures that take them from Madras and Pondicherry to the princely courts of Hyderabad, the uncharted jungles of the Central Provinces, pine-scented Nainital, and the bustling metropolis of Calcutta. Even as Holmes unravels sinister plots, Watson busies himself helping Ronald Ross track the malaria parasite and advising a schoolboy called Dhyan Chand on the finer points of hockey. The six stories in Holmes of the Raj are delightful vignettes of life and politics in colonial India. Vithal Rajan breathes life into historical characters, as Holmes and Watson meet Lord Ripon, Madame Blavatsky, Francis Younghusband, Kipling and Kim himself, Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Ramanujan, Motilal Nehru, Tagore, Jinnah, and many, many others. Sprightly, colourful, and remarkably faithful to Conan Doyle, this is an unforgettable collection.

Author : Vithal Rajan
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781434825896
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holmes of the Raj written by Vithal Rajan and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2008-02-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An 'Orientalist' piece of fiction, written tongue incheek, about the Raj at the height of its power in the late 19th century, with Holmes and Watson appropriating themselves leadership in several fields, whether it is politics, religion, medicine, or even cricket or mathematics. The Great Detective and the intrepid Doctor meet not only captains of empire - such as Lord Ripon, Viceroy Lansdowne, Captain Younghusband and Dr. Ronald Ross - and modem Indian leaders - such as Motilal Nehru and Mohammed Ali Jinnah - but also Kipling's characters, Kim and Mowgli, embedded in everybody's collective literary memory. Inpassing, they expose the true identity of Jack the Ripper, send Professor Moriarty to an ashram, and foil General Dyer's attempt on Annie Besant's life.

Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007370342
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750–1914 written by Richard Holmes and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts from the soldiers who served in the jewel in Britain’s Imperial Crown.

Author : Lawrence James
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312263829
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raj written by Lawrence James and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-08-12 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the critically acclaimed author of "The Rise and Fall of the British Empire" comes an unapologetic revisionist history of British rule in India. James recounts the twists and turns of imperialism and independence with a wealth of new material. 8-page photo insert.

Author : Aileen Keating
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615925384
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mirage written by Aileen Keating and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2012-05-25 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating history of the discovery, development, and exploitation of Middle East oil, an international journalist tells a largely unknown story rich in drama, conflict, and comic interludes. Illustrations.

Author : David Gilmour
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466830018
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ruling Caste written by David Gilmour and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sparkling, provocative history of the English in South Asia during Queen Victoria's reign Between 1837 and 1901, less than 100,000 Britons at any one time managed an empire of 300 million people spread over the vast area that now includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Burma. How was this possible, and what were these people like? The British administration in India took pride in its efficiency and broad-mindedness, its devotion to duty and its sense of imperial grandeur, but it has become fashionable to deprecate it for its arrogance and ignorance. In this balanced, witty, and multi-faceted history, David Gilmour goes far to explain the paradoxes of the "Anglo-Indians," showing us what they hoped to achieve and what sort of society they thought they were helping to build. The Ruling Caste principally concerns the officers of the legendary India Civil Service--each of whom to perform as magistrate, settlement officer, sanitation inspector, public-health officer, and more for the million or so people in his charge. Gilmour extends his study to every level of the administration and to the officers' women and children, so often ignored in previous works. The Ruling Caste is the best book yet on the real trials and triumphs of an imperial ruling class; on the dangerous temptations that an empire's power encourages; on relations between governor and governed, between European and Asian. No one interested in politics and social history can afford to miss this book.

Author : Sumanta Banerjee
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583670351
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Raj written by Sumanta Banerjee and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like other pre-colonial socio-economic formations, the profession of prostitution underwent a dramatic change in Bengal soon after the British take-over. Under the Raj explores the world of the prostitute in nineteenth century Bengal. It traces how, from the peripheries of pre-colonial Bengali rural society, they came to dominate the center-stage in Calcutta, the capital of British India--thanks to the emergence of a new clientele brought forth by the colonial order. Sumanta Banerjee examines the policies the British administration implemented to revamp the profession to suit its needs, as well as to screen its practitioners in a bid to protect its minions in the army from venereal diseases. He also analyzes the class structure within the prostitute community in nineteenth century Bengal, its complex relationship with the Bengali bhadralok society--and, what is more important and fascinating for modern researchers in popular culture--the voices of the prostitutes themselves, which we hear from their songs, letters, and writings, collected and reproduced from both oral tradition and printed sources.

Author : Jamyang Norbu
Publisher : Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
ISBN 13 : 158234132X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sherlock Holmes written by Jamyang Norbu and published by Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA. This book was released on 2001-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "lost years" Sherlock Holmes are revealed through the scroll of a Bengali scholar who traveled with the great detective in Asia. 20,000 first printing.

Author : Patrick O'Leary
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526118416
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Servants of the empire written by Patrick O'Leary and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Punjab, ‘the pride of British India’, attracted the cream of the Indian Civil Service, many of the most influential of whom were Irish. Some of these men, along with Irish viceroys, were inspired by their Irish backgrounds to ensure security of tenure for the Punjabi peasant, besides developing vast irrigation schemes which resulted in the province becoming India’s most affluent. But similar inspiration contributed to the severity of measures taken against Indian nationalist dissent, culminating in the Amritsar massacre which so catastrophically transformed politics on the sub-continent. Setting the experiences of Irish public servants in Punjab in the context of the Irish diaspora and of linked agrarian problems in Ireland and India, this book descrides the beneficial effects the Irish had on the prosperity of India’s most volatile province. Alongside the baleful contribution of some towards a growing Indian antipathy towards British rule. Links are established between policies pursued by Irishmen of the Victorian era and current happenings on the Pakistan-Afghan border and in Punjab.

Author : Carl Vadivella Belle
Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9814620955
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tragic Orphans written by Carl Vadivella Belle and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1938, noting that the bulk of the Indian population formed a "e;landless proletariat"e; and despairing of the ability of the factionalized Indian community to unite in pursuit of common objectives, activist K.A. Neelakanda Ayer forecast that the fate of Indians in Malaya would be to become "e;Tragic orphans"e; of whom India has forgotten and Malaya looks down upon with contempt"e;. Ayer's words continue to resonate; as a minority group in a nation dominated politically by colonially derived narratives of "e;race"e; and ethnicity and riven by the imperatives of religion, the general trajectory of the economically and politically impotent Indian community has been one of increasing irrelevance. This book explores the history of the modern Indian presence in Malaysia, and traces the vital role played by the Indian community in the construction of contemporary Malaysia. In this comprehensive new study, Carl Vadivella Belle offers fresh insights on the Indian experience spanning the period from the colonial recruitment of Indian labour to the post-Merdeka political, economic and social marginalization of Indians. While recent Indian challenges to the political status quo - a regime described as that of "e;benign neglect"e; - promoted Indian hopes of reform, change and uplift, the author concludes that the dictates of political discourse permeated by the ideologies of communalism offer limited prospects for meaningful change.