Mountstuart Elphinstone In South Asia

Author : Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190092602
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia written by Shah Mahmoud Hanifi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859), Lowland Scottish traveller, East India Company civil servant and educator, was one of the principal intellectual architects of British colonial rule in South Asia. Imbued with liberal views, such that Bombay's wealthy founded Elphinstone College in his memory, he pioneered the scholarly, scientific and administrative foundations of imperialism in India. Elphinstone's career was launched when he was picked to lead the inaugural British diplomatic mission to the Afghan court. His Account of the Kingdom of Caubul (1815) became the main source of British information about Afghanistan. He is best known for his periods as Resident at Poona and Governor of Bombay in the 1810s and 1820s, when he instituted innovative and lasting policies in administration and education while also conducting research for his extremely influential History of India (1841). This volume examines Mountstuart Elphinstone's intellectual contributions and administrative career in their own right, in relation to prominent contemporaries including Charles Metcalfe and William Moorcroft, and in the context of later historical study of India, Afghanistan, British imperialism and its imperial frontiers.

Author : Thomas Edward Colebrooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108294928
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life of the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone written by Thomas Edward Colebrooke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and work of one of Britain's colonial administrators in India, who eventually became Governor of Bombay.

Author : Mountstuart Elphinstone
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of India written by Mountstuart Elphinstone and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mountstuart Elphinstone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108131441
Total Pages : 595 pages
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Download or read book Selections from the Minutes and Other Official Writings of the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay written by Mountstuart Elphinstone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with an account of Elphinstone's life, this 1884 collection of the statesman's writings commemorates his role in Indian history.

Author : Mountstuart Elphinstone
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and Its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India written by Mountstuart Elphinstone and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Sutherland Cotton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
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Download or read book Mountstuart Elphinstone written by James Sutherland Cotton and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gareth Knapman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315452154
Total Pages : 404 pages
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Download or read book Race and British Colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1770-1870 written by Gareth Knapman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of "race" played an increasing role in nineteenth-century British colonial thought. For most of the nineteenth century, John Crawfurd towered over British colonial policy in South-East Asia, being not only a colonial administrator, journalist and professional lobbyist, but also one of the key racial theorists in the British Empire. He approached colonialism as a radical liberal, proposing universal voting for all races in British colonies and believing all races should have equal legal rights. Yet at the same time, he also believed that races represented distinct species of people, who were unrelated. This book charts the development of Crawfurd’s ideas, from the brief but dramatic period of British rule in Java, to his political campaigns against James Brooke and British rule in Borneo. Central to Crawfurd’s political battles were the debates he had with his contemporaries, such as Stamford Raffles and William Marsden, over the importance of race and his broader challenge to universal ideas of history, which questioned the racial unity of humanity. The book taps into little explored manuscripts, newspapers and writings to uncover the complexity of a leading nineteenth-century political and racial thinker whose actions and ideas provide a new view of British liberal, colonial and racial thought.

Author : Avinash Paliwal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190911581
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book My Enemy's Enemy written by Avinash Paliwal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The archetype of 'my enemy's enemy is my friend', India's political and economic presence in Afghanistan is often viewed as a Machiavellian ploy aimed against Pakistan. The first of its kind, this book interrogates that simplistic yet powerful geopolitical narrative and asks what truly drives India's Afghanistan policy.

Author : Thomas Barfield
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691154414
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan written by Thomas Barfield and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-25 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the political history of Afghanistan from the sixteenth century to the present, looking at what has united the people as well as the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them.

Author : Michael S. Dodson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136484450
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trans-Colonial Modernities in South Asia written by Michael S. Dodson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting cutting-edge scholarship dedicated to exploring the emergence and articulation of modernity in colonial South Asia, this book builds upon and extends recent insights into the constitutive and multiple projects of colonial modernity. Eschewing the fashionable binaries of resistance and collaboration, the contributors seek to re-conceptualize modernity as a local and transitive practice of cultural conjunction. Whether through a close reading of Anglo-Indian poetry, Urdu rhyming dictionaries, Persian Bible translations, Jain court records, or Bengali polemical literature, the contributors interpret South Asian modernity as emerging from localized, partial and continuously negotiated efforts among a variety of South Asian and European elites. Surveying a range of individuals, regions, and movements, this book supports reflection on the ways traditional scholars and other colonial agents actively appropriated and re-purposed elements of European knowledge, colonial administration, ruling ideology, and material technologies. The book conjures a trans-colonial and trans-national context in which ideas of history, religion, language, science, and nation are defined across disparate religious, ethnic, and linguistic boundaries. Providing new insights into the negotiation and re-interpretation of Western knowledge and modernity, this book is of interest to students and scholars of South Asian Studies, as well as of intellectual and colonial history, comparative literature, and religious studies.