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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"British India"”.
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The background and predisposing causes of leprosy in Poona district, British India
… study of it further at this time. On return to India, the author hopes to continue the study of leprosy in Poona District, and to make an effort to place the control of the disease on a better footing. From study of the land and the people, their habits, their diseases, their mental equipment, …
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Prison-discipline and the making of racial capitalism in British India, 1857-1930
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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ASHRAF 'ALI THANAWI'S BIHISHTI ZEWAR: MUSLIM FEMALE PIETY UNDER THE DEOBANDI MOVEMENT IN BRITISH INDIA
… women of the ashraf class in late colonial India. The study explores the both religious and secular literature in Urdu produced during the dusk of imperialism in India. It concludes that female piety was similarly imagined by both the 'ulama and the secular writers during that era.
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Guns and shikaris: The rise of the sahib's hunting ethos and the fall of the subaltern poacher in British India, 1750-1947
… dissertation examines the history of hunting in India under British colonialism, but with some background on earlier periods and a brief discussion on Nepal and successor states of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh. The study relies on Indian and British sources including private papers, memoirs, …
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The journey from New Delhi to Islamabad : dependence and subversion in the ambivalent expression of nationhood
… God Child" - as the capital city of Imperial British India, and post-colonial Islamabad - "The City of Islam" - as the capital city of the nation-state the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The paper identifies a colonial legacy in Islamabad, and establishes the dialogic persistence of …
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MODERN RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS OF COLONIAL SOUTH ASIA: THE ORIGINS OF REVIVAL AND REFORM
During the British colonial period of South Asia, religious movements such as Buddhist modernism and Hindu nationalism became powerful agents of resistance and change. These developments, shaped by the contrasting influences of Western cultural domination and the pervasiveness of preexisting social …
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Experience on trial: criminal law and the modernist novel
… examines E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) within the context of the administration of justice in British India. Adela Quested’s supposed assault within the Marabar cave is argued to be a non-event which in no way conforms to the modern sense of experience outlined in the …
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The Lokamanya and the Sardar : two generations of Congress 'communalism'
… fed a steady growth of Muslim separatism in British India which led to the creation of Pakistan in 1947. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the evidence of such communal attitudes within the major movement dedicated to achieving Indian nationhood, the Indian National Congress. From its …
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A Comparative History of Gender and Factory Labour in Ottoman Bursa and Colonial Bombay, c.1850-1910
… industrialisation in the late Ottoman Empire and British India. It examines the ways in which gendered notions of skill, waged work, domesticity and technology shaped employment patterns, labour processes and politics in silk factories in Bursa and cotton mills in Bombay between 1850 and 1910. The …
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Surviving Modernity: Ashraf 'Ali Thanvi (1863-1943) and the Making of Muslim Orthodoxy in Colonial India
… substance, and staging of Muslim orthodoxy in British India, concentrating on how orthodox theologians survived colonial modernity by deploying sociological, discursive, psychic, and hermeneutical strategies. This dissertation is organized around Ashraf `Ali Thanvi (1863-1943), a leading Muslim …
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Mohajir subnationalism and the Mohajir Qaumi Movement in Sindh Province, Pakistan
… a critical examination of the Muslim movement in British India, which culminated in the formation of Pakistan. The political history of Pakistan up to 1993 is then examined, with particular reference to the development of subnationalist movements. There then follows a detailed appraisal of debates …
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Batwara : partition and the city of Amritsar
The Partition of British India into the two dominions of India and Pakistan on August 15th 1947 left In its wake the largest human migration of the twentieth century with the transfer of twelve million people across two newly formed borders. The boundary line, demarcating Indian and Pakistani …
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Implementation across national boundaries: Implementing the Government of India Act 1935
… namely implementation of the Government of India Act, 1935, passed by the British Parliament that year. The first chapter shows, that decision-making literature, in the field of international relations, has concentrated on the process by which decisions are arrived at, while implementation …
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Occupation and resistance in southern Iraq: a study of Great Britain’s civil administration in the Middle Euphrates and the Great Rebellion, 1917-1920
… of this thesis is the complex history of the British occupation of the Middle Euphrates region of Iraq near the conclusion of the First World War and in its aftermath, which culminated in a massive rebellion in the summer of 1920. On the eve of WWI, Great Britain was faced with a combination …
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Shadows of Empire: The Mughal and British Colonial Heritage of Lahore
… existed for over a thousand years. In 1947 the British rule in the Indian subcontinent ended, resulting in the partition of British India into the modern states of India and Pakistan. At the time the Punjab province was also partitioned, with the western half (including Lahore) going to Pakistan …
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