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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Madras Presidency"”.
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The transportation of convicts from the Madras Presidency to the Straits Settlements, 1789 - 1860
… thesis examines convict transportation from the Madras Presidency to penal colonies across the Indian Ocean, particularly the Straits Settlements, between 1789 and 1860. It discusses the transportation of Indian convicts across the Indian Ocean as a carceral network, understanding it as a set of …
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Petitioning and Political Culture in Late Company Madras, 1830-1860
… political culture existed in the understudied presidency of Madras. Incorporating archival material from British and Indian archives, this dissertation dissects the life-cycles, that is the origins and short and long-term effects, of mid-century colonial mass petitions. It does so by analysing …
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Towards a Common Language: Social Movements and Vernacular Publics in Telugu, 1900-1956
… unit) for Telugu speaking people in the Madras Presidency and represented the interests of Telugu speakers in Hyderabad State; the Telugu language debates (1910-1915), which argued over what form of Telugu (classical, literary or modern, non-literary) should be used in contemporary prose …
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Serpents of Empire: Moral Encounters in Natural History c.1780-1870
… incorporating vivisectional experiments in the Madras Presidency in the late eighteenth century; Orientalist representations of non-European interactions with snakes in nascent print culture; and the emotional economy of educational displays of living snakes in metropolitan Britain, especially …