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Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India In 1865, the British rulers of north India resolved to bring about the gradual extinction of transgender Hijra s. This book, the rst in-depth history of the Hijra community, illuminates the colonial and postcolo-nial governance of gender and sexuality and the production of colonial knowledge.
This volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on British colonial rule in India. It draws on sociology, history, and political science to look at key events and social process, between 1757 to 1947, to provide a comprehensive understanding of the colonial history. It begins with the introductory backdrop of the British East India Company when its ship docked at Surat in 1603 and ...
About The New Cambridge History of India. Although the original Cambridge History of India, published between 1922 and 1937, did much to formulate a chronology for Indian history and describe the administrative structures of government in India, it has inevitably been overtaken by the mass of new research published over the last sixty years.
The holy scriptures (the Vedas), written in the period between 1500 and 500 bce, gave form to customary practices, and there were periods in India’s pre-modern history where aspects of Hinduism achieved a relatively intelligible overall shape, notably between 500 bce and 300 bce when several Hindu schools of philosophy were founded and universities, monasteries, and (page 36) p. 36 temples ...
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Download PDF. The period 1700 to 1900 saw the beginnings, and the development, of the British Empire in India. Empire was not planned, at least not in the early stages. In a sense, it just happened. The first British in India came for trade, not territory; they were businessmen, not conquerors.
It is all too easy to forget that when Britain went to war in 1939, it did so as the world’s largest imperial power. Khan’s book is a rich social history of India at war, telling us the stories of not only the soldiers, but the business owners, the peasants, the refugees, and the political activists whose lives were shaped by war in the Indian subcontinent.
