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HINDUS -- 325 --- BRITISH RULE -- 325 --- INDEPENDENCE -- 325 --- ETHNIC CLEANSING -- 325 --- MUSLIMS -- 325
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India --- History --- India - History --- Indian history --- Europe --- Aryan culture --- the Mghuls --- Indian culture --- literature --- religion --- art --- British rule --- western civilization --- Mughal rule
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EAST INDIA COMPANY -- 327.2 --- IMPERIALISM -- 327.2 --- 18TH CENTURY - -- 327.2 --- GREAT BRITAIN -- 327.2 --- BRITISH RULE -- 327.2 --- BENGALEN -- 327.2 --- EUROPE -- 327.2
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A Political History of the Gambia: 1816-1994 is the first complete account of the political history of the former British West African dependency to be written. It makes use of much hitherto unconsulted or unavailable British and Gambian official and private documentary sources, as well as interviews with many Gambian politicians and former British colonial officials.
The first part of the book charts the origins and characteristics of modern politics in colonial Bathurst (Banjul) and its expansion into the Gambian interior (Protectorate) in the two decades after World War II. By independence in 1965, older urban-based parties in the capital had been defeated by a new, rural-based political organisation, the People's Progressive Party (PPP).
The second part of the book analyzes the means by which the PPP, under President Sir Dawda Jawara, succeeded in defeating both existing and new rival political parties and an attempted coup in 1981. The book closes with an explanation of the demise of the PPP at the hands of an army coup in 1994.
The book not only establishes those distinctive aspects of Gambian political history, but also relates these to the wider regional and African context, during the colonial and independence periods.
Emeritus Professor Arnold Hughes was educated at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Ibadan University, Nigeria. Between 1966 and 2001 he taught at the Centre of West African Studies, the University of Birmingham, becoming its Director and Professor of African Politics. He has researched and published widely on various aspects of African politics and political history and, since, 1972, developed a special interest in the political history of the Gambia. He has paid some twenty-five research visits to the Gambia and published two books, The Gambia: Studies in Society and Politics (1991) and Historical Dictionary of the Gambia (with H. A. Gailey) (1999); and over thirty articles and book chapters on Gambian politics.
#SBIB:96G --- #SBIB:328H419 --- Geschiedenis van Afrika --- Instellingen en beleid: andere Afrikaanse landen --- Gambia --- Politics and government. --- GambiaPolitics and government. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism. --- British rule. --- Gambia. --- Independence. --- Jawara government. --- Political history.
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A crystal-clear account of the entangled history of Western and Muslim feminisms. Western feminists, pundits, and policymakers tend to portray the Muslim world as the last and most difficult frontier of global feminism. Challenging this view, Elora Shehabuddin presents a unique and engaging history of feminism as a story of colonial and postcolonial interactions between Western and Muslim societies. Muslim women, like other women around the world, have been engaged in their own struggles for generations: as individuals and in groups that include but also extend beyond their religious identity and religious practices. The modern and globally enmeshed Muslim world they navigate has often been at the weaker end of disparities of wealth and power, of processes of colonization and policies of war, economic sanctions, and Western feminist outreach. Importantly, Muslims have long constructed their own ideas about women's and men's lives in the West, with implications for how they articulate their feminist dreams for their own societies. Stretching from the eighteenth-century Enlightenment era to the War on Terror present, Sisters in the Mirror shows how changes in women's lives and feminist strategies have consistently reflected wider changes in national and global politics and economics. Muslim women, like non-Muslim women in various colonized societies and non-white and poor women in the West, have found themselves having to negotiate their demands for rights within other forms of struggle--for national independence or against occupation, racism, and economic inequality. Through stories of both well-known and relatively unknown figures, Shehabuddin recounts instances of conflict alongside those of empathy, collaboration, and solidarity across this extended period. Sisters in the Mirror is organized around stories of encounters between women and men from South Asia, Britain, and the United States that led them, as if they were looking in a mirror, to pause and reconsider norms in their own society, including cherished ideas about women's roles and rights. These intertwined stories confirm that nowhere, in either Western or Muslim societies, has material change in girls' and women's lives come easily or without protracted struggle.
Islam --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Feminism --- Globalization --- Muslim women --- Religious aspects --- Islam. --- Political activity. --- History. --- British rule in India and Bangladesh. --- Islamic reform movements. --- Pakistan. --- South Asian feminist movement. --- United Nations Women’s Conference. --- international feminism. --- modern Muslim feminism. --- non Western. --- women's studies. --- women. --- Political activity --- History
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How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain's contemporaneous subjugation of the island of Sri Lanka. In Islanded, Sujit Sivasundaram reconsiders the arrival of British rule in South Asia as a dynamic and unfinished process of territorialization and state building, revealing that the British colonial project was framed by the island's traditions and maritime placement and built in part on the model they provided. Using palm-leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka to read the official colonial archive, Sivasundaram tells the story of two sets of islanders in combat and collaboration. He explores how the British organized the process of "islanding": they aimed to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethnology, culture, and geography. But rather than serving as a radical rupture, he reveals, islanding recycled traditions the British learned from Kandy, a kingdom in the Sri Lankan highlands whose customs-from strategies of war to views of nature-fascinated the British. Picking up a range of unusual themes, from migration, orientalism, and ethnography to botany, medicine, and education, Islanded is an engaging retelling of the advent of British rule.
Political psychology --- Sri Lanka --- Great Britain --- Colonization. --- Politics and government --- Relations --- sri lanka, great britain, indian ocean, colony, colonialism, colonial, imperialism, south asia, subjugation, british rule, territorialization, state building, manuscript, island, islanders, islanding, government, governance, governing, ethnology, culture, geography, cultural studies, kandy, customs, migration, ethnography, botany, medicine, education, politics, interactions, trade, land.
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Electricity is an integral part of everyday life-so integral that we rarely think of it as political. In Electrical Palestine, Fredrik Meiton illustrates how political power, just like electrical power, moves through physical materials whose properties govern its flow. At the dawn of the Arab-Israeli conflict, both kinds of power were circulated through the electric grid that was built by the Zionist engineer Pinhas Rutenberg in the period of British rule from 1917 to 1948. Drawing on new sources in Arabic, Hebrew, and several European languages, Electrical Palestine charts a story of rapid and uneven development that was greatly influenced by the electric grid and set the stage for the conflict between Arabs and Jews. Electrification, Meiton shows, was a critical element of Zionist state building. The outcome in 1948, therefore, of Jewish statehood and Palestinian statelessness was the result of a logic that was profoundly conditioned by the power system, a logic that has continued to shape the area until today.
Electrification --- Jewish-Arab relations. --- History --- Political aspects --- 1917. --- 1948. --- african politics. --- arab. --- arabic. --- arabs. --- british rule. --- conflict. --- electric grid. --- electricity. --- electrification. --- engineering. --- european languages. --- hebrew. --- israel and palestine history. --- israeli. --- jewish statehood. --- jews. --- middle eastern history. --- palestinian statelessness. --- palestinian. --- pinhas rutenberg. --- political power. --- power system. --- setting the stage for conflict. --- zionist.
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Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples is the first book-length study of the writer's evolving views regarding the aboriginal inhabitants of North America and the Southern Hemisphere, and his deeply conflicted representations of them in fiction, newspaper sketches, and speeches. Using a wide range of archival materials-including previously unexamined marginalia in books from Clemens's personal library-Driscoll charts the development of the writer's ethnocentric attitudes about Indians and savagery in relation to the various geographic and social milieus of communities he inhabited at key periods in his life, from antebellum Hannibal, Missouri, and the Sierra Nevada mining camps of the 1860s to the progressive urban enclave of Hartford's Nook Farm. The book also examines the impact of Clemens's 1895-96 world lecture tour, when he traveled to Australia and New Zealand and learned firsthand about the dispossession and mistreatment of native peoples under British colonial rule. This groundbreaking work of cultural studies offers fresh readings of canonical texts such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Roughing It, and Following the Equator, as well as a number of Twain's shorter works.
Indians of North America --- Indians in literature. --- Social conditions --- Twain, Mark, --- Clemens, Orion, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Characters --- Indians. --- Political and social views. --- West (U.S.) --- In literature. --- 1860s. --- aboriginal inhabitants. --- antebellum hannibal. --- archival materials. --- british rule. --- communities. --- conflicted representations. --- ethnocentric attitudes. --- fiction. --- indians. --- mining camps. --- missouri. --- native peoples. --- newspaper sketches. --- nook farm. --- north america. --- progressive urban. --- savagery. --- sierra nevada. --- social milieus. --- southern hemisphere. --- speeches. --- unexamined marginalia. --- world lecture tour.
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The Palestinian national movement gestated in the early decades of the twentieth century, but it was born during the Great Revolt of 1936-39, a period of Arab rebellion against British policy in the Palestine mandate. In The Crime of Nationalism, Matthew Kraig Kelly makes the unique case that the key to understanding the Great Revolt lies in what he calls the "crimino-national" domain-the overlap between the criminological and the nationalist dimensions of British imperial discourse, and the primary terrain upon which the war of 1936-39 was fought. Kelly's analysis amounts to a new history of one of the major anticolonial insurgencies of the interwar period and a critical moment in the lead-up to Israel's founding. The Crime of Nationalism offers crucial lessons for the scholarly understanding of nationalism and insurgency more broadly.
Violence --- HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine. --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- History. --- Palestine --- Great Britain --- Holy Land --- History --- Foreign relations --- Politics and government --- Violence - Palestine - History --- Palestine - History - Arab rebellion, 1936-1939 --- Palestine - History - 1917-1948 --- Great Britain - Foreign relations - Palestine --- Palestine - Foreign relations - Great Britain --- Palestine - Politics and government - 1917-1948 --- 1930s palestine. --- 1930s. --- 20th century. --- academic. --- analysis. --- anticolonial. --- arab. --- british rule. --- colonization. --- colony. --- crime. --- criminal law. --- discourse. --- early 20th century. --- great revolt. --- imperial. --- insurgency. --- insurgents. --- interwar. --- israel. --- law and order. --- legal issues. --- middle east. --- middle eastern history. --- modern world. --- national movement. --- nationalism. --- palestine. --- palestinian history. --- post colonial. --- rebellion. --- scholarly. --- social studies. --- wartime. --- world history.
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This book explores the financial relationship between the Indian government, as represented by the India Office, and the City of London during the period of direct British rule. The universally accepted view is that the Office acted in the interests of the City and to the detriment of India. 'Financing the Raj' disputes this conclusion. It argues that India was a constituent part of the City, contributing to and benefitting from its operation through the formation of close symbiotic and trust relationships, the exchange of gifts, the recycling of funds, and, perhaps most significantly, the support of the gold standard. The book examines the Office's activities from a British and practical perspective. In the first part, the issue and sale/purchase on the London market of Indian government debt is explored. Next, the author discusses the purchase of silver and the 'scandal' of 1912, when the award of a major contract to the family firm of the Under Secretary of State for India led to accusations of cronyism and fraud. The finance of Indian trade, the management of exchange rates and the transfer from India to London of the money needed to meet the Indian government's UK commitments are then investigated. The book concludes with an analysis of the Office's investment role and its management of the three cash reserves held in the capital. 'Financing the Raj' overturns many myths, demonstrating that those involved in Indian finance did work in the best interests of India and were well aware of the close interrelationship between Indian finance, the City of London and the wider British economy. It will be of interest both to historians of empire and historians of finance. DAVID SUNDERLAND is Reader in Business History at the University of Greenwich and the author of four monographs and numerous articles on the economic history of London, British Imperialism and nineteenth-century social capital. He is also Series and Collection editor of Pickering & Chatto's Britain and Africa series of source monographs.
Government lending --- Government loans --- Loans --- Linked deposit programs --- Great Britain. --- India --- Great Britain --- Economic policy --- Colonies --- Economic policy. --- Economic conditions --- Politics and government --- India Office (Great Britain) --- Bharat --- Bhārata --- Government of India --- Ḣindiston Respublikasi --- Inde --- Indië --- Indien --- Indii︠a︡ --- Indland --- Indo --- Republic of India --- Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa --- Yin-tu --- インド --- هند --- Индия --- 1800-1999 --- HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia. --- British Economy. --- British Imperialism. --- British Rule. --- City of London. --- Colonial India. --- Finance. --- Financing. --- Gold Standard. --- India Office. --- Indian Government. --- Symbiotic Relationships.
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