Britain in India, 1765-1905, Volume IV

ISBN-13: 9781138750616 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 442 str.

John Marriott;Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay;Partha Chatterjee

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Seeks to explore the nature of the relationship between Britain and India at the height of imperial expansion. This collection is of interest among academic communities exploring British and Indian history. It is useful for literary, cultural and urban historians working in this area.

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Volume 4: Cultural and Social Interventions Warren Hastings, 'Bengal in 1772', W W Hunter, Annals of Rural Bengal (1868-72); Charles Grant, Observations on the State of Society among the Asiatic Subjects of Great Britain, particularly with Respect to Morals; and on the Means of Improving it Written Chiefly in the Year 1792 (1797?); William Ward, 'Introductory Remarks on the History, Manners, and Literature of the Hindoos', A View of the History, Literature and Mythology of the Hindoos: Including a Minute Description of their Manners and Customs, and Translations from their Principal Works (1815-18); William Ward, 'Remarks on the Tendency of the Hindoo Institutions, and on the Moral State of the Natives', A View of the History, Literature and Mythology of the Hindoos: Including a Minute Description of their Manners and Customs, and Translations from their Principal Works (1815-18); Thomas Munro, Liberty of the Press in India, minute of 12 April 1822 (1822); Raja Ramohun Roy, 'Memorial to the Supreme Court', S D Collet (ed), The Life and Letters of Raja Ramohun Roy (1962); A D 1829 Regulation XVII A Regulation for Declaring the Practice of Suttee, or of Burning or Burying Alive the Widows of Hindoos, Illegal, and Punishable by the Criminal Courts (1829); Act No XI of 1835 [Repealing the Regulation Preventing the Establishment of Printing Presses] (1835); Examination of Coolies returned from Mauritius (1840); R Hartley Kennedy, 'The Suttee: The Narrative of an Eye-Witness', Bentley's Miscellany (1843); AD 1844 Act XXI An Act for Regulating the Emigration of the Native Inhabitants of the Territories under the Government of the East-India Company to Jamaica, British Guiana, and Trinidad (1844); J Long, 'A Return of the Names and Writings of 515 Persons connected with Bengali Literature, either as Authors or Translators of Printed Works Chiefly during the last fifty years; and a catalogue of Bengali newspapers and periodicals which have issued from the press from the year 1818 to 1855', Selections from the Records of the Bengal Government (1855); Kristo Doss Paul, Young Bengal Vindicated (1856); J Sleeman, 'Statement showing the Number of Criminals Arrested and Disposed of by Officers of the Thuggee Department during 1856', Selection from the Records of the Government of India (1857); Act No XV of 1856 An Act to Remove all Legal Obstacles to the Marriage of Hindoo Widows (1865); 'Human Sacrifices and Infanticide in India', Edinburgh Review (1864); Peary Mohun Mookerjee, 'On the Condition of the Bengal Ryot', Transactions of the Bengal Social Science Association (1870); Ram Gopaul Ghose, 'Remarks on the Black Acts', Public Speeches of Ram Gopaul Ghose and his Remarks on the Black Acts, together with a Brief Sketch of his Life (1871); Edward Dalton, 'Group VI Bhuniya or Bhuiya', Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal (1872); J Geoghegan, 'Statistics', Note on Emigration from India (1873); Fred Wooldridge, Report on the Mortality of Indian Immigrants in French Guiana during the First Half of the Year 1877 (1877); P C Mazumdar, 'The Development of the Brahmo Samaj', The Faith and Progress of the Brahmo Samaj (1882); 'Papers relating to Infant Marriage and Enforced Widowhood in India', Selections from the Records of the Government of India (1886); H H Risley, 'Introductory Essay: Caste in Relation to Marriage', The Tribes and Castes of Bengal: Ethnographic Glossary (1892)