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Empire, Politics and the Creation of the 1935 India Act

Last Act of the Raj

By: Dr Andrew Muldoon

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Empire, Politics and the Creation of the 1935 India Act

Last Act of the Raj

By: Dr Andrew Muldoon

The 1935 Government of India Act was arguably the most significant turning point in the history of the British administration in India. The intent of the Act, a proposal for an Indian federation, was the continuation of British control of India, and the deflection of the challenge to the Raj posed by Gandhi, Nehru and the nationalist movement. This book seeks to understand why British administrators and politicians believed that such a strategy would work and what exactly underpinned their reasons. It is argued that British efforts to defuse and disrupt the activities of Indian nationalists in the interwar years were predicated on certain cultural beliefs about Indian political behaviour and capacity. However, this was not simply a case of 'Orientalist' policy-making. Faced with a complicated political situation, a staggering amount of information and a constant need to produce analysis, the officers of the Raj imposed their own cultural expectations upon events and evidence to render them comprehensible. Indians themselves played an often overlooked role in the formulation of this political intelligence, especially the relatively few Indians who maintained close ties to the colonial government such as T.B. Sapru and M.R. Jayakar. These men were not just mediators, as they have frequently been portrayed, but were in fact important tacticians whose activities further demonstrated the weaknesses of the colonial information economy. The author employs recently released archival material, including the Indian Political Intelligence records, to situate the 1935 Act in its multiple and overlapping contexts: internal British culture and politics; the imperial 'information order' in India; and the politics of Indian nationalism. This rich and nuanced study is essential reading for scholars working on British, Indian and imperial history.

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1409480399

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Contemporary of Indian History

By: Dr. Prakash M Badiger

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Contemporary of Indian History

By: Dr. Prakash M Badiger

*At Delhi, the ostensible and emblematic; authority had a place with the Emperor Bahadur Shah, however the genuine order lay with a Court of Soldiers headed by General Bakht Khan who had driven the revolt of the Bareilly troops and conveyed them to Delhi.* In the British armed force, Bakht Khan was a customary subedar of mounted guns.*Bakht Khan spoke to the well known and conventional component at the central command of the Revolt.*After the British control of Delhi in September 1857, Bakht Khan went to Lucknow and kept on battling the British till he kicked the bucket in a fight on 13 May 1859.*The Emperor Bahadur Shah was maybe the weakest connection in the chain of authority of the Revolt.

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Lulu.com

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1387717529

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9781387717521

Beyond Fideism

Negotiable Religious Identities

By: Dr Olli-Pekka Vainio

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Beyond Fideism

Negotiable Religious Identities

By: Dr Olli-Pekka Vainio

After the postmodern turn, every tradition seeks the right to have their own rules of rational discourse. The crucial question is: are there ways to communicate between the traditions so that the traditions do not need to give up their identities in order to take part in conversation? Vainio examines the basic assumptions behind well known types of Christian theology and seeks ways in which they might interact with one other and with other non-Christian traditions without capitulation of their identities. Vainio claims that there are religious identities that can be negotiated and communicated, and that there are ecclesiastical doctrines which can be meaningfully discussed among churches. This book explores three key areas: analysis of the uses of 'fideism' within classical Christian theology; clarification of different types of theological method that seek to express the task of theology in contemporary setting; an explanation of the contours of religious identity and rationality which takes seriously both classical Christian identity and pluralistic contexts where most of the Christian communities dwell nowadays. The proposal for "negotiability" of Christian identity draws together ideas from, among others, virtue epistemology, reformed epistemology, communitarianism, and feminist sensibilities.

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1409481158

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W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and the Poetry of Paradise

By: Dr Sean Pryor

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W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and the Poetry of Paradise

By: Dr Sean Pryor

Emphasizing the interplay of aesthetic forms and religious modes, Sean Pryor's ambitious study takes up the endlessly reiterated longing for paradise that features throughout the works of W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound. Yeats and Pound define poetry in terms of paradise and paradise in terms of poetry, Pryor suggests, and these complex interconnections fundamentally shape the development of their art. Even as he maps the shared influences and intellectual interests of Yeats and Pound, and highlights those moments when their poetic theories converge, Pryor's discussion of their poems' profound formal and conceptual differences uncovers the distinctive ways each writer imagines the divine, the good, the beautiful, or the satisfaction of desire. Throughout his study, Pryor argues that Yeats and Pound reconceive the quest for paradise as a quest for a new kind of poetry, a journey that Pryor traces by analysing unpublished manuscript drafts and newly published drafts that have received little attention. For Yeats and Pound, the journey towards a paradisal poetic becomes a never-ending quest, at once self-defeating and self-fulfilling - a formulation that has implications not only for the work of these two poets but for the study of modernist literature.

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1409478459

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Danny's Tavern

A Collection of Neighborhood Stories 1935-1975

By: Dr. Tom Melvin

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Danny's Tavern

A Collection of Neighborhood Stories 1935-1975

By: Dr. Tom Melvin

Welcome to Danny's Tavern. There is a cast of characters that will take you back in time to a place where friends gathered and memories were made. Join Billy Flynn, the local bartender, as he spans a five decade story of a neighborhood and its cast of characters. Booker is the kind-hearted owner of Danny's Tavern. Chico is a tough seaman who has seen the rough edges of the world. Richie Quinn could have been a professional boxer, but the world needed him to make a living in the hard world of meat packing. Joe Scarletta, raised by first generation Italian parents, found his world behind the wheel of a big rig truck, always moving around the country. Casey found his home in the county lock-up as much as anywhere else, a tough troubled soul. These men found kinship in a local watering hole in Dorchester called Danny's Tavern...

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Empire, Politics and the Creation of the 1935 India Act

Empire, Politics and the Creation of the 1935 India Act

Contemporary of Indian History

Contemporary of Indian History

Beyond Fideism

Beyond Fideism

W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and the Poetry of Paradise

W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and the Poetry of Paradise

Danny's Tavern

Danny's Tavern

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