In later decades of eighteenth century, Missionaries were connected to learned men who were interested in natural history in Europe and India.doi:10.1007/s12038-013-9316-9Rajesh KochharJournal of BiosciencesKoCHHAR, R. 2000: natural history in India during 18th and 19th centuries. - J. Bios-...
For many years of its long history, India faced incursions from the north by Turks, Arabs, Persians and others. By the 19th century, Great Britain became the dominant power on the subcontinent. After years of nonviolent struggle against British rule, India gained its independence in 1947. The...
It took more than a century to graduate to its present form but its history goes as far back as 300 BC, thus it will be difficult to present in detail in this short article. However, an attempt will be made to study the statistical development in ancient India and throught to the ...
'This is a monograph by a young scholar which takes a notoriously difficult problem in 19th century colonial history the rumoured religious cult of Thuggee whereby travellers in a remote region of Uttar Pradesh, were randomly strangled and thrown down wells - and, with persistence and intelligence...
In the 19th century two literary languages arose from thatcolloquialtongue: among Hindus, the modern form of Hindi, which derives its vocabulary and script (Devanagari) mainly fromSanskrit; and among Muslims, Urdu, which, though grammatically identical with Hindi, draws much of its vocabulary from...
Archaeological fieldwork in 1997 on the Isle of Dogs, at the south-east entrance to the West India Docks, recovered evidence of 17th- to 19th-century shipyards, associated activities and foreign trade. Reused timbers may be the remains of the 17th-century Rolt's yard. Reclamation along the ...
Her unpublished "Family History" (1935) stages the story of her parents' transnational marriage as a series of homes the family inhabited in Britain and India -- thereby providing a heretofore unavailable narrative of the domestic face of 19th century Indian nationalism. Cornelia Sorabji was one ...
摘要: ► 19th century U.S. data has similar levels of misallocation as modern India and China. ► This casts doubt on the institutional explanation given by Hsieh and Klenow (2009). ► 15% of the growth in manufacturing TFP is due to better allocation of resources....
In the early 16th century, the Emperor BABUR established the Mughal Dynasty, which ruled India for more than three centuries. European explorers began establishing footholds in India during the 16th century.By the 19th century, Great Britain had become the dominant political power on the ...
Chaudhary persuasively contends that his approach in reading 19th-century photography from the Indian subcontinent aims to examine how embodiment interfaces with history, not in an effort to plot direct correspondences between both but to explore what possibilities arise for visual discourse in relation ...