Suchergebnisse - "colonial India"

Missing women in colonial India von Fenske, James, Gupta, Bishnupriya, Neumann, Cora

“… We construct novel data on female population shares by age, district, and religion in South Asia from 1881 to 1931. Sex ratios skew male in Northern India and …”
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The gold-exchange standard in colonial India: foreshadowing the monetary hierarchy of the international state-credit standard von Vasudevan, Ramaa

“… This paper investigates how the concrete operation of the gold-exchange standard in colonial India imposed a process of financial subordination embedding colonial India in the currency hierarchy of British sterling …”
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Imperial Technology and 'Native' Agency: A Social History of Railways in Colonial India, 1850-1920 von Mukhopadhyay, Aparajita

“… This book explores the impact of railways on colonial Indian society from the commencement of railway operations in the mid-nineteenth to the early decades of …”
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Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India: Trials of an Interracial Family von Mallampalli, Chandra

“… How did British rule in India transform persons from lower social classes? Could Indians from such classes rise in the world by marrying Europeans and …”
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Long-term effects of access to health care: Medical missions in colonial India von Calvi, Rossella, Mantovanelli, Federico G.

“… Health outcomes in India vary substantially across regions. Motivated by mounting evidence of the historical persistence of institutions and behavior, this …”
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Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India von Lanzillo, Amanda

“… A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to …”
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The Imperial Underbelly: Workers, Contractors, and Entrepreneurs in Colonial India and Scandinavia

“… The volume introduces a new analysis of interconnected labour and economic history of colonial India and Scandinavia …”
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Credit risk in colonial India von Nath, Maanik

“… Credit was scarce and expensive in colonial India. Existing explanations assume a lack of market competition let moneylenders charge high interest rates …”
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Colonial India in Children's Literature von Goswami, Supriya

“… Colonial India in Children's Literature is the first book-length study to explore the intersections of children's literature and defining historical moments in colonial India …”
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Self-Rule and the Problem of Peoplehood in Colonial India von SULTAN, NAZMUL S.

“… This article theorizes the colonial problem of peoplehood that Indian anticolonial thinkers grappled with in their attempts to conceptualize self-rule, or …”
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Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India von Lanzillo, Amanda

“… In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class people across northern India found themselves negotiating rapid industrial change, emerging …”
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The Contrasting Footprint of Labour and Capital in Post‐colonial India von Breman, Jan

“… ABSTRACT India's struggle for independence held the promise of an end to poverty and redemption from the communal‐cum‐class‐based inequality which had kept the …”
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Shaping the Modern. Architectural Cultures and Critique in Late-colonial India (1913-c.1948) von Saptarshi Sanyal

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Learning to Labour: “Native” Orphans in Colonial India, 1840s–1920s von Soni

“… To this day, the history of indigenous orphans in colonial India remains surprisingly understudied …”
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Land revenue, inequality, and development in colonial India (1880–1910) von Caum-Julio, Jordi

“… Abstract In my dissertation, I explore how colonial land institutions influenced both income inequality and the provision and funding of hospitals in colonial India …”
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Contagion and Enclaves: Tropical Medicine in Colonial India von Bhattacharya, Nandini

“… , civil lines and new urban centres for Europeans. Contagion and Enclaves studies the social history of medicine within two intersecting enclaves in colonial India …”
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Philosophy in colonial India von Deshpande, Sharad

“… This volume focuses on the gradual emergence of modern Indian philosophy through the cross-cultural encounter between indigenous Indian and Western traditions …”
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Community origins of industrial entrepreneurship in colonial India von Gupta, Bishnupriya, Mookherjee, Dilip, Munshi, Kaivan, Sanclemente, Mario

“… We provide evidence of the role of community networks in emergence of Indian entrepreneurship in early stages of cotton and jute textile industries in the late …”
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Useful & Reliable: Technological Transformation in Colonial India von Roy, Tirthankar

“… This article rejects such a theory on the evidence of colonial India. Indo-European contacts activated transfer, transplantation, and adaptation in URK …”
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Bacteriological research and 'puerperal' fever: female health and childbirth in late colonial India von Bajpayee, Kaushalya

“… This article explores female healthcare at the crossroads of bacteriology and obstetric research. Puerperal fever or childbed fever manifested as an epidemic …”
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