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Islands Under Siege
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Next Saturday is a big day in the history of this island at the
top of Lake Michigan, west of the Straits of Mackinac. In the past
125 years, it has been a Mormon agricultural kingdom, a flourishing
Irish fishing and lumbering community, a depressed area and, most
recently, a growing vacation and retirement center with severely
strained sewage and road facilities.
Next Saturday, it may get a focus on what the next phase in its
life will be. A big turnout is expected when the final version of
what is called the Wade-Trim Economic Development and Planning Report
is made public by the ...
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Public health in British India: A brief account of the history of medical services and disease prevention in colonial India.(CME)
Magazine article from: Indian Journal of Community Medicine
; ...Medical Services The history of western medicine in India dates back to 1600, when the first medical officers arrived in India along with the British East India Company's first fleet as ship's surgeons. In 1757...
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Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Geographical Review
; ...the very epitome of British rationality and science...intellectual superiority of the British over their Indian subjects...at the disposal of the British was such that they could...Board of Control of the East India Company, Everest and others...
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Secret Ciphers, Secret Knowledge: The Classics in British India, ca. 1800-1900.(Special Section: Victorian Secrets Selected papers from Victorians Institute, 2007)
Magazine article from: Victorian Newsletter
; ...eighteenth-century, such British scholars as Nathaniel...they became--from the British perspective at least...the curriculum of the East India Company's training College...knowledge at the disposal of British civil servants and soldiers...
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Ungoverned Imaginings: James Mill's 'The History of British India' and Orientalism.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...British cultural policy pursued in India. The Orientalist-Anglicist controversy of the 1830s in India among British policy-makers was essentially...intellectual movements and the East India Company. Majeed, for example, tries...
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A relationship, mood swings and all Patrick French assesses a lucid, if occasionally haphazard, guide to the uneasy history of the British in India
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...respect for the British, or for King...of northern India, the rise of...ascendant. The East India Company established...relations with India, with reciprocal...chilling words of a British soldier who...power of the East India Company...
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MUTINY! ; THE UPRISING THAT SHOOK THE WORLD ++ BengalIt's a century and a half since a revolt by soldiers in the army exploded into a bloody nationwide rebellion that nearly ended the British presence in India. It failed; but, argues William Dalrymple, the world is still feeling its effects today ++ Turning point in history
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...faith?" British men and women...sepoys of the East India Company's Bengal...against their British masters...East India Company was directly...Evangelical British officials...technology on India, but also...written by dying East India ...
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A Culinary History of the British in India.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; ...rightly called the Mrs. Beeton of India. But many were blamed for rejecting...maybe took some of these spices to India. Elizabethan diet rich in peppers supported the new East India Company in 1599 in its search for spies...
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The British army in India.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; ...by the British army in India. Three categories of British soldiers served in India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The East India Company, a commercial enterprise...subcontinent until the British government took control...
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Concession & repression: British Rule in India 1857-1919: Robert Carr assesses the nature of British rule in India during a key, transitional phase.(Talking Points)
Magazine article from: History Review
; ...Mutiny to Curzon Like much of British imperial expansion, taking formal control of India was not intentional. Instead when British lives and trading interests (represented by the East India Company) were threatened by violent...
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Racist Raj?(The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj)(Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750-1914)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Policy Review
; ...give a vivid picture of the British in India who, in their attempts to impose order...hundred Englishmen should dominate India." The British presence in India had begun when the Honorable East India Company established trading posts on the coasts...
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