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The archives are generally sites where historians conduct research into our past. Seldom are they objects of research. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya traces the path that led to the creation of a central archive in India, from the setting up of the Imperial Record Department, the precursor of the National Archives of India, and the Indian Historical Records Commission, to the framing of archival policies and the change in those policies over the years. In the last two decades of colonial rule in India, there were anticipations of freedom in many areas of the public sphere. These were felt in the domain of archiving as well, chiefly in the form of reversal of earlier policies. From this perspective, Bhattacharya explores the relation between knowledge and power and discusses how the World Wars and the decline of Britain, among other factors, effected a transition from a Eurocentric and disparaging approach to India towards a more liberal and less ethnocentric one.
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This book, first published in 1926, is neither a catalogue of libraries and record offices, no is it a selection of transcripts from the English and Indian archives. The object of the undertaking is two-fold: in the first place, it aims at supplying a critical analysis of essential data for the study of seventeenth-century British India; in the second place, it aims at bringing within one purview all the materials lying scattered in various record offices. Every important document has been subjected to a close and careful scrutiny, and references have been given to printed works that throw further light on the subject.
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Index Chapter-1 : Sources for Studying Modern Indian History Chapter-2 : Different Perspectives on Modern Indian History Chapter-3 : Europeans Arrive in India (15th Century) Chapter-4 : India on the Brink of Colonial Rule Chapter-5 : Expansion and Consolidation of British Rule in India Chapter-6 : People's Resistance Against British Rule Before 1857 Chapter-7 : The Revolt of 1857 Chapter-8 : Characteristics of Socio-Religious Reform Movements in 19th Century India Chapter-9 : Socio-Cultural Reform Movements in India Chapter-10 : Emergence of Modern Nationalism in India Chapter-11 : Origins of the Indian National Congress Chapter-12 : Rise of Militant Nationalism (1905–1909) Chapter-13 : In...
This book offers a bird’s eye view of the economic and environmental history of the Indian peninsula during colonial era. It analyses the nature of colonial land revenue policy, commercialisation of forest resources, consequences of coffee plantations, intrusion into tribal private forests and tribal-controlled geographical regions, and disintegration of their socio-cultural, political, administrative and judicial systems during the British Raj. It explores the economic history of the region through regional and ‘non-market’ economies and addresses the issues concerning local communities. Comprehensive, systematic and rich in archival material, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers in history, especially those concerned with economic and environmental history.
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