Texte remanié de: Thesis Ph. D.--Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India--Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar University, 2000. / Bibliogr. p. 174-176.

We all claim to ‘know’, in some manner, what a child is and what the term ‘child’ means. As adults we designate how and when children should develop and decide what is ‘good’ for them. Worries that childhood is ‘disappearing’ in the global North but not ‘developing’ sufficiently in the South propel broader discussions about what ‘normal’ development, individual and national, local and global, should mean. The child is also associated across artistic and cultural forms with innocence, immediacy, and simplicity: in short with our modern sense of ‘interiority’, as Carolyn Steedman has shown. The child is a figure of the self and the future that also connotes what is prior to ‘civilised’ society: the animal, the ‘primitive’ or simply the unknown. The child is, according to Jacqueline Rose, the means by which we work out our relationship to language and to the world and, as Chris Jenks expresses it, ‘the very index of civilization’. In this study I begin with the question that Karin Lesnik-Oberstein asks: ‘why is the child so often portrayed as ‘discovered’, rather than “invented” or “constructed”?’. I am concerned with how the child is implicated as ‘knowable’ and with asking what we may lose or gain by applying paradigms of childhood innocence or development to the nation as it is imagined in British and Indian literature at the ‘zenith’ of the British Raj. In order to unpick the knot of factors that link the child to the nation I combine cultural constructivist approaches to the child with the resources of postcolonial theory as it has addressed subalternity, hybridity and what Elleke Boehmer calls ‘nation narratives’. In the period that I concentrate on, the 1880s-1930s, British and Indian discourses rely upon the child as both an anchor and a jumping off point for narratives of self and nation, as displayed in the versatile and varied children and childhoods in the writers that I focus on: Rudyard Kipling, Flora Annie Steel and Mulk Raj Anand. Chapter 1 begins with what have been called sentimental portrayals of the child in Kipling’s early work before critiquing the notion that his ‘imperial boys’, Mowgli and Kim, are brokers of inter-cultural compromise that anticipate a postcolonial concern with hybridity. I argue that these boys figure colonial relations as complicated and compelling but are caught in a static spectacle of empire in which growing up is not a possibility. Chapter 2 turns to the work of Flora Annie Steel, a celebrated author in her time and, I argue, an impressive negotiator between the positions of the memsahib (thought of as both frivolous and under threat) and the woman writer determined to stake her claim to ‘knowledge’ of India across genres. From Steel’s domestic manual, The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook, to her ‘historical’ novel of the Indian Mutiny, the child both enables the British woman to define her importance to the nation and connotes a weakness against which the imperial feminist defines her active role. In Chapter 3 I discuss the work of Mulk Raj Anand, a ‘founding father’ of the Indian-English novel, who worked to unite his vision of an international humanism with the Gandhian ideal of a harmonious, spiritually inflected Indian nation. I look at Anand’s use of the child as an aesthetic position taken by the writer from the colonies in relation to the Bloomsbury avant-garde; a means of chronicling suffering and inequality and a resource for an idiosyncratic modernist method that has much to say to current theoretical concerns both with cosmopolitanism and materiality.

xi, 246 leaves : ill. ; 25 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.1975) from the Dept. of English, University of Adelaide

The Geological Survey of India (GSI) was a government institution that was created to map the geography and mineral resources of colonial India. British geologists Thomas Oldham and Valentine Ball used the GSI in order to affect policy changes regarding museum ownership, environmental conservation, and railroad construction. All of these policies were intended to impose order on the landscape and streamline the resource extraction process. Their goal was to enrich the British Empire. An Indian geologist named Pramatha Nath Bose, who also worked for the GSI for a time, also worked to enact policy changes regarding education and production. But instead of trying to make the British Empire stronger, he wanted to push it out of India. He left the GSI since he found it too restrictive, and, together with other Indians, restructured geological education at the university level and set up a successful steel manufacturing mill. Both the British geologists and Bose helped lay the economic foundation of India's independence. The GSI gave geologists power in some situations, but in others it restricted the advancement of the field.

Thesis advisor: Prasannan Parthasarathi / This dissertation is a study of state power, technological change, and class conflict at the port of colonial Calcutta. It explores the period between 1860 and 1910 in order to recast historical understandings of the relationship between the colonial state, science and technology, and labor. The dissertation explores a period of great change, resulting from massive increases in public investment. These investments transformed the port's infrastructure, making the loading and unloading of cargo ships significantly easier. They were also designed to secure the supply of cheap labor, and better supervise the port's labor force. The investments involved the deployment of new technologies and scientific knowledge. This included various new kinds of machinery, such as cranes and railroads that were designed to speed up the pace of work or occasionally to automate the loading and unloading of cargoes, as well as, the use of new medical knowledge to prevent the spread of disease. International trade benefited greatly from these investments, but their effects on labor were more complex. The new machinery made the work of loading and unloading easier, but also more dangerous. Moreover, many workers resented the enhanced supervision that they were subject to. In a bid to secure the supply of labor, the government authorities managing the port attempted to alter the existing casual hiring practices of the port with new hiring systems wherein laborers were locked into long term contracts with their employers. Many workers fought back through acts of everyday resistance and well organized strikes. They were most successful towards the turn of the century when a plague epidemic disrupted the supply of labor in Calcutta. While some workers fled the city, others fought for, and won higher wages. The state was also forced to invest in expensive automation and labor welfare projects in order to secure their workforce. The dissertation highlights the critical role of technology in the reshaping of labor relations in the British Raj. It also underscores the central importance of trade for the colonial state. Finally, the dissertation underscores the dialectic that characterized the relationship between labor and colonial capital. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2013. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: History.

The British Indian Army, formed from the old presidency armies of the East India Company in 1895, was one of the pillars upon which Britain’s world empire rested. While much has been written on the colonial and global campaigns fought by the Indian Army as a tool of imperial power, comparatively little has been written about the transition of the army from British to Indian control after the end of the Second World War. While independence meant the transition of the force from imperial rule to that of civilian oversight by India’s new national leadership, the Dominion of India inherited thousands of former colonial soldiers, including two generations of British and Indian officers indoctrinated in military and cultural practices developed in the United Kingdom, in colonial India and across the British Empire. The goal of this paper is to examine the legacy of the British Empire on the narrative, ethos, culture, tactics and strategies employed by the Indian Army after 1945, when the army began to transition from British to Indian rule, up to 1973 when the government of India reinstituted the imperial rank of Field Marshal. While other former imperial officers would continue to serve in the army up to the end of the 20th century, the first thirty years after independence were a formative period in the history of the Indian Army, that saw it fight four major wars and see the final departure of white British officers from its ranks. While it became during this time a truly national army, the years after independence were one in which its legacy as an arm of imperial power was debated, and eventually transformed into a key component of military identity in the post-colonial era.

This thesis is structured around the analysis of a model that describes the Cantonment, the Civil Lines, the Sadr Bazar and part of the Native City of the Western Indian settlement of Poona in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Magistro baigiamajame darbe analizuojama kultūrinio turizmo plėtra Ukmergės rajone, tiriama Ukmergės rajono turizmo infrastruktūra, kultūriniai ištekliai, jų panaudojimo galimybės kultūrinio turizmo vystymui, atliekamas Ukmergės rajono ir miesto gyventojų tyrimas apie kultūrinių išteklių patrauklumą ir jų panaudojimą kultūriniam turizmui vystyti. Baigiamojo darbo tikslas: nustatyti ir išanalizuoti kultūrinio turizmo plėtros galimybes Ukmergės rajone. Tikslui pasiekti buvo suformuoti uždaviniai: išanalizuoti kultūrinio turizmo teorinę sampratą; išnagrinėti šiuolaikinės turizmo plėtros teorijas ir modelius; ištirti ir nustatyti kultūrinio turizmo vystymą (si) Lietuvoje; išanalizuoti Ukmergės rajono turistinę infrastruktūrą ir kultūros paveldo objektus; atlikti kultūrinio turizmo plėtros galimybių tyrimą ir įvertinti kultūrinio turizmo plėtros galimybes Ukmergės rajone ir atlikto tyrimo rezultatų pagrindu pateikti rekomendacijas kultūrinio turizmo plėtrai Ukmergės rajone. Darbą sudaro trys dalys. Pirmojoje dalyje analizuojami kultūrinio turizmo teoriniai aspektai, aptariant kultūros ir turizmo definicijas, nagrinėjami turizmo plėtros teorijos ir modeliai, kultūrinis turizmas ir kultūrinė aplinka. Antroje dalyje aptariama tyrimo metodika ir tyrimo organizavimas. Trečiojoje dalyje atliekama Ukmergės rajono turistinių ir kultūrinių išteklių analizė bei jų pritaikymas kultūrinio turizmo plėtrai rajone. Atlikus tyrimą paaiškėjo, kad Ukmergės rajonas turi gausius kultūrinius... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Master work examines the cultural tourism development in Ukmerge district. It examines the tourism infrastructure of Ukmergė district, cultural resources and their potential for cultural tourism development . The investigation of Ukmerge district and its population is carried out in this work. It is about an attraction of the cultural resourses and their use for cultural tourism development. The final goal of the work is to identify and analyze the opportunities of cultural tourism development in Ukmerge district. The objectives are to analyse the theoretical concept of cultural tourism; to explore the theories and models of the modern tourism development; to investigate and determine the development of cultural tourism in Lithuania; to analyse a tourist infrastructure and the objects of the cultural heritage of Ukmerge area; to carry out the reseach about the facility of cultural tourism development and assess these facility in Ukmerge district; to make recommendations for cultural tourism developmentin Ukmerge area based on the survey’s results. The work consists of three parts. The first part analyses the theoretical aspects of cultural tourism, discussing the definitions of culture and tourism. The cultural development’s theory and models , cultural tourism and cultural environment are studied in this part. The second part discusses the methodology and organization of the research. The analysis of tourist and cultural resources and their application for... [to full text]

This thesis is structured around the analysis of a model that describes the Cantonment, the Civil Lines, the Sadr Bazar and part of the Native City of the Western Indian settlement of Poona in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Texas, Aug., 2009. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.