Throughout the British Raj, colonisers built many clubs in India. These functioned as socialising areas for where they met, danced, listened to music, played polo/cricket, read newspapers and magazines, held conversa-tions. They were also race-selective; accepted particularly (and some of them Europeans, well) members or guests, excluded indigenous Indians. Moreover, had been instruments enforc...

This article reports primary archival data on the colonial penal history of British India and its reconfiguration into the postcolonial Indian state. It introduces criminologists to frameworks through which postcolonial scholars have sought to make sense of the continuities and discontinuities of rule across the colonial/postcolonial divide. The article examines the postcolonial life of one exa...

enteric fever is a most prominent cause of mortality among European soldiers in India. Taking the statistics of the five years, 1871?75, we find that, of an aggregate of 5,147 deaths, 466 or 9'05 per cent were due to this cause?the admissions per 1,000 of strength being 3-58 and deaths 1'59. In British Burma, in a garrison of 2,020 men, 27 cases and 8 deathg were returned under the head of typh...

In 1601, the British ship captain James Lancaster tested what was then a little known innovation in naval dietary practice when he set sail for India with a fleet of four ships. While the crew of three of his ships followed their usual diets, all of the men on the fourth were required to consume a teaspoon of lemon juice three times a day. The utility of this innovation was irrefutable. By half...

India is a rich site for studying intertextuality and influence due to its contemporary colonial history of postcolonial culture. British imperialism in was more pragmatic than other powers, being motivated by economics rather evangelism. During the emergence Orientalism, first nation have literary impact on West, but this equation reversed during intervention. While some critics denounce or ac...

the present article deals with britain’s competitions with russia aimed at controlling its policies in iran; for this purpose, we focus mostly on the developments at the last fifteen years of the 19th century. part of this period is concurrent with the administration of the british conservative party under the premiership of lord robert cecil salisbury in britain and sir henry drummond wolff’s ...

We study the implications of two historical institutions, direct British rule, and heterogeneous land tenure institutions implemented by British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using nightlights per capita as a proxy for income, we find that modern districts were historically under rule had 39.47% less 1993 relative to indirect rule. The large gap ...

This chapter traces how British and Dutch colonial officials gathered and organized knowledge on Islamic law in the British Straits Settlements (Penang, Malacca and Singapore) and the Netherlands Indies (present-day Indonesia) respectively. Despite clear differences between the legal systems and administrative structures of the two colonies, colonial authorities shared a considerable amount of ...

So much attention has been paid to milk lately in England as a cause ot disease, especial ljin connection with epidemic diarrhoea in children, that it may be considered an opportune moment to compare generally the conditions of milk supply in India and see how the conclusions reached at home may be applied to the latter. I refer here distinctly to the general conditions of milk supply in India,...