Resonances of the Raj : India in the English musical imagination, 1897-1947 / by Ghuman, Nalini

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Last dance at Dum Dum / by Khan-Din, Ayub

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Winged stallions & wicked mares : horses in Indian myth and history / by Doniger, Wendy

Table of Contents: “…Equestrian Epics and Mythic Mares, 600 to 2000 CE -- 9. Horses of the British Raj, 1700 to 1900 CE -- 10. Horse Myths and Rituals in the Absence of Horses, 1800 to 2000 CE -- 11. …”
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England re-oriented : how Central and South Asian travelers imagined the West, 1750-1857 / by Garcia, Humberto, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Why Re-Orient? -- One. The British Raj's Mimic Men: historicizing genteel masculinities across empires -- Two. …”
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Winged stallions & wicked mares : horses in Indian myth and history / by Doniger, Wendy

Table of Contents: “…Equestrian Epics and Mythic Mares, 600 to 2000 CE -- 9. Horses of the British Raj, 1700 to 1900 CE -- 10. Horse Myths and Rituals in the Absence of Horses, 1800 to 2000 CE -- 11. …”
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Edward Elgar and his world /

Table of Contents: “…Thomson -- Elgar and the salons : the significance of a private musical world / Sophie Fuller -- Elgar and the British raj : can the Mughals march? / Nalini Ghuman -- Working the crowd : Elgar, class, and reformulations of popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century / Deborah Heckert -- Elgar's War requiem / Rachel Cowgill -- Transcending the enigmas of biography : the cultural context of Sir Edward Elgar's career / Leon Botstein.…”
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Edward Elgar and his world /

Table of Contents: “…Thomson -- Elgar and the salons : the significance of a private musical world / Sophie Fuller -- Elgar and the British raj : can the Mughals march? / Nalini Ghuman -- Working the crowd : Elgar, class, and reformulations of popular culture at the turn of the twentieth centruy / Deborah Heckert -- Elgar's War requiem / Rachel Cowgill -- Transcending the enigmas of biography : the cultural context of Sir Edward Elgar's career / Leon Botstein.…”
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An environmental history of India : from earliest times to the twenty-first century / by Fisher, Michael Herbert, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…aLocating and shaping India's physical environment and living populations -- Indus and Vedic relationships with Indian environments (c.3500 BCE-c.600BCE) -- The environment and forest-dweller, late Vedic, Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, and Dravidian cultures, societies, and states (c.600 BCE-c.800 CE) -- Insiders, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim immigrants, and the environment (c.700-c.1600) -- Mughal Empire (1526-1707) -- Mughal imperial fragmentation, regional state rise, popular environmental movements, and early British colonial policies and institutions (c.1700-1857) -- The British Raj, "Mahatma" Gandhi, and other anti-colonial movements (1857-1947) -- West and east Pakistan and India following Independence (1947-71) -- India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh from Stockholm to Rio (1971-92) -- India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh into the twenty-first century -- National, subcontinental, and global issues in South Asia.…”
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"Quit India" : the image of the Indian patriot on commercial British film and television, 1956-1985 / by Izhar, Dror

Table of Contents: “…British Empire films in the 1930s: contemporary views -- A prototype of the British empire film: Sanders of the river (1935) -- The British raj film: the final molding of the villainous Indian patriot in The drum (1938) -- Unfavorable British film criticism: objections to The drum and British capitulation to Indian pressure -- Conclusion: Later Indian and western commentaries on The drum, 1989-2000 -- An outlook on British empire films, 1956-60 -- "I tried to be an Indian": Bhowani Junction -- novel (1954) vs. movie (1956) -- North West frontier (1958) -- screenplay and reviews analysis -- The stranglers of Bombay (1960) -- screenplay and reviews analysis -- British empire files, 1967-1968 -- The Long duel (1967) -- Carry on -- up the Khyber (1968) -- The jewel in the crown (1983) -- screenplay analysis -- A passage to India (1985) -- Gandhi: his personality in the eyes of historigraphy -- Gandhi: analysis of firsthand sources, script and John Briley's article.…”
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British propaganda and wars of empire : influencing friend and foe 1900-2010 /

Table of Contents: “…British propaganda and the protection of empire in the Far East, 1933-1942 / Greg Kennedy -- Losing the game: propaganda and influence in the British Raj (1917-47) / Nick Lloyd -- Propaganda and counter-propaganda on the frontier 1937-1943 / Christian Tripodi -- Palestine 1945-1948: policy, propaganda and the limits of influence / Kate Utting -- Influence in British colonial Africa, 1943-1975 / Kate Law and Ashley Jackson -- "Two cheers for democracy": empire, cold war and british propaganda in egypt, 1945-1955 / James R. …”

A passage to India : notes / by Ostrander, Norma

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The Arab Gulf States : beyond oil and Islam / by Foley, Sean, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The emergence of the modern Gulf, 1930-1981. -- The British Raj in the Gulf -- The long road to sovereignty -- The Second Oil Era -- Conclusion -- Globalization, wars, and a telecommunications revolution. -- The Gulf in the 1980s -- Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait -- The War and Gulf society -- A new "old" order in the Gulf -- Political reform -- The Saudi Islamist challenge -- Satellite broadcasting -- The politics of socioeconomic limits -- Conclusion -- The twenty-first-century Gulf. -- Finding a new balance -- Security, reform, and succession -- A new boom and its consequences -- Conclusion -- When only women will work. -- Gender, the West, and the Gulf -- Women in Gulf history before 1930 -- The First Oil Era -- The Oil Boom and the resurgence of Islam, 1970-1980 -- A new Islamic course -- The limits of the Islamic facade -- Socioeconomic tensions in the 1990s -- Setting the agenda -- An alliance -- Are women in the solution? …”

Gladstone : Ireland and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Theodore Hoppen -- Gladstone's Irish Home Rule legacy: Philip Kerr and the making of the 1920 Government of Ireland Bill / Melanie Sayers -- From private visit to public opportunity: Gladstone's 1877 trip to Ireland / Keven McKenna -- 'Irish peers are deservedly unpopular': dealing with your father's faux pas within the nineteenth-century family / Devon McHugh -- 'This Proteus of politics': the Dublin Evening Mail on Gladstone, 1868-98 / Patrick Maume -- The Irish Times, southern Protestants and the memory of Gladstone, 1898-1938 / Eugenio Biagini -- A careful Hellenism and a reckless Roman-ness: the Gladstone-Disraeli rivalry in the context of classics / Quentin Broughall -- The religious dimension in Gladstone's Home Rule analysis / John-Paul McCarthy -- Gladstone and imperialism / Bernard Porter -- 'A most arduous but a most noble duty': Gladstone and the British Raj in India, 1868-98 / David Omissi -- Postscript: a statue of Gladstone for Dublin / Paula Murphy.…”

Constructing religious martyrdom : a cross-cultural study / by Soboslai, John, 1978-

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Globalization, nationalism and the text of Kichaka-Vadha : the first English translation of the Marathi anticolonial classic, with a historical analysis of theatre in British India... by Khāḍilakara, Kr̥ishṇājī Prabhākara, 1872-1948

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Waiting for Swaraj : inner lives of Indian Revolutionaries / by Vaidik, Aparna, 1975-

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The power of the Nath Yogis : yogic charisma, political influence and social authority /

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The first horseman : disease in human history / by Aberth, John, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…The impact of disease on native culture -- Disease and the birth of modern medicine : bubonic and pneumonic plague in India and China, 1896-1921 -- The plague breaks out in India -- The British Raj's response -- The black death and the Indian plague -- Evidence collection and analysis -- Initial colonial policy and native resistance -- New policies -- Lessons learned -- The plague breaks out in Manchuria --…”

Ages of gold / Meeting of two oceans / Freedom