Lahore in the Time of the Raj - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lahore in the Time of the Raj write by Ian Talbot. This book was released on 2016-12-21. Lahore in the Time of the Raj available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lahore during the Raj was a prosperous and cosmopolitan place, where many communities lived together and there was a constant flow of goods, people and ideas. In the Mughal era, the city’s strategic location at the junction of roads to Kabul, Multan, Kashmir and Delhi made it a seat of power, and poets, artists and traders flocked there for patronage from the royal court. The city expanded under the Sikhs as well, and with the annexation of Punjab by the British, Lahore entered a new phase. Lahore’s fabled Raj-era buildings—including the GPO, the High Court and the Museum—are widely acclaimed examples of colonial architecture. The British lived in Civil Lines, the Cantonment and the Mall; while in the 1920s, the prestigious Indian suburb of Model Town came up which, with its well-ordered streets, parks and bungalows, became a template for all subsequent residential colonies in the subcontinent. The 1930s and 1940s were a time of intense cultural and political creativity, and writers and artists flourished; F.C. College and Government College were celebrated centres of learning and there was great engagement between Lahore and the nascent Bollywood film industry, which the traumas of Partition ended. Memories of that glittering city still linger on both sides of the border.
Colonial Lahore
Colonial Lahore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Colonial Lahore write by Ian Talbot. This book was released on 2022-02-15. Colonial Lahore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A number of studies of colonial Lahore in recent years have explored such themes as the city's modernity, its cosmopolitanism and the rise of communalism which culminated in the bloodletting of 1947. This first synoptic history moves away from the prism of the Great Divide of 1947 to examine the cultural and social connections which linked colonial Lahore with North India and beyond. In contrast to portrayals of Lahore as inward looking and a world unto itself, the authors argue that imperial globalisation intensified long established exchanges of goods, people and ideas. Ian Talbot and Tahir Kamran's book is reflective of concerns arising from the global history of Empire and the new urban history of South Asia. These are addressed thematically rather than through a conventional chronological narrative, as the book uncovers previously neglected areas of Lahore's history, including the links between Lahore's and Bombay's early film industries and the impact on the 'tourist gaze' of the consumption of both text and visual representation of India in newsreels and photographs.
City of Lahore and British Raj in India
City of Lahore and British Raj in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook City of Lahore and British Raj in India write by Amna Jahangir. This book was released on 2009. City of Lahore and British Raj in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Raj, Lahore, and Bhai Ram Singh
The Raj, Lahore, and Bhai Ram Singh - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Raj, Lahore, and Bhai Ram Singh write by Pervaiz Vandal. This book was released on 2006. The Raj, Lahore, and Bhai Ram Singh available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ram Singh, 1858-1916, Indian architect.
Lahore
Lahore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lahore write by Manreet Sodhi Someshwar. This book was released on 2021-09-30. Lahore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the months leading up to Independence, in Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel are engaged in deliberations with British Viceroy Dickie Mountbatten over the fate of the country. In Lahore, Sepoy Malik returns home from the Great War hoping to win his sweetheart Tara's hand in marriage, only to find divide-and-rule holding sway, and love, friendships, and familial bonds being tested. Set in parallel threads across these two cities, Lahore is a behind-the-scenes look into the negotiations and the political skulduggery that gave India its freedom, the price for which was batwara. As the men make the decisions and wield the swords, the women bear the brunt of the carnage that tears through India in the sticky hot months of its cruellest summer ever. Backed by astute research, The Partition Trilogy captures the frenzy of Indian independence, the Partition and the accession of the states, and takes readers back to a time of great upheaval and churn.
