From source to sink: "official" and "improved" water in Delhi, 1868–1956 [0.03%]
从源头到水龙头：1868-1956年德里的“官方”与“改良”水源
Awadhendra Sharan
Awadhendra Sharan
This article examines the making of a modern colonial city through the rhetoric of ‘improvement’ and ‘progress’ in relation to water. The reference is to the history of water in the city of Delhi and what may be called ‘the first scien...
Of poisoners, tanners and the British Raj: redefining Chamar identity in colonial North India, 1850–90 [0.03%]
毒师、鞣革师与英属印度政权：殖民地北印度赤脚制鞋匠身份的重塑(1850-1890)
Saurabh Mishra
Saurabh Mishra
This article explores colonial representations of the crime of cattle poisoning and uses it as a starting point to investigate questions related to the formation of Chamar identity. Starting from the 1850s, it looks at the process whereby t...
Traditional vocations and modern professions among Tamil Brahmans in colonial and post-colonial south India [0.03%]
殖民时期和后殖民时期的泰米尔婆罗门的传统职业与现代职业
C J Fuller,Haripriya Narasimhan
C J Fuller
Since the nineteenth century, Tamil Brahmans have been very well represented in the educated professions, especially law and administration, medicine, engineering and nowadays, information technology. This is partly a continuation of the Br...
Satadru Sen
Satadru Sen
Land revenues, schools and literacy: a historical examination of public and private funding of education [0.03%]
土地收入、学校和识字率：教育的公共与私人融资的历史考察
Latika Chaudhary
Latika Chaudhary
Despite the centralised nature of the fiscal system in colonial India, public education expenditures varied dramatically across regions with the western and southern provinces spending three to four times as much as the eastern provinces. A...