Two hundred years ago, India was seen as a place with little history and less culture. Today it is revered for a notable prehistory, a magnificent classical age and a cultural tradition unique in both character and continuity. How this extraordinary change in perception came about is the subject ...
The Great Arc is an account of the Trigonometric Survey of India, a mammoth exercise to survey and map the Indian sub-continent from Kanyakumari (then Cape Comorin) to Kashmir and from the Indus delta to Burma, an exercise that commenced in 1802 and was completed only in 1870.The book traces the ...
Going into my first visit to India, I realized that I had almost no knowledge of its history, so I was seeking a readable single volume that would bring me somewhat up to speed. I had followed a similar approach with Leonard Thompson's "A History of South Africa" and very much enjoyed it. While I...
The book is about East India Company it's origins and the story of it's transaction into one of the most powerful business empires of it's times. The initial history is lucidly explained in detail and is made interesting. The author has researched well and takes us step by step logically, histori...
They were used indiscriminately to describe anywhere east of the Cape and west of the Azores. Thus the Spice Islands might be regarded as part of ‘India’, and Goa as somewhere in the ‘Indies’. As seen from the crow’s nest of a European merchantman the south Asian subcontinent, like the Far East, ...
With it went responsibility for the Great Arc. At last the direction of the world’s longest meridional measurement was his; Greenwich would be proud of him. For the next twenty years George Everest would make the Great Arc his personal affair. At thirty-two, he was younger than Lambton had been w...
Revised and Updated 20Surgical Procedures1948-1965 WHO HAS NOT HEARD OF THE VALE OF CASHMERE?FOR THE NATIONS OF the Indian subcontinent, as for the rest of the colonial world, the twentieth century peaked at Independence. Triumph in the freedom struggle brought its expected rewards-self-determina...