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Back of the book Decentring Empire
Britain, India
and the
Transcolonial World Decentring Empire brings
together 13 original essays by some of the leading scholars of British
imperialism, their contributions offered in honour of Thomas R. Metcalf, the
distinguished historian of colonial India. The essays range widely in scope,
moving in time from the mid-eighteen to the mid-twentieth century, in space
from India to Ireland and Australia and elsewhere across the imperial map, and
in topic from economic, political, and social to medical, legal, and cultural
concerns. Taken together, they demonstrate the analytical richness of current
scholarship on British colonialism in India and elsewhere and give fresh
insights into its role in the making of the modern world. This is history at
the cutting edge, an important contribution to the ongoing debate about empire
and its consequences.
Tenali Raman by Kavitha Mandana Tenali, it turns out, had a solution to every problem that befell the kingdom
— from the mundane to the bizarre: How do you carry a pot brimming with holy
water over hundreds of miles, without spilling a single drop? The king wants to
build a palace he has seen only in his dreams, how can he be stopped? And a man
is to be hanged for having a ‘bad-luck’ face, can Tenali prevent this? As
they exchange anecdotes about Tenali Raman, Sulekha and her friends also learn
more about the Vijayanagar empire, King Krishnadevaraya and what life was in
sixteenth-century south India. Wonderfully witty and bubbling over with fun
and facts, this book is not just about one of India’s sharpest minds, it is a
peep into a vibrant period in Indian history.
Borg versus McEnroe Borg
vesrsus McEnroe McEnroe
desperately seeking his first. From these two characters emerged an intense
professional rivalry which developed into a strong friendship. In Borg versus
McEnroe, Malcolm Folley explores the essence of their competitiveness,
encapsulated in the epic encounter of Wimbledon 1980. He interviews many of
the key characters involved including Connors, Fleming, McEnroe’s brother
Patrick and Borg’s ex-wife Mariana. In this defining moment in the careers of
both men, new light is cast on one of the greatest rivalries of sporting
history.
by Jaspreet Singh 17
Tomatoes is a series of linked stories that revolve around two Sikh boys
coming of age in an Indian Army camp in Kashmir. Each story takes a minor
character from the previous tale and builds a new tale, weaving a collective
portrait of the border community. In addition to the boys, Adi (a student of
gardens) and Arjun (a budding chemist), we meet a boatman’s daughter, a
celebrity cricket umpire and Parachute Aunty. From modern missiles to cricket
matches, from religious miracles to the sumptuous gardens of Shalimar and
Nishat, Singh treats beauty, politics, and religion in a gentle and humane
manner.
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This volume charts a new direction in the
study of British imperialism, its impact on India and other colonial
territories, and its influence in propelling the forces of globalisation.
Moving beyond the standard model of a bilateral circuit between imperial centre
and colonial periphery, it highlights instead the web of transcolonial and
transnational networks that spread across and beyond the empire, operating both
on its behalf and against its interests. It suggests that these networks worked
in effect to decentre empire, shaping the multidimensional contours of the
global modernity we contend with today.
Hampi, September 2005: A breathtaking landscape, the ruins of a
prosperous kingdom, and over cups of hot tea, two friends discover stories
about the world’s smartest jester — Tenali Raman.
Sulekha is studying in
Class V and has been allowed by her principal to accompany her mother to Hampi,
on the condition that she produces a full report about life in the Vijayanagar
empire on her return. In Hampi, Sulekha meets the cocky TJ, who claims to be a
descendant of one of Vijayanagar’s most famous citizens, Tenali Raman, and
together they start collecting stories about the jester and his kingdom.
Wimbledon,
July 5, 1980. Bjorn Borg is beating John McEnroe by two sets to one. The
players enter into the most dramatic tie-break in tennis history. With
exquisite play, Borg creates three championship points, only to squander each
one of them. McEnroe finally converts his seventh set point to take the match
into the decider. Borg is chasing a record-breaking fifth title.
17 Tomatoes