The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir
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Mountains, rivers, canals and crops share space with dynastic history in James McCrone Douie's account of northwestern India. The volume covers the Panjab, the North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and neighbouring states, bringing physical geography into the same frame as trade, education and government. Its contents move from climate, plants and animals to railways, agriculture, archaeology and district descriptions, with maps, illustrations and statistical tables supporting the survey.
Douie's administrative background shapes the book's perspective. In the historical excerpt, struggles over the Lahore court lead into the Sikh wars, British annexation and the organisation of provincial rule. Read today, the work offers a detailed view of how a colonial official assembled knowledge about a region. Its descriptions of people and its account of British authority also call for attention to the assumptions of that viewpoint.
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- Author
- James McCrone Douie
- Reading time
- About 6 hours
- Pages
- 295
- Language
- English
- Genre
- History
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