I am still trying to get information of Donald Munro and his wife Isabella. I understand Donald Munro joined the 78th foot in June 1804. He was transferred to the 17th foot in December 1818 and died in Berampore in 1822. I have tried to get his personal details or service record but have been unsuccessful. I would appreciate any help or a link to data which is uncomplicated and easy to follow. Joyce Munro

G'day Harshawardhan, On 14/09/2010, at 2:33 PM, Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar wrote: > Hey, stop embarrassing me, you two. :-) > I have to echo what Gordon said! Don't worry. It was only an echo. ooroo

Not at all, it came from the heart from this person with grateful thanks. Sandra -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Feltham Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 11:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] currencies G'day Harshawardhan, On 14/09/2010, at 2:33 PM, Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar wrote: > Hey, stop embarrassing me, you two. :-) > I have to echo what Gordon said! Don't worry. It was only an echo. ooroo ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hey, stop embarrassing me, you two. :-) Thanks for the kind words. -- Harshawardhan ----- Original Message ----- From: "sandra carney" < I have to echo what Gordon said! Harshoo you are our walking encyclopedia - thanks a million for all you do. Sandra -----Original Message----- From:Gordon Barlow Harshawardhan, you are not only a gentleman and a scholar, but one who is amazingly generous with his time and effort. Even after our long acquaintance I am astonished that you are able to come up with such a wealth of information at such short notice. Caroline must surely be equally impressed. Thank you very much for the links, which will now occupy me for days! All the best to you. Gordon

Re the currency of the EIC: try these links = 1 Online old book - ''Useful tables, forming an appendix to the Journal of the Asiatic Society'' ... By James Prinsep, 1834. Its first part contains information about coins, weights, and measures of British India. http://tinyurl.com/392wopf or http://books.google.co.in/books?id=BTYGAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Prinsep%27s+Useful+Tables&source=bl&ots=DWb-LcyPee&sig=vRTd-ZN3LMh0R-Yd6PHkalGE8n4&hl=en&ei=CkaOTMTXOYW3cM69yMkE&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false 2 The East India Company outside India. [Text of] A talk given to the London Numismatic Club on 9th Sept. 1999 by John Roberts-Lewis. http://www.mernick.org.uk/lnc/talks/1999sep.htm 3 (United Kingdom of Sth. Britain, Britain, West Britain, & Nth. Britain) East India Co. Currency (1835) (United Kingdom of The Britains) East India Company Currency (1835) Presidency of Bengal, Presidency of Madras, & Presidency of Bombay Currency (1835) http://www.weights-and-measures.com/xeiccurrency.html 4 Book - The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660-1760, by K. N. Chaudhuri Reviewed at http://eh.net/node/2731 Hope this helps. --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Barlow" I have copied this message posted on the London-Companys (sic) List. Does any India-Raj lister know anything about this? In my ignorance I didn't know pagodas, ducats, etc were used in the Australian colonies. Very interesting. Gordon From: Caroline Gaden My questions relate to the East India Company in particular.... did they have a similar variety of currency in use.... if something was bought in India, what coinage would have been used? Was Sterling is use from the earliest days or would the local currency have been acceptable? Also what goods would the East Indiamen have carried out to India and what coinage would they have been sold for? Many thanks Caroline

I have to echo what Gordon said! Harshoo you are our walking encyclopedia - thanks a million for all you do. Sandra -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gordon Barlow Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 3:59 PM To: India List Cc: [email protected] Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] currencies Harshawardhan, you are not only a gentleman and a scholar, but one who is amazingly generous with his time and effort. Even after our long acquaintance I am astonished that you are able to come up with such a wealth of information at such short notice. Caroline must surely be equally impressed. Thank you very much for the links, which will now occupy me for days! All the best to you. Gordon Re the currency of the EIC: try these links: Harshawardhan ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Harshawardhan, you are not only a gentleman and a scholar, but one who is amazingly generous with his time and effort. Even after our long acquaintance I am astonished that you are able to come up with such a wealth of information at such short notice. Caroline must surely be equally impressed. Thank you very much for the links, which will now occupy me for days! All the best to you. Gordon Re the currency of the EIC: try these links: Harshawardhan

I am new to this list, and am hoping someone can help me find information on my gg grandfather. Family legend states that John WHITTAKER left Yorkshire, England around 1857 or 1858 and went to India where he was working on building a railway bridge, and was robbed and murdered by his servant during an uprising. At first we thought he died during the Indian Mutiny of 1857 / 1858, but then we discovered he was still alive and working until the mid 1860s. He was a joiner, cabinetmaker, builder by occupation and we found him working under contract to Lee, Watson & Aiton, and then Wythes & Jackson in the building of the Indian Railways. There is a book out about Building the Railways of the Raj where these companies are apparently mentioned, but the book is out of print and I am unable to find an affordable copy to purchase. I tried my local library, but they could not find a copy either. Then in Google Books we find him having felled a large quantity of trees for building of the railways, and unable to pay for them as he had declared bankruptcy. In England debtors who went bankrupt went to court and then to Debtor's Jail. Was this law the same in India? If so are there court records in India where one might find this information? There is a John WHITTAKER listed on FIBIS who died at age 37 on Sept. 17, 1865 of a disease of the brain. It states he died at York Cottage in Parell, Bombay, and was part of a company called Lawson and Whittaker Gasworks contractors. Further research has shown that this man was buried in Back Bay cemetery in Bombay. So, this could be our ancestor as the age is about right and the employment in India as a gas contractor is feasible, as he could likely have started back in business this time in gas works contracting after going bankrupt a couple of years earlier. I also read in Google Books that there was an English cemetery at Back Bay in Bombay which closed prior to 1889, although I couldn't find an exact date as to when it closed. If our John WHITTAKER is buried there I would like to find him. Are there any memorial inscriptions or is there burial information and / or death records for 1865 for this cemetery? He was Church of England when he lived in Yorkshire. Could there have been a newspaper story of his death? If so where else can I look? And lastly, he may have married in the early 1860s in India, but we have not as yet been able to confirm this. Any ideas or help would be so very much appreciated Marina Canada

Does anyone know of the role the CRB played in India during the British Raj era? <<< An official of the British Foreign Office once described the Commission for Relief in Belgium as a piratical state organized for benevolence. This description, however extravagant in certain particulars, has the virtue of suggesting the attributes of an organization without precedent in international relations. It is a fact that the Commission performed functions and enjoyed prerogatives which usually appertain to state rather than to private institutions. It had, for example, its own flag; it made contracts and informal treaties with belligerent governments; its ships were granted privileges accorded to no other flag; its representatives in regions of military occupation enjoyed powers and immunities of great significance. The Commission itself was neutral as between the opposing lines, but in the pursuit of its duties it waged frequent controversy with both belligerents, and it received aid and essential co-operation from both. Its contacts, however, were by no means restricted to the European scene of war; they extended westward to North and South America, southward to the tip of Africa, and eastward to India and Australasia. By virtue of these privileges, duties, and connections, the C.R.B. was in one sense an international public body under the patronage of diplomatic officers of the neutral states of the United States, Spain, and the Netherlands. Actually it was a private organization, without incorporation or well-defined legal status, to which the governments engaged in war on the western front entrusted responsibilities which no government or public body could discharge. The chairman of the Commission, Herbert Hoover, and those associated with him in its direction, were private citizens of the United States; they looked first to their countrymen for moral and material support; they received the valued counsel and co-operation of American diplomatic representatives in belligerent states; and the American people generally looked upon the C.R.B. as an American enterprise. The American Government, however, was in no sense responsible for the acts of the Commission, nor were the Spanish and Dutch Governments, nor the Governments of Belgium and France, of Great Britain and the British Dominions, whose citizens participated in varying degrees in the Commission's work. >>> Snipped from the Preface to the PUBLIC RELATIONS OF THE COMMISSION FOR RELIEF IN BELGIUM DOCUMENTS By GEORGE I. GAY Commission for Relief in Belgium with the collaboration of H. H. FISHER Stanford University IN TWO VOLUMES STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA 1929 Online at http://www.gwpda.org/wwi-www/CRB/CRB1-TC.htm --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

The other day I spent some time in an old cemetery attached to the St John's Church, Kannur, one of the earliest cemeteries in the erstwhile Malabar region, which came under British rule in 19792. Here is a brief note I wrote after the visit: The church and the attached cemetery are some four or five km away from the city center and one can reach there taking a bus that terminates at the Government hospital stop. Nearby is the St Anjelo's fort, a once Portuguese fort which me to British. Both church and the cemetery are in full use by the local parishioners and I saw a few dozen people, mainly women, there. The priest and some senior parishioners appeared keen on these assets of a historical nature, but they have no clue as to what is it they are holding. A sense of history is what they need; and the old colonial vs nationalist mindset must go. Some public campaigns to protect them as historical monuments is urgently called for. In Thalassery, the church and cemetery are now protected by the Government. Such attempts are now called for in the case of other churches and cemeteries in Malabar like this one. The cemetery is a sprawling one, may be ten or fifteen acres of land. It appears there were some 1500 to 2000 English burials there from early 19th century. But inside the cemetery, one cannot find many of these tombs any longer. Almost three fourths of the graveyard are now occupied by fresh graves dug in the past few decades. When I visited, there was no watchman and the old rusted gate was closed. But people have made a side-entry pathway for their use and we took the same route to get in. The thick growth had been cleared a few months back making an exploration possible.The past many months of rain has the soil smooth and slushy, and some grass and plants are so irritating to the skin that after after a few hours inside, we could see our exposed body parts swollen and itching. Luckily, we encountered no snakes though they told me they are in plenty there. It took me a long search to locate a few dozen English graves that still remain there. They are on the eastern and western extremities of the cemetery, where the growth is so intense as very few visitors go there. There was no way exploring the western part, close to the boundary wall. The foliage is so thick and huge that even a horse can remain hidden there. Then I took a turn to the left and came upon a number of 19th and early century graves, that mostly remain unattended. This part is more accessible because recently they had planted rubber there. I was looking for T H B Baber who died in Kannur in 1843, a person whose life is now part of popular movie in Malayalam. I could not find him, but cold read inscriptions on some others. Here are a few: James Herbert, Health Officer, 7th Aug 1889, 31st Oct. 1939. William Harvey Bowden Lt col, 29th Seringapatnam Infantry, formerly of the Scottish regiment, 13.9.1870, 4th(14th?), Dec. 1932. John Stewart, died 1930. Scotland? Capt Alexander Mc Lennon, Asiatic Steam Navigation Co, d. Dec 1922. Phyllis Margarett Fletcher, 1899, 28.7.1946. Lt William Hastings Sim, 43, Monmouthshire Light Infantry, 13 July 1851, 26th Oct. 1875. Herbert Powys Drummond, youngest and beloved son of Rev. James and Hon. Mary Drummond of Calby rectory, Liecestorshire, Feb 25th 1847, 15 Dec. 1877 aged 30. Perhaps there may be somebody here who are related to these people. That is why I thought I will put this information here. And I would love any information on the early history of this church and cemetery as I plan to write a note in the regional media on its historical significance. Any help is most welcome. Chekkutty/Malabar, India.

I have copied this message posted on the London-Companys (sic) List. Does any India-Raj lister know anything about this? In my ignorance I didn't know pagodas, ducats, etc were used in the Australian colonies. Very interesting. Gordon Message: 1 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:56:37 +1000 From: Caroline Gaden <[email protected]> Subject: [LONDON-COMPANYS] Currency for trading overseas To: [email protected] Hello Everyone I've been researching the monetary system in New South Wales from the arrival of the First Fleet and now have a better understanding of the mish-mash of various currencies in use eg Spanish dollars [minted in Mexico], rupee, mohur, pagoda, ducat, Johanna, promisary notes etc. In 1825 the British Government decreed that all 'colonies' should use the ? sterling as their basis but it took quite a while for this to take effect and the non-Sterling coins to disappear [about ten years in NSW]. My questions relate to the East India Company in particular.... did they have a similar variety of currency in use.... if something was bought in India, what coinage would have been used? Was Sterling is use from the earliest days or would the local currency have been acceptable? Also what goods would the East Indiamen have carried out to India and what coinage would they have been sold for? Many thanks Caroline

Just as a matter of interest: the widow of one of my great-uncles - she was a Branson of Bombay - married a Philip Harold Boosey. He was a professional actor with the Adelphi Theatre in London in 1890, stage-name Philip Cunningham. I read something somewhere to the effect that he was a member of the music- publishing family, but I know nothing about him or it. I do have some bare information about her Branson family, if anyone is interested. Gordon Following a recent post to the list regarding the song by Laurence Hope I offered to send scans of the Kashmiri Song - mentioned as "Pale Hands I Love beside the Shalimar... I have a Boosey & Co publication printed in 1903 called New Edition Ainslie.

Hi, I would appreciate a copy of this song and music. My Grandmother was born and brought up in Kashmir, Thanks, Karl Lobo ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, 11 September, 2010 12:30:42 PM Subject: INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ Digest, Vol 5, Issue 214 Note: Forwarded message is attached. Today's Topics:   1. Indian Love Lyrics - (Ainslie Pyne)   2. Re: A snippet.... (Ramanathan Muthaiah)   3. Off Topic? - Family History and John Lennon. (John Feltham) To contact the INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ list administrator, send an email to [email protected] To post a message to the INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ mailing list, send an email to [email protected] __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text.

From another List... Subject: The Aiyer Family What a beautiful piece on Globalisation - the Kargudi way..... This is written by Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyer, about himself. Published in The Times of India. In 1992, I wrote a book titled Towards Globalisation. I did not realise at the time that this was going to be the history of my family. Last week, we celebrated the wedding of my daughter, Pallavi. A brilliant student, she had won scholarships to Oxford University and the London School of Economics. In London, she met Julio, a young man from Spain. The two decided to take up jobs in Beijing, China. Last week, they came over from Beijing to Delhi to get married. The wedding guests included 70 friends from North America, Europe and China. That may sound totally global, but arguably my elder son Shekhar has gone further. He too won a scholarship to Oxford University, and then taught for a year at a school in Colombo. Next he went to Toronto, Canada, for higher studies. There he met a German girl, Franziska. They both got jobs with the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, USA. This meant that they constantly travelled on IMF business to disparate countries. Shekhar advised and went on missions to Sierra Leone, Seychelles, Kyrgyzstan and Laos. Franziska went to Rwanda, Tajikistan, and Russia. They interrupted these perambulations to get married in late 2003.My younger son, Rustam, is only 15. Presumably he will study in Australia, marry a Nigerian girl, and settle in Peru. Readers might think that my family was born and bred in a jet plane. The truth is more prosaic. Our ancestral home is Kargudi, a humble, obscure village in Tanjore district, Tamil Nadu. My earliest memories of it are as a house with no toilets, running water, or pukka road. When we visited, we disembarked from the train at Tanjore, and then travelled 45 minutes by bullock cart to reach the ancestral home. My father was one of six children, all of whom produced many children (I myself had three siblings)... So, two generations later, the size of the Kargudi extended family (including spouses) is over 200. Of these, only three still live in the village. The rest have moved across India and across the whole world, from China to Arabia to Europe to America. This one Kargudi house has already produced 50 American citizens. So, dismiss the mutterings of those who claim that globalisation means westernisation. It looks more like Aiyarisation, viewed from Kargudi. What does this imply for our sense of identity? I cannot speak for the whole Kargudi clan, which ranges from rigid Tamil Brahmins to beef-eating, pizza-guzzling, hip-hop dancers. But for me, the Aiyarisation of the world does not mean Aiyar domination. Nor does it mean Aiyar submergence in a global sea. It means acquiring multiple identities, and moving closer to the ideal of a brotherhood of all humanity. I remain quite at home sitting on the floor of the Kargudi house on a mat of reeds, eating from a banana leaf with my hands. I feel just as much at home eating noodles in China, steak in Spain, teriyaki in Japan and cous-cous in Morocco. I am a Kargudi villager, a Tamilian, a Delhi-wallah, an Indian, a Washington Redskins fan, and a citizen of the world, all at the same time and with no sense of tension or contradiction. When I see the Brihadeeswara Temple in Tanjore, my heart swells and I say to myself "This is mine." I feel exactly the same way when I see the Church of Bom Jesus in Goa, or the Jewish synagogue in Cochin, or the Siddi Sayed mosque in Ahmedabad: these too are mine. I have strolled so often through the Parks at Oxford University and along the canal in Washington, DC, that they feel part of me. As my family multiplies and intermarries, I hope one day to look at the Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona and Rhine river in Germany and think, "These too are mine." We Aiyars have taken a step toward the vision of John Lennon. Imagine there's no country. It isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for. And no religion too. My father's generation was the first to leave the village, and loosen its regional shackles. My father became a chartered accountant in Lahore, an uncle became a hotel manager in Karachi, and we had an aunt in Rangoon. My generation loosened the shackles of religion. My elder brother married a Sikh, my younger brother married a Christian, and I married a Parsi. The next generation has gone a step further, marrying across the globe. Globalisation for me is not just the movement of goods and capital, or even of Aiyars... It is a step towards Lennon's vision of no country. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope one day you'll join us. And the world will be one.

Greetings folks, Following a recent post to the list regarding the song by Laurence Hope I offered to send scans of the Kashmiri Song - mentioned as "Pale Hands I Love beside the Shalimar... I have a Boosey & Co publication printed in 1903 called New Edition Four Indian Love Lyrics from The Book of Poems entitled "The Garden of Kama"* by Laurence Hope, Set to Music by Amy Woodforde -Finden (*Kama The Indian Eros) No.1 The Temple Bells 11. Less than the dust 111.Kashmiri Song 1V. Till I wake. I do not wish to part with this album - it belonged to my late Grandfather, composer/musician James J. Stroud - The Kashmiri Song was a particular favourite of his. I am willing to send scans to any list member wanting a copy. This booklet is No. 1 for Contralto or Baritone - the other version I don't have is ... No. 2 is for Soprano or Tenor. also printed inside the cover.. "New edition, copyright 1903 by Boosey & Co. copyright renewed 1930 in USA by Boosey & Co Ltd. Email me off list for pdf copies. Cheers Ainslie.

Dear Mr.Peter Rogers, Thanks for your post. I recall reading this short note about Kiplings which may be of some relevance to this group: "Rudyard Kipling's source of information about Buddhist sculpture came from his father Lockwood Kipling who had been a curator of Lahore Museum." I extracted this tidbit from the book titled, "Colonial Archaeology in South Asia -- The Legacy of Sir Mortimer Wheeler" by Himanshu Prabha Ray, OUP, 2008. After a quick browsing of this book, I took some sketchy notes which are posted here: http://grazingthoughts.blogspot.com/2010/02/friday-tidbits.html -- regards Ramanathan On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Peter Rogers <[email protected]>wrote: > This evening while extracting "Indians" from the 1892 Kelly's Handbook of > Titled, Landed & Official ClassesI found this little item of history. > > Peter Rogers > ----------------------------------------------- > Kipling, Jolin Lockwood, C.I.E., son. of > late Rev. J. Kipling, Wesleyan min.; born. > 1837. Married . 1865, Alice, eld. dau. of late Rev. > G.B.Macdonald, Wesleyan min. Principal > of the Mayo School of Industrial Art and > Curator of the Lahore Museum from > 1875. Lahore, Punjab. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

This evening while extracting "Indians" from the 1892 Kelly's Handbook of Titled, Landed & Official ClassesI found this little item of history. Peter Rogers ----------------------------------------------- Kipling, Jolin Lockwood, C.I.E., son. of late Rev. J. Kipling, Wesleyan min.; born. 1837. Married . 1865, Alice, eld. dau. of late Rev. G.B.Macdonald, Wesleyan min. Principal of the Mayo School of Industrial Art and Curator of the Lahore Museum from 1875. Lahore, Punjab.

The very opposite in fact. Every man was a volunteer. In WW 2 India raised the largest all-volunteer force in history - 2.5 million men. Mandeep Bajwa Sent from my BlackBerry® on Reliance Mobile, India's No. 1 Network. Go for it! -----Original Message----- From: "Gordon Barlow" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 11:16:38 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Indian soldiers (WW 1) http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/book-claims-churchill-deliberately-millio ns-indians-starve-death/ I assume the Indian soldiers were all conscripted. Is that correct? Gordon War Graves Commission honours the fallen of India 06 September 2010 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Two-day conference on Exploring Empire: Sir Joseph Banks, India and the 'Great Pacific Ocean' - Science, Travel, Trade and Culture 1768-1820 Date - June 24-25, 2011 at Greenwich, London, UK From http://www.humanitiescentral.com/exploring-empire-sir-joseph-banks-india-%E2%80%98great-pacific-ocean%E2%80%99-%E2%80%93-science-travel-trade-culture-1768%E2%80%931820/ In 1768, Sir Joseph Banks sailed around the world with Cap­tain Cook and in doing so inau­gu­rated a new era in British explo­ration, empire and sci­ence. As a botanist, man of sci­ence, adviser of the monarch and of min­is­ters, and as Pres­i­dent of the Royal Soci­ety, Banks became a cen­tral fig­ure in the expan­sion in dis­cov­ery and set­tle­ment that took place in the Indo-Pacific region from 1768 to 1820. Through his cor­re­spon­dence with fel­low men of sci­ence and with gov­ern­ment agents, Banks pro­moted the exchange of knowl­edge about flora, fauna and human cul­tures new to Europeans. He was a prime mover in the devel­op­ment of nat­ural phi­los­o­phy, eth­nol­ogy, col­lect­ing and its global orga­ni­za­tion, travel and explo­ration, the pub­li­ca­tion and illus­tra­tion of nat­ural his­tory and other mis­sion find­ings, the devel­op­ment of knowl­edge within the eighteenth-century Repub­lic of Let­ters, impe­r­ial pol­icy mak­ing and the prac­ti­cal uses of sci­ence by the state. He planned, for instance, the col­o­niza­tion of Aus­tralia and shaped the exten­sion of British impe­r­ial influ­ence through India and Poly­ne­sia. His activ­i­ties brought Britons into con­tact with peo­ples, coun­tries, plants and ani­mals pre­vi­ously unknown to them, and this con­tact had major effects on indige­nous soci­eties and ecosys­tems. It also stim­u­lated major cul­tural inter­est at home, and this is appar­ent in the new, Roman­tic, turn in lit­er­a­ture and visual art, whether in Shelley's Franken­stein, Byron's The Island, Southey's The Curse of Kehama and in the paint­ings of Pacific mis­sion artists Hodges and Westall. The aim of this two-day con­fer­ence is to bring together schol­ars from dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines, e.g. his­to­ri­ans of sci­ence, eth­nol­o­gists, nat­ural his­to­ri­ans (botany & zool­ogy), cura­tors, muse­ol­o­gists, lit­er­ary crit­ics, geo­g­ra­phers, stu­dents of local his­tory, colo­nial crit­ics and oth­ers inter­ested in the cul­tures of late eigh­teenth and early nineteenth-century Britain, India and the Pacific. The con­fer­ence has as its cen­tre Sir Joseph Banks but it also aims more broadly to present crit­i­cal work in a range of areas. Sub­mis­sions for 20 minute papers are invited on such sub­jects as: a.. the his­tory of explo­ration and of colo­nial set­tle­ment e.g. in Aus­trala­sia, the South Pacific, India, the NW coast of Amer­ica, the Poles, and its impact in Britain itself on cul­ture and impe­r­ial pol­icy mak­ing and science b.. the devel­op­ment of colo­nial­ism as a sys­tem (for instance, the appli­ca­tion to a global net­work of forms of admin­is­tra­tion, con­trol and trade, eg the East India Company) c.. nav­i­ga­tional sci­ence, geog­ra­phy and car­tog­ra­phy eg. tech­ni­cal devel­op­ment and meth­ods, instru­ment mak­ers, time­keep­ers, maps and map­mak­ers, sur­veys and charts, growth of geo­graph­i­cal knowl­edge and mar­itime empire d.. the cul­tural impact of the explo­ration and set­tle­ment of previously-unknown regions (e.g. in ver­bal and visual rep­re­sen­ta­tions: art, the­atre, poetry and fic­tion, jour­nal­ism, travel writ­ing; and vis-à-vis Ori­en­tal­ism, Omai, Tahiti and India) e.. agri­cul­tural improve­ment at home and in the colonies (e.g. Cap­tain Bligh and the bread­fruit scheme, the import and export of crops and live­stock, the Royal Soci­ety of Arts) f.. nat­ural phi­los­o­phy in Britain and abroad (e.g. plant exchange, impe­r­ial botany, zoo­log­i­cal explo­ration and dis­cov­ery, geo­log­i­cal map­ping, nav­i­ga­tion, astron­omy, the Royal Soci­ety, Kew Gar­dens, Hooker) g.. col­lec­tions, e.g. of objects and obser­va­tions: the role of col­lec­tions, nat­ural his­tory, eth­no­log­i­cal, anthro­po­log­i­cal and doc­u­mented, their orga­ni­za­tion and inter­pre­ta­tion, and their role in knowledge-production and stag­ing empire h.. the late eighteenth-century gen­try as a class i.. local his­tory: the rela­tion­ship of anti­quar­ian study to the prac­tice of nat­ural phi­los­o­phy in the empire j.. the exchange and cul­tural mean­ings of tech­nolo­gies and objects Ple­nary speak­ers: Pro­fes­sor Simon Schaf­fer, Uni­ver­sity of Cam­bridge Dr Jeremy Coote, Pitt Rivers Museum, Uni­ver­sity of Oxford Con­venors: Neil Cham­bers, Sir Joseph Banks Archive, Not­ting­ham Trent Uni­ver­sity, Tim Ful­ford, Dept ELH, Not­ting­ham Trent Uni­ver­sity Con­fer­ence venue: National Mar­itime Museum, Green­wich, Lon­don, SE10 9NF Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be ccd both to [email protected] and [email protected], by 1 Novem­ber 2010. ----------------- --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/book-claims-churchill-deliberately-millio ns-indians-starve-death/ I assume the Indian soldiers were all conscripted. Is that correct? Gordon War Graves Commission honours the fallen of India 06 September 2010