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MILITARY GEOGRAPHY AND TRANSFORMATIONAL TRAJECTORY OF THE PUNJAB 1849 to1947 AN APPRAISAL

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Title MILITARY GEOGRAPHY AND TRANSFORMATIONAL TRAJECTORY OF THE PUNJAB 1849 to1947 AN APPRAISAL
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Contributor Singh,Kiran Kumari
 
Subject Military geography, transformation, great game, garrison-state, cantonment, Rawalpindi, Ambala, urbanization, canal colonies.
 
Description This study investigated how the making of modern Punjab, its political
newlineconfigurations, social relations, and economic lives were affected by military
newlinegeography and shaped by ethos of militarism and militarization instituted by the
newlineBritish Indian Empire. Military geography of Punjab and its effects on the lives of the
newlinepeople and landscape was under researched in the history of Punjab s human
newlinegeography and even in urban studies and sociology of change. In such a context,
newlinethe proposed study is a significant attempts to unravel the role of militarism, military
newlineactivities and related developments in shaping the colonial times and spaces.
newlineThough it looks at the specific military history of Punjab in this connection, which in
newlineitself would be a significant contribution, at a larger level the work will emphasise on
newlinethe colonial military history of British India and consequent transformations driven
newlineby military geography with a considered position that the whole Indian sub-continent
newlinedid not follow a single and pre-determined historical trajectory in this regard.
newlineThe original contribution of this work lies particularly in the arrangement and
newlinemanifestation of cartographic presentations and historical accounts in context to
newlinemilitary activities. It also gives a new background to the ways through which military
newlinegeography can be defined. The definition has moved on just from the effect of
newlinev
newlinegeography on military activities and militarism to the ways in which military activities
newlineare geographically constituted to the proclamation of space and power . This work
newlineis integrative and based on the appraisal of the background of conversion of Punjab
newlineinto garrison state and the observation effect of military activities on the landscape.
newlineThose landscapes are selected, mapped, interpreted and contextualised for detailed
newlinestudy. It gives the expression of reality of the impact of military activities on social,
newlineeconomic and spatial sphere. While transformation of selected cantonment towns
newlineare examined in two chapters to decipher this
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Date 2018-10-16T06:47:29Z
2018-10-16T06:47:29Z
12/12/2012
17/07/2018
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Type Ph.D.
 
Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10603/218678
 
Language English
 
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DVD
 
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Publisher Bathinda
Central University of Punjab
Department of South and Central Asian Studies
 
Source University