Chapter-1 (Revision Notes)
Sources for the History of Modern India
Archive materials-
- Central government–
- National Archives of India, located in New Delhi
- James Rennell as the first Surveyor General of Bengal in 1767
- State government-records comprise of
- Former British Indian provinces
- princely states which were incorporated in the Indian Union after 1947
- the foreign administrations
- Kingdom of Lahore popularly known as Khalsa Darbar
- Pre-British public archives in India is the Peshwa Daftar-maratha kingdom housed in the Alienation Office, Pune.
- Rajasthan State Archives at Bikaner-history of princely states
- the history of Dogra rule from 1846 in Jammu and Kashmir-housed at jammu
- Gwalior, Indore, Bhopal and Rewa, all archives in Madhya Pradesh,
- Travancore and Cochin in Kerala, Mysore in Karnataka and Kolhapur in Maharashtra.
- Three presidencies–
Archives of Bombay Presidency, housed in the Maharashtra Secretariat Record Office, Mumbai, are extremely useful in studying the history of Western India
- Other European rulers-
- Dutch records of Cochin and Malabar are in the Madras Record Office and those of Chinsura in the state archives of West Bengal
- The French archives of Chandernagore and Pondicherry (now Puducherry)
- were taken to Paris
- The archives of the Danish possessions were also transferred to Copenhagen when the Dutch sold Tranquebar and Serampore to the English East India Company in 1845.
- The remaining Danish records relating to Tranqueba housed in the Madras Record Office
- Judicial records-
- The records of the Mayor’s Court at Bombay established in 1728 are available in the Maharashtra Secretariat Record Office
- Published records-
- Private archives-
- Indian National Congress ‘s records are housed in the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in New Delhi
- Foreign repositories-
- The Archives Nationale, Paris, and the Archives of the French Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Colonies and War, have records that throw light on the history of French possessions
- The British Museum possesses collections of papers of British viceroys, secretaries of states and other high ranked civil and military officials who were posted in India
- The records of the Dutch East India Company is available in Rijksarchief, The Hague, and that of the Danish and Portuguese are kept in Copenhagen and Lisbon, respectively.
- Biographies,memoirs and travel accounts-
Abbe Dubois-Hindu Manners and Customs
British travellers
- James Burnes -Narrative of a Visit to the Court of Sinde
- Alexander Burnes -Travels Into Bokhara
- J.C. Davidson-Diary of the Travels and Adventures in Upper India
- John Butler -Travels and Adventures in the Province of Assam
Non-British travellers
- Victor Jacquemont-Letters from India describing a journey in the British Dominions of India, Tibet, Lahore and Cashmere during the years 1828-1829—1831
- Baron Charles -Travels in Kashmir and the Punjab
- Newspapers and journals-
- first newspaper in India entitled The Bengal Gazette or Calcutta General Advertiser Calcutta gazette-1784
- Madras courier-1788
- Bombay herald-1789
- The Hindu and Swadesamitran -G. Subramaniya Iyer,
- Kesari and Mahratta -Bal Gangadhar Tilak,
- Bengalee -Surendranath Banerjea
- Amrita Bazaar Patrika – Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh,
- Sudharak -Gopal Krishna Gokhale,
- Indian Mirror – N.N. Sen,
- Voice of India – Dadabhai Naoroji,
- Hindustan and Advocate – G.P. Varma.
- The Tribune and Akhbar-i-Am in Punjab,
- Indu Prakash, Dnyan Prakash, Kal and Gujarati in Bombay,
- Som Prakash Banganivasi and Sadharani in Bengal
- Indian nationalists and revolutionaries living abroad published newspapers and journals—
- Indian Sociologist (London, Shyamji Krishnavarma),
- Bande Matram (Paris, Madam Cama),
- Talwar (Berlin, Virendranath Chattopadhyay)
- Ghadar (San Francisco, Lala Hardayal)
- Oral evidence-
- Creative literature-
- Bankim Chandra Chatterji (1838-94)- Anand Math-sanyasi revolt of 1760 (1882),Rajasimha-his last work
- Icharam Suryaram Desai-Hind ane Britanica-gujarati
- Girija Devi and Ramatirtha Thammal, who wrote Mohanra Rajani (1931) and Dasikalin Mosa Valai (1936) respectively-tamil
- V. Krishna Rao’s Kilubommalu (The Puppets, 1956)-telugu
- Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1910-1994) -Balyakala Sakhi (The Childhood Friends,1944)
- Thakazhi Siva Sankara- Tottiyude Makan (Son of a Scavenger, 1948) and Chemmin (Shrimps, 1956)- malayalam
- Painting-
- Company Paintings, also referred as ‘Patna Kalam’
- Focused on street and bazar paintings shows british heroism and british sufferings in india.
- Relief of Lucknow, painted by Thomas Jones Barker in 1859
- In Memoriam by Joseph Noel Paton, recorded in painting two years of the revolt of 1857
- Kalighat painting fore in Calcutta
- Abaindranath tagore started Bengal school of painting
FORTS-
- FORT WILLIAMS-BENGAL
- FORT St. GEORGE-MADRAS
- FORT St. ANGELO-MALABAR
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