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The China Relief Expedition, an eight-nation military effort, was organized to rescue foreign nationals in the country during the Boxer Uprising (1899–1901). In Thirteen Months in China, Thakur Gadadhar Singh, a British Indian soldier of the 7th Rajput Regiment, recounts his experiences as he set sail along with his men for Beijing in the summer of 1900. Written shortly after his return to India in 1901, he details several aspects of China and its people he ...
In a richly textured work, Anand Yang offers a social, cultural, and economic history of markets in India's north eastern state of Bihar during the colonial period of 1765 to 1947. Using the bazaar as his site of investigation, Yang poses fundamental questions about an indigenous society under colonialism and sheds light on a neglected facet of Indian culture. Bazaar India reconstructs the dynamics of Bihar's marketing system, from the markets and trade systems ...