Reptilia and Batrachia of British India

Public Health and Medicine in British India:

In the years between 1760 and 1860, India was the main focus of European colonial expansion. Under the auspices of the East India Company, the British annexed territory, first, in Bengal and southern India, and later in the north and west of the subcontinent. The north-eastern territories of Assam and Sikkim were also brought under British rule during the nineteenth century, together with what ...

Determinants of Primary Schooling in British India

This paper explores the provision of schooling in colonial India when British administrators dictated education policy. Although public and private funds were used to expand and improve the public education system, there were fewer than 3 primary schools for every 10 villages as late as 1911. To explore the impact of the funding system on the provision of schools, I empirically analyze the link...

The Sanitation of British Troops in India

Fauna of British India. Cestodes. Vol. I

After a full discussion of the many attempts that have been made in recent years to formulate a working classification of the Cestoda, the author of this book suggests still another. He divides the Class into tw? Orders, Cestodaria and Eucestoda, which has the merit of simplicity and consistency, in that it makes a clear division between the Monozootic and Polyzootic cestodes, and which consequ...

The British Impact on India, 1700–1900

The period 1700 to 1900 saw the beginnings, and the development, of the British Empire in India. Empire was not planned, at least not in the early stages. In a sense, it just happened. The first British in India came for trade, not territory; they were businessmen, not conquerors. It can be argued that they came from a culture that was inferior, and a political entity that was weaker, than that...