People's Archive of Rural India - Library
The CounterMedia Trust
The PARI Library brings reports and information on rural India to a single location for students, researchers and other readers. It includes official as well as independent reports, out-of-print books, rare documents and reviewed research articles.
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 1913 English
This report on the Census of India, 1911 – the fourth general census – was prepared by Edward Albert Gait, an administrator in the Indian Civil Service and a fellow …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 1913 English
The Census of India, 1911 – the fourth general census – was prepared by Edward Albert Gait, an administrator in the Indian Civil Service and a fellow of the Royal …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 1910
Before Independence, British administrators in India published imperial district gazetteers, including those for Angul, Balasore, Cuttack, Koraput, Puri and the ‘Feudatory States of Orissa’. This gazetteer, published in 1910, describes …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 1907
This gazetteer, published in 1907, describes various aspects of Odisha’s Baleswar (or Orissa’s Balasore in British times) district. It surveys the district’s economy, society, politics and administrative setup, as well …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 1903 English
The Report on the Census of India, 1901, was written by Herbert Hope Risley and Edward Albert Gait, both British colonial administrators. The census presented an overview of British India’s …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 4 February 1897 English
The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, aims to provide for the prevention of the spread of ‘Dangerous Epidemic Diseases’. This 773-word legislation was adopted when India was under British rule, in …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 10 July 1893 English
The 1891 Census was conducted under the supervision of Jervoise Athelstane Baines, then the census commissioner of British India. Baines joined the Indian Civil Service in 1870 and was the …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 1887 English
Pundita Ramabai’s landmark book The High Caste Hindu Woman, was published by J. B. Rodgers Printing Co., Philadelphia, in 1887. It has an introduction by Rachel L. Bodley (Dean of …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 13 March 1881 English
“Without education wisdom was lost; without wisdom morals were lost; without morals development was lost; without development wealth was lost; without wealth the Shudras were ruined; so much has happened …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 17 February 1881 English
This report on the 1881 census of British India says that it was “the first synchronous enumeration attempted for all of India.” A previous census had been conducted for the …