1600-1947, Anglo-Indian Legacy
Author | : Alfred D. F. Gabb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Anglo-Indians |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alfred D. F. Gabb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Anglo-Indians |
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Author | : Denis Judd |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780192803580 |
An authoritative and lively account of the long and controversial history of the British in India, from the foundation of the East India Company in 1600; to Ghandi's innovative leadership of the increasingly militant Indian Nationalist movement: and finally to Lord Mountbatten's 'swift surgeryof partition', leaving behind the Independent states of India and Pakistan.Against this epic backdrop, Judd explores the consequences of British control for both Indians and the British in India.What was the effect on their daily lives, and on the lives they were effectively controlling? Were the British intent on development or exploitation? Were they a 'civilizing'force? Easy answers are avoided, and difficult questions provoked in this fascinating book.
Author | : David Gilmour |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 641 |
Release | : 2018-11-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0374116857 |
An immersive portrait of the lives of the British in India, from the seventeenth century to Independence Who of the British went to India, and why? We know about Kipling and Forster, Orwell and Scott, but what of the youthful forestry official, the enterprising boxwallah, the fervid missionary? What motivated them to travel halfway around the globe, what lives did they lead when they got there, and what did they think about it all? Full of spirited, illuminating anecdotes drawn from long-forgotten memoirs, correspondence, and government documents, The British in India weaves a rich tapestry of the everyday experiences of the Britons who found themselves in “the jewel in the crown” of the British Empire. David Gilmour captures the substance and texture of their work, home, and social lives, and illustrates how these transformed across the several centuries of British presence and rule in the subcontinent, from the East India Company’s first trading station in 1615 to the twilight of the Raj and Partition and Independence in 1947. He takes us through remote hill stations, bustling coastal ports, opulent palaces, regimented cantonments, and dense jungles, revealing the country as seen through British eyes, and wittily reveling in all the particular concerns and contradictions that were a consequence of that limited perspective. The British in India is a breathtaking accomplishment, a vivid and balanced history written with brio, elegance, and erudition.
Author | : Christopher Clark |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 816 |
Release | : 2007-09-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 014190402X |
'Of the "Great Powers" that dominated Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Prussia is the only one to have vanished ... Iron Kingdom is not just good: it is everything a history book ought to be ... The nemesis of Prussia has cast such a long shadow that German historians have tiptoed around the subject. Thus it was left to an Englishman to write what is surely the best history of Prussia in any language' Sunday Telegraph
Author | : Lawrence James |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 2000-08-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312263829 |
From the critically acclaimed author of "The Rise and Fall of the British Empire" comes an unapologetic revisionist history of British rule in India. James recounts the twists and turns of imperialism and independence with a wealth of new material. 8-page photo insert.
Author | : Satoshi Mizutani |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2011-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199697701 |
A study of how the 'whiteness' of Europeans was constructed in the colonial situation, using British India of the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a case study.
Author | : Jon Wilson |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 2016-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1610392949 |
The popular image of the British Raj-an era of efficient but officious governors, sycophantic local functionaries, doting amahs, blisteringly hot days and torrid nights-chronicled by Forster and Kipling is a glamorous, nostalgic, but entirely fictitious. In this dramatic revisionist history, Jon Wilson upends the carefully sanitized image of unity, order, and success to reveal an empire rooted far more in violence than in virtue, far more in chaos than in control. Through the lives of administrators, soldiers, and subjects-both British and Indian-The Chaos of Empire traces Britain's imperial rule from the East India Company's first transactions in the 1600s to Indian Independence in 1947. The Raj was the most public demonstration of a state's ability to project power far from home, and its perceived success was used to justify interventions around the world in the years that followed. But the Raj's institutions-from law courts to railway lines-were designed to protect British power without benefiting the people they ruled. This self-serving and careless governance resulted in an impoverished people and a stifled society, not a glorious Indian empire. Jon Wilson's new portrait of a much-mythologized era finally and convincingly proves that the story of benign British triumph was a carefully concocted fiction, here thoroughly and totally debunked.
Author | : John Hurd II |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2012-08-03 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9004230033 |
This handbook provides an indispensable reference guide to most aspects of the history of India’s railways. The secondary literature is surveyed, primary sources identified, statistical and cartographic data discussed, and a massive bibliography made available.
Author | : Frank Desmond (pseud. [i.e. Mrs. H. Scott Smith.]) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : T. A. Heathcote |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2013-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783830646 |
T.A. Heathcotes study of the conflicts that established British rule in South Asia, and of the militarys position in the constitution of British India, is a classic work in the field. By placing these conflicts clearly in their local context, his account moves away from the Euro-centric approach of many writers on British imperial military history. It provides a greater understanding not only of the history of the British Indian Army but also of the Indian experience, which had such a formative an effect on the British Army itself. This new edition has been fully revised and given appropriate illustrations.