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Author | : Trevor Royle |
Publisher | : John Murray Pubs Limited |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780719556869 |
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India's declaration of independance on 15 August 1947 was a momentous occasion. For the British, who had ruled there for over 200 years, it was the start of a process to discard its world empire. This text explores, through the voices and memories of both the British and Indians, the drama and tensions of the years leading up to, and following, Independance. The text combines historical narrative with these interviews and presents a social history and an insight into a significant period in British history.
Author | : Leonard Mosley |
Publisher | : London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
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Controversial account of the blunders during the year that ended British rule in India, 1946-1947.
Author | : Trevor Royle |
Publisher | : Michael Joseph |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mohammad Iqbal Chawla |
Publisher | : OUP Pakistan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-01-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199062751 |
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Wavell's era provides the backdrop for the finale which so historically, and tragically, unfolded under his successor and the last British viceroy, Mountbatten. No understanding of Mountbatten's era and the last days of the Raj in India could be complete without a deeper and proper understanding in all its complexities, of the Wavell's time as the second-last viceroy of India (October 1943-March 1947).
Author | : Lawrence James |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 2000-08-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312263829 |
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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 | : Byron Farwell |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393308020 |
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With a profusion of anecdotes conveying the character of India under British rule. Farwell offers a panoramic survey of the Indian army during the 90 years between the Sepoy Revolt and the births of independent India and Pakistan ...
Author | : Jeremy Bernstein |
Publisher | : Ivan R. Dee Publisher |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Warren Hastings, Britain's first governor-elect of India, was in the 18th century the person most responsible for the creation of British rule in India, according to the author. Hastings' eventual and dramatic impeachment forms the conclusion to Bernstein's unusual and powerful narrative. 12 illustrations.
Author | : Hugh Purcell |
Publisher | : History Press Limited |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : British |
ISBN | : 9780750947879 |
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In August 1947 the British ended the 'Raj' and left India. Some stayed on; others who had grown up in India shortly returned there. Over the next sixty years they adapted to modern India while always being conscious of their legacy, the inheritance of the Raj. This is the story of the very last of the stayers-on. Through their eyes we see how the legacy has withered over the years but, with their help, also how it has evolved in a new millennium: from post-imperial hangover to heritage industry; from the singing of Victorian hymns in neo-Gothic churches to a new Christian evangelism; from Shakespeare wallahs to multimedia English language teaching and call centres. Tea planter, missionary, tiger hunter turned conservationist, club manager, 'box-wallah', antiques dealer, single mother in the ghost town of McCluskiegunge - they all have remarkable stories to tell. And now there are fewer than a dozen of the stayers-on left. Hugh Purcell's After the Raj is the haunting, uplifting, unexpected story of the very last remnants of British India.
Author | : Jon Wilson |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 2016-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1610392949 |
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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 | : Barbara Cleverly |
Publisher | : Soho Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2011-08-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 161695003X |
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In a land of saffron sunsets and blazing summer heat, an Englishwoman has been found dead, her wrists slit, her body floating in a bathtub of blood and water. But is it suicide or murder? The case falls to Scotland Yard inspector Joe Sandilands, who survived the horror of the Western Front and has endured six sultry months in English-ruled Calcutta. Sandilands is ordered to investigate, and soon discovers that there have been other mysterious deaths, hearkening sinister ties to the present case. Now, as the sovereignty of Britain is in decline and an insurgent India is on the rise, Sandilands must navigate the treacherous corridors of political decorum to bring a cunning killer to justice, knowing the next victim is already marked to die.