Strangers in the Land
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Strangers in the Land

The Rise and Decline of the British Indian Empire

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Strangers in the Land

The Rise and Decline of the British Indian Empire

About this book

The British in India, first as adventurers, then as traders and finally as rulers through the India Office in London and the Viceroy's Government in India, oversaw all aspects of Indian life - district administrations, law, police, army, trade, education and culture and relations with princely states and foreign powers. And yet a sense of alienation among the British always remained. The end came quickly with Indian independence in 1947, and the British left a bitterly divided sub-continent. This is not a blow-by-blow historical account but a narrative social and cultural history which explores the British-Indian relationship at all levels.

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Information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2002
Print ISBN
9781860647970
eBook ISBN
9780857717078
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Asian History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. CONTENTS
  3. MAPS
  4. ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. PREFACE
  6. 1. ‘TO AGRA AND LAHORE OF GREAT MOGUL’
  7. 2. ‘A FIELD LEFT OPEN FOR ADVENTURERS’
  8. 3. ‘THAT MAN NOT BORN FOR A DESK’
  9. 4. ‘THE MIND THAT GRASPS AT SUCH WEALTH MUST BE VICIOUS’
  10. 5. ‘A STORM OF UNIVERSAL FIRE’
  11. 6. ‘ENGLISH MAN, VERY GOOD MAN’
  12. 7. ‘WE MUST GO TO THE ORIENT’
  13. 8. ‘OUR EMPIRE SEEMS DESTINED TO BE SHORT-LIVED’
  14. 9.‘WHY … DEPRIVE ME OF MY POOR AND BARREN COUNTRY?’
  15. 10.‘EUROPEANS CANNOT RETREAT ’
  16. 11. ‘THE GREAT CHIEFS AND LANDOWNERS OF INDIA’
  17. 12. ‘WORTH THREE HUNDRED A YEAR, DEAD OR ALIVE’
  18. 13.‘WE ARE PLEDGED TO INDIA ’
  19. 14.‘MARCHING UP TO AN IMPOSSIBLE SOLUTION ’
  20. 15.‘CRUSHED BY ENGLISH POETRY ’
  21. NOTES
  22. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  23. GLOSSARY
  24. INDEX