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Author : Brian Stoddart
Publisher : Readworthy
ISBN 13 : 9350180413
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
Download or read book A People's Collector in the British Raj written by Brian Stoddart and published by Readworthy. This book was released on 2011 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Mill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of British India written by James Mill and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon Wilson
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610392949
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Chaos of Empire written by Jon Wilson and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Charles Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book Raj written by Charles Allen and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Is A Nostalgic And Affectionate Portrait, In Both Words And Pictures, Of Life In The Great Years Of The British Raj; Of The Men And Women Who Went Out To India, Generation After Generation, As Rulers And `Housemothers Of The Empire`.
Author : Shashi Tharoor
Publisher : Aleph Book Company
ISBN 13 : 9789383064656
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Era of Darkness written by Shashi Tharoor and published by Aleph Book Company. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few years later, the young and weakened Mughal emperor, Shah Alam II, was browbeaten into issuing an edict that replaced his own revenue officials with the Company s representatives. Over the next several decades, the East India Company, backed by the British government, extended its control over most of India
Author : Maya Jasanoff
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307425711
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book Edge of Empire written by Maya Jasanoff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers the extraordinary stories of collectors who lived on the frontiers of the British Empire in India and Egypt, tracing their exploits to tell an intimate history of imperialism. Jasanoff delves beneath the grand narratives of power, exploitation, and resistance to look at the British Empire through the eyes of the people caught up in it. Written and researched on four continents, Edge of Empire enters a world where people lived, loved, mingled, and identified with one another in ways richer and more complex than previous accounts have led us to believe were possible. And as this book demonstrates, traces of that world remain tangible—and topical—today. An innovative, persuasive, and provocative work of history.
Author : G. J. Bryant
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843838540
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Emergence of British Power in India, 1600-1784 written by G. J. Bryant and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empires have usually been founded by charismatic, egoistic warriors or power-hungry states and peoples, sometimes spurred on by a sense of religious mission. So how was it that the nineteenth-century British Indian Raj was so different? Arising, initially, from the militant policies and actions of a bunch of London merchants chartered as the English East India Company by Queen Elizabeth in 1600, for one hundred and fifty years they had generally pursued a peaceful and thereby profitable trade in the India, recognized by local Indian princes as mutually beneficial. Yet from the 1740s, Company men began to leave the counting house for the parade ground, fighting against the French and the Indian princes over the next forty years until they stood upon the threshold of succeeding the declining Mughul Empire as the next hegamon of India. This book roots its explanation of this phenomenon in the evidence of the words and thoughts of the major, and not-so major, players, as revealed in the rich archives of the early Raj. Public dispatches from the Company's servants in India to their masters in London contain elaborate justifications and records of debates in its councils for the policies (grand strategies) adopted to deal with the challenges created by the unstable political developments of the time. Thousands of surviving private letters between Britons in India and the homeland reveal powerful underlying currents of ambition, cupidity and jealousy and how they impacted on political manoeuvring and the development of policy at both ends. This book shows why the Company became involved in the military and political penetration of India and provides a political and military narrative of the Company's involvement in the wars with France and with several Indian powers. G. J. Bryant, who has a Ph.D. from King's College London, has written extensively on the British military experience in eighteenth-century India.
Author : Romesh Chunder Dutt
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415244930
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Economic History of India Under Early British Rule written by Romesh Chunder Dutt and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Karl Marx
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book Karl Marx on India written by Karl Marx and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margot Finn
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787350274
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)
Download or read book The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 written by Margot Finn and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule. From the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1857, objects, people and wealth flowed to Britain from Asia. As men in Company service increasingly shifted their activities from trade to military expansion and political administration, a new population of civil servants, army officers, surveyors and surgeons journeyed to India to make their fortunes. These Company men and their families acquired wealth, tastes and identities in India, which travelled home with them to Britain. Their stories, the biographies of their Indian possessions and the narratives of the stately homes in Britain that came to house them, frame our explorations of imperial culture and its British legacies.
