Strangers in the Land

The Rise and Decline of the British Indian Empire

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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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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Utgivningsdatum2021-01-28
Mått156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt422 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor312
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350179974

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List of maps – viList of illustrations – viiMaps – viiiPreface – xv1. ‘To Agra and Lahore of Great Mogul’ – 12. ‘A Field Left Open for Adventurers’ – 163. ‘That Man not Born for a Desk’ – 314. ‘The Mind that Grasps at Such Inordinate Wealth Must be Vicious’ – 465. ‘A Storm of Universal Fire’ – 596. ‘English Man, Very Good Man’ – 737. ‘We Must Go to the Orient’ – 918. ‘Our Empire Seems Destined to be Short-Lived’ – 1089. ‘Why… Deprive Me of My Poor and Barren Country?’ – 12510. ‘Europeans Cannot Retreat’ – 14011. ‘The Great Chiefs and Landowners of India’ – 15412. ‘Worth Three Hundred a Year, Dead or Alive’ – 16713. ‘We Are Pledged to India’ – 18714. ‘Marching up to an Impossible Solution’ – 20115. ‘Crushed by English Poetry’ – 219Notes – 229Bibliography – 256Glossary – 263Index – 267