The History of British India
Author | : James Mill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : Hindus |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James Mill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : Hindus |
ISBN | : |
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 | : 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 | : James Mill |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 2010-12-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108022774 |
James Mill's often harshly critical History of British India is a classic example of early-nineteenth century philosophical political history.
Author | : James Mill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 1817 |
Genre | : Hindus |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sir Shafaʼat Ahmad Khan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Archives |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Matthew H. Edney |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2009-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226184862 |
In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain used modern survey techniques to not only create and define the spatial image of its Empire, but also to legitimate its colonialist activities. "There is much to be praised in this book. It is an excellent history of how India came to be painted red in the nineteenth century. But more importantly, Mapping an Empire sets a new standard for books that examine a fundamental problem in the history of European imperialism."—D. Graham Burnett, Times Literary Supplement "Mapping an Empire is undoubtedly a major contribution to the rapidly growing literature on science and empire, and a work which deserves to stimulate a great deal of fresh thinking and informed research."—David Arnold, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History "This case study offers broadly applicable insights into the relationship between ideology, technology and politics. . . . Carefully read, this is a tale of irony about wishful thinking and the limits of knowledge."—Publishers Weekly
Author | : James Mill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1858 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John F. Riddick |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : British |
ISBN | : 9780313322808 |
This volume includes topical studies, biographies, and political history of British India from 1599-1947.
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.