Indian Society And The Making Of The British Empire
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Author | : C. A. Bayly |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521386500 |
This volume reassesses the role of Indians in the politics and economics of early colonialism.
Author | : Christopher Alan Bayly |
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Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : India |
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Author | : Christopher Alan Bayly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9780511096921 |
This volume reassesses the role of Indians in the politics and economics of early colonialism.
Author | : Christopher A. Bayly |
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Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1990 |
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Author | : Robert Travers |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2007-04-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139464167 |
Robert Travers' analysis of British conquests in late eighteenth-century India shows how new ideas were formulated about the construction of empire. After the British East India Company conquered the vast province of Bengal, Britons confronted the apparent anomaly of a European trading company acting as an Indian ruler. Responding to a prolonged crisis of imperial legitimacy, British officials in Bengal tried to build their authority on the basis of an 'ancient constitution', supposedly discovered among the remnants of the declining Mughal Empire. In the search for an indigenous constitution, British political concepts were redeployed and redefined on the Indian frontier of empire, while stereotypes about 'oriental despotism' were challenged by the encounter with sophisticated Indian state forms. This highly original book uncovers a forgotten style of imperial state-building based on constitutional restoration, and in the process opens up new points of connection between British, imperial and South Asian history.
Author | : C. A. Bayly |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1988-05-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521310543 |
Widely acclaimed when it first appeared in hard covers, Dr Bayly's authoritative study traces the evolution of North Indian towns and merchant communities from the decline of Mughal dominion to the consolidation of mature Victorian empire following the 'mutiny' of 1857. The first section of the book looks at the response of the inhabitants of the Ganges Valley to the 'Time of Troubles' in the eighteenth century. The second section shows how the incoming British, were themselves constrained to build their new empire on this resilient network of towns, rural bazaars and merchant communities; and how in turn colonial trade and administration were moulded by indigenous forms of commerce and politics. The third section focuses on the social history of the towns under early colonial rule and includes an analysis of the culture and business methods of the Indian merchant family. It is based in part on the private records and histories of the business people themselves.
Author | : Ronald Hyam |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 575 |
Release | : 2010-05-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521115221 |
A study of key themes in the history of the British Empire by one of the senior figures in the field.
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.
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.