Author: Sir Harrington Verney LovettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Importance of a Clear Understanding of Britain's Work in India
Author: Sir Harrington Verney LovettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Importance of a Clear Understanding of Britain's Work in India
Author: Verney LovettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Periodical
Author: India and the Commonwealth 1885–1929
Author: S. R. MehrotraPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000510956
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The story of the transformation of the old British Empire into the modern Commonwealth had often been told from the point of view of Great Britain and the ‘white dominions’. No attempt had so far been made to describe the decisive role of India in the shaping of the multi-racial Commonwealth of today. Originally published in 1965, the main theme of this work by an Indian author is the growth of the idea of Commonwealth in India from 1885, the year in which the Indian National Congress was organized, to 1929, when Congress declared ‘complete independence’ to be its goal. What did the British Empire mean to early Indian nationalists? How did the ideal of self-government of India on the Dominion model grow? What was India’s continued association with the Commonwealth valued in India and in Britain? Answers to these and similar questions are attempted in this book. Despite its great importance, the role of India in the Commonwealth in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries had received little attention from scholars. Dr Mehrotra’s clear, incisive, informed and balanced study was therefore the more welcome, not only for its source, but because it lent a new dimension to our understanding of India’s part in defining and enlarging the idea of Commonwealth. It is an important contribution to Commonwealth and to modern Indian history.
Subject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years 1916-1920
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Inglorious Empire
Author: Shashi TharoorPublisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780141987149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Inglorious Empire' tells the real story of the British in India from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj, revealing how Britain's rise was built upon its plunder of India. In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation. British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor takes on and demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial "gift" - from the railways to the rule of law -was designed in Britain's interests alone. He goes on to show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India's deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile industry.
India at War
Author: Yasmin KhanPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199753490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
"First published in Great Britain in 2015 as The Raj at War by The Bodley Head"--Title page verso.
Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1694
Book Description
Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years ...
Author: British MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
Special Bibliographic Series
Author: US Army Military History Research CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description