England And India

Author : Shashi Tharoor
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0141987146

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Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor Pdf

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.

Author : William Digby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNB5QF

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India for the Indians by William Digby Pdf

Author : David Gilmour
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241004531

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The British in India by David Gilmour Pdf

The British in this book lived in India from shortly a er the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. Who were they? What drove these men and women to risk their lives on long voyages down the Atlantic and across the Indian Ocean or later via the Suez Canal? And when they got to India, what did they do and how did they live? This book explores the lives of the many different sorts of Briton who went to India: viceroys and offcials, soldiers and missionaries, planters and foresters, merchants, engineers, teachers and doctors. It evokes the three and a half centuries of their ambitions and experiences, together with the lives of their families, recording the diversity of their work and their leisure, and the complexity of their relationships with the peoples of India. It also describes the lives of many who did not t in with the usual image of the Raj: the tramps and rascals, the men who 'went native', the women who scorned the role of the traditional memsahib. David Gilmour has spent decades researching in archives, studying the papers of many people who have never been written about before, to create a magni cent tapestry of British life in India. is exceptional work of scholarly recovery portrays individuals with understanding and humour, and makes an original and engaging contribution to a long and important period of British and Indian history.

Author : Indian National Party
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UIUC:30112086400527

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British Rule in India Condemned by the British Themselves by Indian National Party Pdf

Author : J. Harris
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137090768

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Indography by J. Harris Pdf

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Europeans invented 'Indians' and populated the world with them. The global history of the term 'Indian' remains largely unwritten and this volume, taking its cue from Shakespeare, asks us to consider the proximities and distances between various early modern discourses of the Indian. Through new analysis of English travel writing, medical treatises, literature, and drama, contributors seek not just to recover unexpected counter-histories but to put pressure on the ways in which we understand race, foreign bodies, and identity in a globalizing age that has still not shed deeply ingrained imperialist habits of marking difference.

Author : David Gilmour
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374116859

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The British in India by David Gilmour Pdf

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 : James Mill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Hindus
ISBN : PRNC:32101075723815

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The History of British India by James Mill Pdf

Author : Indian Mohamedan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015063897113

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British India from Queen Elizabeth to Lord Reading by Indian Mohamedan Pdf

Author : Margot Finn,Kate Smith
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787350274

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The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 by Margot Finn,Kate Smith Pdf

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.

Author : James Mill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Hindus
ISBN : NYPL:33433082438023

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The History of British India by James Mill Pdf

Author : William Cooke Taylor
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : British
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Popular History of British India by William Cooke Taylor Pdf

Author : Lajpat Rai
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0469371358

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England's Debt to India: A Historical Narrative of Britain's Fiscal Policy in India by Lajpat Rai Pdf

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Author : Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : India
ISBN : NYPL:33433082438171

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The Rise of Our Indian Empire ... Being the History of British India, from Its Origin Till the Peace of 1783. Extracted from Lord Mahon's History of England by Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope Pdf

Author : Sir Percival Griffiths
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429614248

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The British Impact on India by Sir Percival Griffiths Pdf

First published in 1952, imperialism is a regularly recurring historical phenomenon, calling for neither approval not condemnation in the abstract. A more profitable exercise is to consider particular imperialisms and assess their spirit and their achievements. From this premise Sir Percival Griffiths proceeds to examine the political, administrative and economic effects on India of British rule. Formerly a member of the Indian Civil Service, later the leader of the British representatives in the Indian Legislative Assembly and now closely connected with commerce and industry in India and Pakistan, he has the advantage of a three-sided approach. He was, moreover, playing an active part in Indian public affairs throughout the years leading to the transfer of power. In 1942 he declared that he would fight any government which resiled from the promise of independence for India and when the Cabinet Mission visited India in 1947, it fell on him to assert - on behalf of the British community in India – their conviction that independence must be granted without further delay. It is because he has thus been a close eye-witness of the events of the last three decades in India that he has written this book. Although Western civilization is often regarded by Indians as materialistic, it is the spiritual rather than in the material sphere that British influence has been greatest. It has built up Indian nationalism; it has engendered in Indian minds a new concept of equality and of human rights; it has rekindled the scientific spirit; and is has profoundly modified the Indian intellectual approach to the problems in life. In all this there have been losses as well as gain – not least among the losses being the partial destruction of village corporate life and the spread of specticism among the intelligentsia – but there can be little doubt which way the balance lies. A further fifty years may have to elapse, Sir Percival suggests, before a final assessment of the impact of the British is possible. In the meantime the present book may be confidently recommended as the most authoritative and objective examination of the history and influence of British administration in Indian, which has yet appeared; a book, furthermore, that may be expected to achieve the status of a standard work.

Author : James Mill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015032015722

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The History of British India by James Mill Pdf