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An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
Shashi Tharoor Reveals With Acuity, Impeccable Research, And Trademark Wit, Just How Disastrous British Rule Was For India. Besides Examining The Many Ways In Which The Colonizers Exploited India, Ran...ging From The Drain Of National Resources To Britain, The Destruction Of The Indian Textile, Steel-making And Shipping Industries, And The Negative Transformation Of Agriculture, He Demolishes The Arguments Of Western And Indian Apologists For Empire On The Supposed Benefits Of British Rule, Including Democracy And Political Freedom, The Rule Of Law, And The Railways. The Few Unarguable Benefits The English Language, Tea, And Cricket Were Never Actually Intended For The Benefit Of The Colonized But Introduced To Serve The Interests Of The Colonizers. Brilliantly Narrated And Passionately Argued, An Era Of Darkness Will Serve To Correct Many Misconceptions About One Of The Most Contested Periods Of Indian History.--publisher Description. Shashi Tharoor. Map On End Sheets. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 319-325) And Index.
The Jewel in the Crown
no Set Of Novels So Richly Recreates The Last Days Of India Under British Rule—two Nations Locked In An Imperial Embrace—as Paul Scott's Historical Tour De Force, The Raj Quartet. the Jewe...l In The Crown Opens In 1942 As The British Fear Both Japanese Invasion And Indian Demands For Independence. On The Night After The Indian Congress Party Votes To Support Ghandi, Riots Break Out And An Ambitious Police Sargeant Arrests A Young Indian For The Alleged Rape Of The Woman They Both Love. booknews Reprint Of The 1966 Edition Which Is Cited In As Part Of The . Annotation C. By Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Before the Rains
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History of Modern India
Bipan Chandra. Includes Index. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [335]-338).
A Division Of The Spoils
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The Raj Quartet
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Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India
In less that one hundred years, the British made themselves the masters of India. They ruled for another hundred, leaving behind the independent nations of India and Pakistan when they finally withdre...w in 1947. Both nations would owe much to the British Raj: under its rule, Indians learned to see themselves as Indians; its benefits included railways, roads, canals, schools, universities, hospitals, universal language and common law.None of this, however, was planned. After a series of emergencies in the eighteenth century transformed a business partnership-the East India Company-into the most formidable war machine in Asia, conquest gathered its own momentum. Fortunes grew, but, alongside them, Britons grew troubled by the despotism that had been created in their name. The result was the formation of a government that balanced firmness with benevolence, and had as its goal the advancement of India.But the Raj, outwardly so monolithic and magnificent, always rested precariously on the goodwill of Indians. In this remarkable exploration of British rule in India, Lawrence James chronicles the astonishing heroism that created it, the mixture of compromise and firmness that characterized it, and the twists and turns of the independence struggle that ended it. Karl E. Meyer James...has acquitted himself handsomely. His narrative is readable, his research wide-ranging and his judgments informed and tough-minded. -- The New York Times Book Review
The Rains Came
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Women of the Raj
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Plain Tales from the Raj
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