Author : Lionel Knight
Release : 2012-11-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 270/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis Britain in India, 18581947 by : Lionel Knight
Download or read book Britain in India, 18581947 written by Lionel Knight. This book was released on 2012-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Britain in India, 1858–1947’ seeks to trace the last 90 years of British rule in the light of modern historical debates. The volume examines the ambiguities of British rule that followed from the post-Mutiny settlement: the tensions between an authoritarian bureaucracy and the promise of a liberal vision of the future, and between imperial interests and the growing coordination of Indian aspirations for self-rule. The volume analyses these tensions with reference to contemporary historical debates, and traces them through changing international relations and world wars to Indian independence and partition in 1947.