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Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India (Us) by Lawrence James Publisher Comments 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 withdrew in 1947. Both nations would owe much to the British... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Imperial Bodies: The Physical Experience of the Raj, c. 1800-1947 by E M Collingham Publisher Comments This innovative volume demonstrates that the body was central to the construction and maintenance of British authority in India. Imperial Bodies explores ways in which the transformation of the British presence in India between 1800 and 1947 involved and... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ruling Caste by David Gilmour Publisher Comments "[A] lavishly enjoyable book." --Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal Between 1837 and 1901, fewer than one thousand Britons at any one time managed an empire of 300 million people spread over the vast area that now includes India, Pakistan... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Peasant Pasts: History and Memory in Western India by Vinayak Chaturvedi Publisher Comments Peasant Pasts is an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to writing histories of peasant politics, nationalism, and colonialism. Vinayak Chaturvedi's analysis provides an important intervention in the social and cultural history of India by examining... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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What Life Was Like in the Jewel in the Crown: British India, Ad 1600-1905 by Time Life Publisher Comments Drawing on art, artifacts, and literature that was left behind, these richly illustrated volumes recount captivating tales of everyday life in long-ago vanished worlds.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism by Ashis Nandy Publisher Comments This study contends that modern colonialism is successful not only because the ruling country subjugates through superior technical and economic resources, but also because the rulers propagate cultural subservience of the subject people. Exploring the... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, 1932-1947 (Cambridge South Asian Studies) by Joya Chatterji Publisher Comments Whereas previous studies of the end of British rule in India have concentrated on the negotiations of the transfer of power at the all-India level or have considered the emergence of separatist politics amongst India's Muslim minorities, this study... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
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Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire by Alex Von Tunzelmann Publisher Comments At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the British Empire withdrew from India, inviting in all the exhilaration and turmoil of a newly free society. In this vivid, atmospheric popular history, Alex von Tunzelmann chronicles these times through... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Princely States of India: A Guide to Chronology and Rulers by David Henige Publisher Comments In providing a carefully assembled chronology of the 290 most significant of the 600 states in India, the author provides new research for all scholars of South Asia, as well as Sikkim and the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, in the colonial period.... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire by Alex Von Tunzelmann Publisher Comments At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the British Empire withdrew from India, inviting in all the exhilaration and turmoil of a newly free society. In this vivid, atmospheric popular history, Alex von Tunzelmann chronicles these times through... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Maharanis: The Extraordinary Tale of Four Indian Queens and Their Journey from Purdah to Parliament by Lucy Moore Publisher Comments Here is a rare glimpse behind purdahs curtain into the lives of four brilliant maharanis-the wives of Maharajas-who helped shepherd princely India into the twentieth century. Tracing the lives of these influential women from the final days of the raj... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Churchill's Secret War (11 Edition) by Madhusree Mukerjee Publisher Comments Winston Churchill, hero to the Western world, also had a dark side. Between 1939 and 1944, while he was brilliantly opposing the genocidal barbarism of the Nazis, Churchill made a series of decisions that directly—and knowingly—resulted in the... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India by Lawrence James Publisher Comments 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 withdrew in 1947. Both nations would owe much to the British... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Imperial Divas: The Vicereines of India by Penny Beaumont Publisher Comments In 1858 the entire landmass of India came under the direct control of the British Crown. To reflect the status of the role of the governor general as a representative of the monarch to the feudal rulers of the princely states, the term Viceroy was... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mutiny and Insurgency in India 1857-58: The British Army in a Bloody Civil War by Tony A Heathcote Synopsis The events of 1857 to 1859 were tragic and momentous. The challenge to British colonial rule was on an unprecedented scale. This book places these grim events into their historical, political and economic contexts. The author's use of sources including... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India by William Dalrymple Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-448) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Nchi II.1: Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire (New Cambridge History of India) by C A Bayly Publisher Comments This volume reassesses the role of Indians in the politics and economics of early colonialism.... (read more) List Price $127.25 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India by Stanley Wolpert Publisher Comments Britain's precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947--condemned as a shameful flight by Winston Churchill--had a truly catastrophic effect on South Asia, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead in its wake and creating a legacy of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II by Madhusree Mukerjee Publisher Comments A dogged enemy of Hitler, resolute ally of the Americans, and inspiring leader through World War II, Winston Churchill is venerated as one of the truly great statesmen of the last century. But while he has been widely extolled for his achievements, parts... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power by Pamela Mountbatten Publisher Comments In March 1947 Lord Louis Mountbatten became the last Viceroy of India, with the mandate to hand over "the jewel in the crown" of the British Empire within one year. Mountbatten worked with various leaders to devise a plan for partitioning the empire into... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Trade Paper
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