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The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain
by Nicholas B Dirks  Publisher Comments Many have told of the East India Companyandrsquo;s extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one...
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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 and...
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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 (Vintage)
by William Dalrymple Publisher Comments In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in history. The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came to the...
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Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
by Alex Von Tunzelmann Publisher Comments An extraordinary story of romance, history, and divided loyalties — set against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic events of the twentieth century. The stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, liberated 400 million people from the British...
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The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj
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...
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Shameful Flight (06 Edition)
by Wolpert Publisher Comments The fields of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and optimal shape design (OSD) have received considerable attention in the recent past, and are of practical importance for many engineering applications. The present book deals with shape optimization...
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Maharanis: A Family Saga of Four Queens
by Lucy Moore Publisher Comments Traces the story of three generations of Indian queens who defied centuries of tradition to follow their beliefs and ambitions, from the maharani Chimnabai's effective campaign for women's rights, to her daughter Indira's elopement after her scandalous...
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Sovereign Spheres: Princes, Education, and Empire in Colonial India
by Manu Bhagavan Publisher Comments Princely states were semi-autonomous territories that made up roughly 40 per cent of South Asia under British rule. This engaging study looks at educational reform in the context of debates on modernity and anti-colonial nationalism in the two leading...
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The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
by Yasmin Khan Publisher Comments The Partition of India in 1947 promised its people both political and religious freedom—through the liberation of India from British rule, and the creation of the Muslim state of Pakistan. Instead, the geographical divide brought displacement...
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The History of British India: A Chronology
by John F Riddick Publisher Comments This book is a history of British India from 1599 to 1947. It is divided into three parts addressing political history, topical studies, and a collection of four hundred biographies of noteworthy English men and women who played a role in the creation of...
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The Butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyer
by Nigel Collett Publisher Comments On 13 April 1919, General Reginald Dyer marched a squad of Indian soldiers into the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, and opened fire without warning on a crowd gathered to hear political speeches. This is an account of the massacre set in the context of a...
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Great Mutiny: India, 1857
by Christopher Hibbert Synopsis On a brutally hot day in May, 1857, the famous Sepoy Rebellion erupted, a mutiny by native troops that swept across northern India, weakened the British Raj, and set up future confrontations between India and Britain....
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From Contact To Conquest Transition To
by Margaret Frenz Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-202) and index....
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Raj the Making & Unmaking of British Ind
by Lawrence James Synopsis The story of how the British made themselves masters of India in under a hundred years, ruled it for a further hundred and then departed leaving the independent states of India and Pakistan behind. James argues that the arrangement was always extremely...
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In the Time of Trees and Sorrows: Nature, Power, and Memory in Rajasthan
by Ann Grodzins Gold Publisher Comments In the Time of Trees and Sorrows showcases peasants' memories of everyday life in North India under royal rule and their musings on the contrast between the old days and the unprecedented shifts that a half century of Indian Independence has wrought. It...
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Children of the Raj
by Vyvyen Brendon Publisher Comments Over the span of British rule in India, the children of the Raj numbered in the millions; yet their dramatic, often traumatic, stories have never been fully told. Drawing on memoirs, journals, and oral testimonies, Children of the Raj conjures up the...
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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...
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Rhetoric and Ritual in Colonial India
by Douglas E Haynes Synopsis This book explores the rhetoric and ritual of Indian elites undercolonialism, focusing on the city of Surat in the Bombay Presidency. It particularly examines how local elites appropriated and modified the liberal representative discourse of Britain and...
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Reversing the Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary, a Colonial Subject's Narrative of Imperial India
by Lloyd I Rudolph Publisher Comments Amar Singh, a Rajput nobleman and officer in the Indian Army, kept a diary for 44 years from 1898, when he was twenty, until his death in 1942. In it he writes about the Jodhpur court, the Imperial Cadet Corps, and the British Expeditionary Force in...
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Ideologies of the Raj
by Thomas R Metcalf Synopsis Thomas Metcalf's fascinating study examines the ways the British sought to legitimate their rule over India....
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