Roderick Cavaliero

Strangers in the Land

The Rise and Decline of the British Indian Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

The British in India, first as adventurers, then as traders and finally as rulers through the India Office in London and the Viceroy's Government in India, oversaw all aspects of Indian life - district administrations, law, police, army, trade, education and culture and relations with princely states and foreign powers. And yet a sense of alienation among the British always remained. The end came quickly with Indian independence in 1947, and the British left a bitterly divided sub-continent. This is not a blow-by-blow historical account but a narrative social and cultural history which explores the British-Indian relationship at all levels.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9781350179974
• ISBN-10: 1350179973
• Artikelnr.: 60329475

Autorenporträt

Roderick Cavaliero is a writer and historian whose interests range hugely and reflect a distinguished professional life. After reading history at Oxford he taught in Malta, and later joined the British Council, serving successively in New Delhi, Rio de Janeiro, London and Rome, becoming Deputy Director-General. He has since been chairman of the Management Committee of the British School in Rome and Trustee of the Keats-Shelley Memorial House, and of the Charles Wallace India Trust. Italia Romantica is based on his intimate knowledge of Italy's history and the role of romantic literature.

Inhaltsangabe

List of maps
vi List of illustrations
vii Maps
viii Preface
xv 1. 'To Agra and Lahore of Great Mogul'
1 2. 'A Field Left Open for Adventurers'
16 3. 'That Man not Born for a Desk'
31 4. 'The Mind that Grasps at Such Inordinate Wealth Must be Vicious'
46 5. 'A Storm of Universal Fire'
59 6. 'English Man, Very Good Man'
73 7. 'We Must Go to the Orient'
91 8. 'Our Empire Seems Destined to be Short
Lived'
108 9. 'Why. Deprive Me of My Poor and Barren Country?'
125 10. 'Europeans Cannot Retreat'
140 11. 'The Great Chiefs and Landowners of India'
154 12. 'Worth Three Hundred a Year, Dead or Alive'
167 13. 'We Are Pledged to India'
187 14. 'Marching up to an Impossible Solution'
201 15. 'Crushed by English Poetry'
219 Notes
229 Bibliography
256 Glossary
263 Index
267