Andrew Muldoon

Empire, Politics and the Creation of the 1935 India Act (eBook, ePUB)

Last Act of the Raj

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Situating the Government of India Act of 1935 in its political, cultural and intellectual contexts, this rich and nuanced study asks the question; what led British administrators to believe that the Act would deflect the path of Indian nationalism, and how was the information on which this policy was based gathered?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317144304
• Artikelnr.: 45092801

Autorenporträt

Dr Andrew Muldoon of Metropolitan State College of Denver, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Chapter 1 India Interpreted and Imagined: Culture,
Intelligence and Policy-making in the Late-Colonial State; Chapter 2 The
heart mesmerizes the head: Lord Irwin and the Nationalists, 1926-1931;
Chapter 3 The Problem of Reliable Information: British-Indian Contacts in
1931 and 1932; Chapter 4 Watching Gandhi: Predicting Indian Political
Behavior, 1933-1935; Chapter 5 Preventing an unholy row: Indian Reform,
Commercial Policy and Lancashire, 1933-1935; Chapter 6 The Men Who Know:
Authority, Policy and the Future of the Empire in the Conservative Party;
Chapter 7 Provinces, Princes and Predictions: The Fate of the 1935 India
Act; conclusion Conclusion;