Author: Michael Mann
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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This Study Aims To Contribute To Research On Early British Indian Economic History, In Particular To Agararian History, In The Framework Of The Colonial Transformation Of Indian Agriculture. It Is Organized In Three Large Sections. The First Part Investigates The General Political Background And British Treatment Of The Nawab Of Awadh After The Battle Of Plassey And Centres Upon The Financial Organization Of The Annexed Areas. The Second Section On Ecological Principles Aims To Prepare The Ground For The Third Part. The Third Section Handles The Central Doab`S Agrarian History From The End Of The Eighteenth Century Until 1850 With Particular Reference To Deforestation And The Associated Consequences For The Region`S Agricultural Development During The Course Of The Nineteenth Century.
Author: G. Subrahmaṇya Aiyar
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Author: William Jennings Bryan
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Author: Shashi Tharoor
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780141987149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Inglorious Empire' tells the real story of the British in India from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj, revealing how Britain's rise was built upon its plunder of India. In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation. British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor takes on and demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial "gift" - from the railways to the rule of law -was designed in Britain's interests alone. He goes on to show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India's deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile industry.
Author: Indian National Party
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Author: Indian National Party (London, England)
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Author: Romesh Chunder Dutt
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Author: Sudhindra Bose
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Author: Sir Percival Griffiths
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429615450
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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First published in 1952, imperialism is a regularly recurring historical phenomenon, calling for neither approval not condemnation in the abstract. A more profitable exercise is to consider particular imperialisms and assess their spirit and their achievements. From this premise Sir Percival Griffiths proceeds to examine the political, administrative and economic effects on India of British rule. Formerly a member of the Indian Civil Service, later the leader of the British representatives in the Indian Legislative Assembly and now closely connected with commerce and industry in India and Pakistan, he has the advantage of a three-sided approach. He was, moreover, playing an active part in Indian public affairs throughout the years leading to the transfer of power. In 1942 he declared that he would fight any government which resiled from the promise of independence for India and when the Cabinet Mission visited India in 1947, it fell on him to assert - on behalf of the British community in India – their conviction that independence must be granted without further delay. It is because he has thus been a close eye-witness of the events of the last three decades in India that he has written this book. Although Western civilization is often regarded by Indians as materialistic, it is the spiritual rather than in the material sphere that British influence has been greatest. It has built up Indian nationalism; it has engendered in Indian minds a new concept of equality and of human rights; it has rekindled the scientific spirit; and is has profoundly modified the Indian intellectual approach to the problems in life. In all this there have been losses as well as gain – not least among the losses being the partial destruction of village corporate life and the spread of specticism among the intelligentsia – but there can be little doubt which way the balance lies. A further fifty years may have to elapse, Sir Percival suggests, before a final assessment of the impact of the British is possible. In the meantime the present book may be confidently recommended as the most authoritative and objective examination of the history and influence of British administration in Indian, which has yet appeared; a book, furthermore, that may be expected to achieve the status of a standard work.
Author: Karl Marx
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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