Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British IndiaMacmillan, 2000 M08 12 - 722 pages 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 Raj: under its rule, Indians learned to see themselves as Indians; its benefits included railways, roads, canals, schools, universities, hospitals, universal language and common law. |
Contents
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Acknowledgements | |
THE COMPANY ASCENDANT 174084 | 1 |
Prologue Mughal Twilight | 3 |
Glorious Prospect Robert Clives Wars 174055 | 13 |
New Strength from Conquest Bengal 175565 | 30 |
An Empire Within an Empire British Reactions to Indian Conquests | 45 |
No Retreat Grand Strategy and Small Wars 17841826 | 63 |
Not as Relics but as Rulers Indias Princes | 322 |
We are British Subjects Loyalty and Dissent 18601905 | 341 |
Not Worth the Candle Wars Real and Imaginary 18541914 | 364 |
Never at Peace Indias Frontiers and Armies | 392 |
Conciliatory Sugar Plums Compromise and Coercion 190614 | 415 |
True to Our Salt India and the First World War 191418 | 437 |
Strong Passion Amritsar and After 191922 | 462 |
This Wonderful Land AngloIndian Perspectives | 489 |
The Cossack and the Sepoy Misadventures of an Asian Power 182642 | 79 |
The cast of a Die The Sind and the Sikhs 184349 | 99 |
Robust Bodies and Obstinate Minds An Anatomy of Conquest | 119 |
European Gentlemen Indias New Ruling Class | 151 |
Utility and Beneficence British Visions and Indian Realities | 173 |
Gradual and Mild Correction Taxing and Policing India | 187 |
A Hearty Desire Sex Religion and the Raj | 207 |
The Sahib Paid No Attention The Raj Imperilled JanuaryJuly 1857 | 233 |
Very Harrowing Work The Raj Resurgent August 1857 January 1859 | 254 |
Like Elephants on Heat AngloIndian Reactions to the Mutiny | 278 |
Low and Steady Pressure The Exercise of Absolute Power | 301 |
A Great Trial of Strength Power Struggles 192242 | 517 |
Bad Knock India at War JanuaryJuly 1942 | 543 |
An Occupied and Hostile Country India at War August 1942August 1945 | 562 |
What Are We Here For? September 1945February 1947 | 584 |
Was It Too Quick? Dividing and Departing MarchSeptember 1947 | 606 |
Epilogue | 638 |
Bibliography | 646 |
Notes | 667 |
Index | 707 |