Britain in India, 18581947

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Author: Lionel KnightISBN: 9780857285171Publisher: Anthem PressYear first published: 01 Nov 2012Pages: 228 Format: Paperback / softback'Britain in India, 18581947' seeks to trace t he last 90 years of British rule in the light of modern historical debates. The volume examines the ambiguities of British rule that followed from the post-Mutiny settlement: the tensions between an authoritarian bureaucracy and the promise of a liberal vision of the future, and between imperial interests and the growing coordination of Indian aspirations for self-rule. The volume analyses these tensions with reference to contemporary historical debates, and traces them through changing international relations and world wars to Indian independence and partition in 1947. Show more