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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.
Contents
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
