India Britannica
by Geoffrey Moorhouse
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From the beginnings of the East India Company in the seventeenth century down to February 28, 1948, when the Somerset Light Infantry became the last British soldiers to leave Indian soil, Moorhouse charts the course of British rule in India.Tags
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Very readable and generally balanced account of the British era in India. While not deep, it does provide a decent background. Unlike a lot of other authors, Moorhouse doesn't swing to one extreme or the other in describing British rule, but shows what parts were good, and what parts didn't work.
ASIA/INDI/India - History - British occupation, 1765-1947/India › Politics and government › 1765-1947
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Moorhouse opens his final, post-departure chapter with Eleanor Roosevelt's bewilderment that Americans were now less popular than the British--but he doesn't duck the question of why, in two centuries of rule (""behaving in turns abominably and decently toward the Indians""), they didn't do more. The staples of British India history are here too--from the (misnamed) Black Hole through Kipling show more and the Mutiny to Congress and Gandhi. There's also a great deal, though, of more-than-mere-color: vivid life. show less
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- India Britannica
- Original title
- India Britannica
- Important places
- British Empire; India; British India
- Important events
- British Raj
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- English, French
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