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Pages: 576
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-10 - Publisher:
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Language: en
Pages: 463
Pages: 463
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-25 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster
For the century and a half before the Second World War, Britain dominated the Indian subcontinent. Britain’s East India Company ruled enclaves of land in Sout
Language: en
Pages: 584
Pages: 584
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-25 - Publisher: PublicAffairs
The popular image of the British Raj-an era of efficient but officious governors, sycophantic local functionaries, doting amahs, blisteringly hot days and torri
Language: en
Pages: 241
Pages: 241
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-16 - Publisher: Columbia University Press
A classic work in postcolonial studies, Masks of Conquest describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and illuminates the discipli
Language: en
Pages: 368
Pages: 368
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-28 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
What can war tell us about empire? In Climate of Conquest, Pratyay Nath seeks to answer this question by focusing on the Mughals. He goes beyond the traditional