Book of Donmon Teith

For two hundred years India was the jewel in the British imperial crown. During the course of governing India – the Raj – a number of words came to have par

British India generated the largest imperial archive in the world. From the stacks of administrative reports, minutes, instruction manuals, memoirs, letters, re

An authoritative and lively account of the long and controversial history of the British in India, from the foundation of the East India Company in 1600; to Gha

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts written about the Raj by British and Indians *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readin

This scholarly study is different from earlier books on the Raj in that it is neither hero-oriented nor self justifying. The emphasis instead is on world events