Lion and the Tiger The Rise and Fall of the British Raj, 1600-1947

Name: Lion and the Tiger The Rise and Fall of the British Raj, 1600-1947
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ISBN: 9780192803580

ISBN-10: 0192803581

ISBN-13: 9780192803580

Edition: 2004

Authors: Denis Judd

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By the end of the Napoleonic Wars, after a series of titanic struggles against the French and various local rulers during the eighteenth century, Britain had gained mastery of the subcontinent. This period, and the century and a half that followed, saw two powerful cultures locked in an often bloody battle over political control, land, trade and a way of life. In The Lion and the Tiger, Denis Judd tells the fascinating story of the British impact upon India, capturing the essence of what the Raj really meant both for the British and their Indian subjects. Judd examines virtually every aspect of this long and controversial relationship, from the first tentative contacts between East and…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/19/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of Plates



'To fly to India for gold': Early Contacts, 1583-1615



'Infamous for their honest endeavours': Laying Foundations, 1615-1708



Conquest and Corruption: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1708-1815



'The great ends we have in view': The East India Company as Paramount Power, 1815-1857



'The devil's wind': The Great Indian Uprising, or Mutiny, of 1857-1858



Lords of All they Surveyed? The Raj at its Zenith, 1858-1905



The Beginning of the End? Reform and Conflict, 1905-1919



Gandhi and the Fightback of Indian Nationalism, 1919-1939



'Engine of War' or the Enemy Within? India, 1939-1945



'Tryst with Destiny': Freedom and Partition, 1945-1947


Epilogue


Chronology


Sources for Quotations


Bibliography


Index