Denis Judd9780192805799, 0192805797
Книга The Lion and the Tiger The Lion and the Tiger Книги Исторические Автор: Denis Judd Год издания: 2005 Формат: pdf Издат.:Oxford University Press Страниц: 247 Размер: 1,1 Mb ISBN: 0192805797 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка:The British experience in India began in earnest over four hundred years ago, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. For many years the English interlopers and traders who made contact with the subcontinent were viewed by Indians as little more than pirates and potentially troublesome conquering barbarians. After a series of titanic struggles against the French and various local rulers during the eighteenth century, by the end of the Napoleonic Wars 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. Denis Judd tells the fascinating story of the remarkable British impact upon India. All aspects of this long and controversial relationship are discussed, such as the first tentative contacts between East and West, the foundation of the East India Company in 1600, the Victorian Raj in all its pomp and splendour, Gandhi’s revolutionary tactics to overthrow the Raj and restore Indian to the Indians, and Lord Mountbatten’s ‘swift surgery of Partition’ in 1947, creating the two independent Commonwealth states of India and Pakistan. Against this epic backdrop, and using many revealing contemporary accounts, Denis Judd explores the consequences of British rule for both rulers and ruled. Were the British intent on development or exploitation? Were they the ‘civilizing’ force they claimed? What were Britain’s greatest legacies: democracy and the rule of law, or cricket and an efficient railway system? Easy answers are avoided in this immensely readable, lively, and authoritative book. |
Table of contents :
Contents……Page 10
List of Plates……Page 12
1. ‘To fly to India for gold’: Early Contacts, 1583-1615……Page 16
2. ‘Infamous for their honest endeavours’: Laying Foundations, 1615-1708……Page 29
3. Conquest and Corruption: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1708-1815……Page 43
4. ‘The great ends we have in view’: The East India Company as Paramount Power, 1815-1857……Page 61
5. ‘The devil’s wind’: The Great Indian Uprising, or Mutiny, of 1857-1858……Page 85
6. Lords of All they Surveyed? The Raj at its Zenith, 1858-1905……Page 106
7. The Beginning of the End? Reform and Conflict, 1905-1919……Page 129
8. Gandhi and the Fightback of Indian Nationalism, 1919-1939……Page 140
9. ‘Engine of War’ or the Enemy Within? India, 1939-1945……Page 166
10. ‘Tryst with Destiny’: Freedom and Partition, 1945-1947……Page 181
Epilogue……Page 206
Chronology……Page 216
Sources for Quotations……Page 220
Bibliography……Page 230
B……Page 238
C……Page 240
F……Page 241
H……Page 242
I……Page 243
L……Page 244
M……Page 245
P……Page 246
S……Page 247
T……Page 248
Y……Page 249 |
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