Lionel Carter
Showing all 9 books
Chronicles of British Business in Asia, 1850-1960 provides descriptions of more than a hundred British firms which have had ‘company histories’ written about their activities in Asia. The years chosen cover the ‘high-noon’ of the British Empire as well as its subsequent decline and the firms are shown as having to come to terms with very different operating circumstances. The studies ...
This volume produces the texts of 123 fortnightly reports and other documents sent to the Viceroy by the governors of the Punjab or their secretaries between 1936 and 1939. The governors' descriptions of their many tours throughout the province provide a vivid picture of the Punjab in these last self-confident years of the Raj. There is much discussion of political developments taking place within the various communities. Congress was relatively weak in the ...
This volume reproduces in full Mountbatten’s own account of the last five months of British rule in India based on reports he sent to London at the time. Written with disarming frankness, we witness the failure of Mountbatten’s initial attempts to secure independence on the basis of a united India. He then turned to some form of agreed partition and his eventual success was achieved after considerable feats of diplomacy. The figures of Gandhi, Jinnah, ...
This volume provides the texts of 126 fortnightly reports and other documents sent to the Viceroy by the Governors of the Punjab or their secretaries between January 1944 and early March 1947. The years covered were crucial in the run-up to partition and the volume documents the growing strength of the Muslim League in the Punjab which was most clearly demonstrated by its resounding victory in the 1946 elections. Corresponding activity on the part of ...
This is the fourth volume in a series which prides the texts of the Fortnightly Reports sent by the Governors of the Punjab to the Viceroy. Other key documents sent by the Governor or his Secretary are Also includes. There are 154 items in total. The volume covers the period which followed the fall of the Khizar Ministry and during which discussions on India’s constitutional future were taking place. Initial attempts to form a new Ministry ...
This is the fifth and final volume in a series which provides the texts of the Fortnightly Reports sent by the Governors of the Punjab to the Viceroy. Other key documents sent by the Governor or his Secretary are also included. There are 153 items in total. The volume opens with the announcement of the Mountbatten Plan on 3 June 1947 which provided for the partition of the Punjab. A major theme, therefore, of this volume is the making of ...
This is the first volume in a series which provides the texts of the fortnightly reports sent by the Governors of the United Provinces to the Viceroy. Other key documents sent by the Governors or their Secretaries are also included. There are 151 items in total. The subject of this volume is the start of Ministerial Government in the U.P. Congress, which won a resounding victory in elections held early in 1937, did not immediately take office because of a dispute ...