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This book seeks to appreciate the trends of imperial perceptions of India and her institutions. Thematically, the drift and propensities of imperial perceptions etched out here are valid for the whole period of Raj which was initiated with the assumption of authority by the British crown from the East India Company. The Delhi durbar of 1877 signified the frank and unambiguous demonstration by the Raj of its determination to hold India. The book attempts to ...
After the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 in the US, Afghanistan and the great game have been focused as the centrepiece of international attention. Commentators have been somewhat episodic in their treatment of issues in the present-day Afghanistan and the renewal of great game. Suhash Chakravarty has sought to present struggle against the Taliban barbarism in the context of the evolution of the Afghan polity and nation in the 20 century with a view to ...
Our investigation in this volume commences in 1932 when Krishna Menon along with Ellen Wilkinson, Monica Whately and Leonard Matters were commissioned by the India League to proceed on to India. The group was entrusted with a mission to study in depth the nature of the authoritarian regime initiated by Wedgwood Benn and carried out in cold blood by the combined efforts of Samuel Hoare and Willingdon. India that they saw had been witnessing deepening economic ...