The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India, by Jon Wilson, New York, PublicAffairs, , pp., US$ (hardcover), ISBN This is an important book. For too long, historians have treated British rule in India as some sort of hulking superstructure: all-seeing, all-knowing and all-powerful, guided by particular. Through the lives of administrators, soldiers, and subjects—both British and Indian—The Chaos of Empire traces Britain's imperial rule from the East India Company's first transactions in the s to Indian Independence in The Raj was the most public demonstration of a state's ability to project power far from home, and its perceived success was used to justify interventions around the world in 4/5(53). · Book Description. A sweeping history of the conquest of India by the British, from the first faltering trading stations to the marbled imperial cities, emphasizing the violence of colonial rule and its chaotic inheritance. About the Author.4/5(41).
Jon Wilson was born in Leicester, England, educated at Oxford University and the New School for Social Research in New York, and has taught history at King's College London since He directs Historians in Residence, a project connecting history with public institutions in www.doorway.ruide his historical research he comments in a range of media on contemporary British and South Asian. The popular image of the British Raj-an era of efficient but officious governors, sycophantic local functionaries, doting amahs, blisteringly hot days and torrid nights-chronicled by Forster and Kipling is a glamorous, nostalgic, but entirely fictitious. In this dramatic revisionist history, Jon Wilson upends the carefully sanitized image of. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!
www.doorway.ru - Buy The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India book online at best prices in India on www.doorway.ru Read The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India book reviews author details and more at www.doorway.ru Free delivery on qualified orders. Wilson, senior lecturer in history at King's College London, ambitiously challenges the image of the British Raj as stable, unitary, and fully sovereign over the millions of Indians it claimed to. Through the lives of administrators, soldiers, and subjects—both British and Indian—The Chaos of Empire traces Britain's imperial rule from the East India Company's first transactions in the s to Indian Independence in The Raj was the most public demonstration of a state's ability to project power far from home, and its perceived success was used to justify interventions around the world in the years that followed.
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