"Britain in India, 1858-1947" "Knight, Lionel"

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'Britain in India, 1858-1947' seeks to trace the last 90 years of British rule in the light of modern historical debates. The volume examines the ambiguities of British rule that followed from the post-Mutiny settlement: the tensions between an authoritarian bureaucracy and the promise of a liberal vision of the future, and between imperial interests and the growing coordination of Indian aspirations for self-rule. The volume analyses these tensions with reference to contemporary historical debates, and traces them through changing international relations and world wars to Indian independence and partition in 1947.

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• Acknowledgements (p. xi)
• Preface (p. xiii)
• Introduction (p. 1)
• 1 The British Indian Empire (p. 1)
• 2 An Empire of Opinion: The Legacy of the English East India Company (p. 2)
• 3 1857 (p. 6)
• 4 A Magna Carta for India (p. 8)
• Chapter 1 Crown Rule to 1880 (p. 13)
• 1 Coercion or Collaboration? (p. 13)
• 2 The Second Afghan War (p. 27)
• 3 Government and the Economy (p. 30)
• Chapter 2 Liberal Imperialism, 1880-1899 (p. 35)
• 1 Different Liberalisms (p. 35)
• 2 The Indian National Congress (p. 48)
• 3 Nationalists and the Economy: The 'Drain' (p. 54)
• 4 Communalism (p. 57)
• Chapter 3 The Consequences of Lord Curzon: India or the Empire, 1899-1916 (p. 63)
• 1 Lord Curzon (p. 63)
• 2 Foreign Policy (p. 65)
• 3 The Partition of Bengal (p. 68)
• 4 Curzon's Departure (p. 73)
• 5 The Morley-Minto Reforms (p. 73)
• 6 Terrorism (p. 77)
• 7 New Delhi and the Lucknow Pact, 1916 (p. 79)
• 8 Diaspora (p. 80)
• 9 The Illusion of Permanence (p. 84)
• Chapter 4 The First World War, 1914-1922 (p. 89)
• 1 The Strains of War (p. 89)
• 2 Wartime Politics: The Loss of the Initiative (p. 92)
• 3 Gandhi and the Rowlatt Satyagraha (p. 95)
• 4 The Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms (p. 98)
• 5 The Khilafat Movement (p. 103)
• 6 Non-Cooperation (p. 104)
• Chapter 5 Dyarchy and Depression, 1922-1939 (p. 109)
• 1 Provincial Politics (p. 109)
• 2 Communalism and Civil Society (p. 112)
• 3 Constitutional Initiatives (p. 117)
• 4 The Depression: Indian Business Turns to Congress (p. 125)
• 5 Socialism's Limited Success (p. 127)
• 6 Federation and the States (p. 129)
• 7 The Government of India Act, 1935 (p. 131)
• 8 The 1937 Election (p. 132)
• 9 Congress Raj, 1937-39 (p. 135)
• Chapter 6 The Impact of War, 1939-1945 (p. 137)
• 1 Direct Rule (p. 137)
• 2 The Lahore Resolution (p. 138)
• 3 The Cripps Mission: 22 March-12 April 1942 (p. 140)
• 4 Quit India (p. 142)
• 5 The Price of Victory (p. 144)
• Chapter 7 Independence, 1945-1947 (p. 147)
• 1 The 1945-46 Election (p. 147)
• 2 The Cabinet Mission, March-August 1946 (p. 148)
• 3 Rising Pressure (p. 150)
• 4 Lord Mountbatten (p. 153)
• 5 The Boundary Commission (p. 156)
• 6 The Integration of the States (p. 158)
• 7 Independence (p. 159)
• 8 Partition: Two Nations? (p. 162)
• Conclusion (p. 167)
• Appendix A (p. 171)
• Appendix B (p. 174)
• Chronology (p. 175)
• Notes (p. 179)
• Glossary (p. 198)
• Further Reading (p. 200)
• Questions (p. 204)
• Index (p. 207)