Strangers in the land : the rise and decline of the British Indian Empire /
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| Author / Creator: | Cavaliero, Roderick. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2002. |
| Description: | xvi, 280 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4728578 |
Table of Contents:
- List of maps
- List of illustrations
- Maps
- Preface
- 1.. 'To Agra and Lahore of Great Mogul'
- 2.. 'A Field Left Open for Adventurers'
- 3.. 'That Man not Born for a Desk'
- 4.. 'The Mind that Grasps at Such Inordinate Wealth Must be Vicious'
- 5.. 'A Storm of Universal Fire'
- 6.. 'English Man, Very Good Man'
- 7.. 'We Must Go to the Orient'
- 8.. 'Our Empire Seems Destined to be Short-Lived'
- 9.. 'Why...Deprive Me of My Poor and Barren Country?'
- 10.. 'Europeans Cannot Retreat'
- 11.. 'The Great Chiefs and Landowners of India'
- 12.. 'Worth Three Hundred a Year, Dead or Alive'
- 13.. 'We Are Pledged to India'
- 14.. 'Marching up to an Impossible Solution'
- 15.. 'Crushed by English Poetry'
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index
