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Vor 20 Stunden · Inglorious Empire arose from a speech given by Dr Shashi Tharoor in May 2015 at the Oxford Union in support of the motion ‘Britain Owes Reparations to Her Former Colonies’, focusing on British exploitation of India. The Union then posted the speech on the web.
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Vor 4 Tagen · Jon Wilson’s India Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire is a big book intended to provide a narrative account of how Britain, a small island nation in the northern Atlantic conquered India, a large subcontinental mass that sprawls across the Indian Ocean.
Vor 2 Tagen · Ideology and Empire superbly excavates the forgotten history of a moment in early colonial political thought, and in doing so forces us dramatically to rethink accounts of British rule in India during the period. Travers’s emphasis on the importance of historicist languages of legitimacy would have been diminished by discussion of ...
Vor 2 Tagen · The volume offers an accessible account of the history of the railways of the Raj since the railway operations commenced in India in 1853. The book also provides a substantial discussion of the Indian Railways’ post- Raj era story up to the present decade.
Vor 2 Tagen · The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain. Nicholas B. Dirks. Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press, 2006, ISBN: 9780674021662; 416pp.; Price: £18.95. Reviewer: Professor Michael Dodson. University of Indiana, Bloomington. Citation:
Vor 5 Tagen · The book is a ‘social history of technology’ and examines how British colonialism facilitated the introduction of new forms of transport and manufacturing technology into the Indian subcontinent and their impact on village society (pp. xi–xii).
Vor einem Tag · Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; [pron 1] 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
