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In the face of the British drive for supremacy local rulers could either co-operate, as did Vira Vermma of Kurumpanatu, or rebel, like Kerala Varmma Palassi Raja of Kottayam who presented one of the most significant challenges to colonial domination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA major contribution to academic literature on the region, this book combines detailed case study with broader ideas about the phenomenon of conflicting cultures and the resulting negotiation of new values within the spheres of politics, society, and economy. 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Te book simply- to use the expression of the critics-told the story of how we had won India. We are now entering upon a period when we shall be called upon to defend the Empire we so greatly gained. Upon this point let there be no mistake in the public mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This volume contains the story of the conquest of the several races of India by our countrymen. To this purpose are devoted eleven out of the twelve chapters of which it is composed. The remaining chapter, the first in order in the book, is the key to all others; for it records an event, but for the occurrence of which the battles which follow might have been indefinitely postponed. 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It begins with a background of the building of the British Raj in India, a move not deliberate but powerful enough to shape history for decades to come. The author delves in great detail into the causes of the Mutiny, unlike preceding writes who mostly concentrated on the consequences. Through personal knowledge and observation he attempts to in-point that latent power that drove the mutiny on. He gives a realistic account of all the important operations that took place, praising the heroic and criticizing the undeserving. He is careful not to overlay his work with too much tedious detail, so his writing remains lucid and interesting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Indian Mutiny of 1857 captures successfully and uncompromisingly an event that was perhaps disorganized but large in scale, dealing with each individual area separately, analysing the causes and effects locally and nation-wide. 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British historian Talbot (Coventry Univ.) concentrates on the push for Pakistan in the 20th century and then discusses the modern state, omitting its initial eastern portion, now Bangladesh. Oriented toward political history, he fails to give the big picture, offering little treatment of the cultural, ethnic, religious, and social issues that have so challenged development in Pakistan over time. Although the author is English, his book does not exhibit the command of the language so often associated with British scholarship on Southeast Asia, and it could use a glossary for its excessive discussion of splinter political groups, each identified by an acronym. Talbot's audience is a specialized one. 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The volume includes extracts by such well-known personalities as Swami Vivekananda, Lajpat Rai, Bankim Chandra, Raja Rammohan Roy, K T Telang, Aurobindo Ghosh, Rabindranath Tagore, M G Ranade,, Mahatma Gandhi, and B R Ambedkar among many others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA valuable entry point to understanding the present day social problems faced by the Hindu community, this volume will be a useful supplementary text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of modern Indian history, sociology, and religious studies. 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It shows how mercantile trade was inextricably linked with imperial venture and scandalous excess, and how these three things provided the ideological basic for far-flung British expansion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this brilliantly readable and powerful critique, Dirks shows how the empire projected its own scandalous behavior onto India itself. By returning us to the moment when the scandal of empire became acceptable he gives us a new understanding of the modern culture of the colonizer and the colonized.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREVIEWS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a brilliant work of historical excavation…Dirks shows that, contrary to the imperialist ideologues then as now, the scandals of conquests, violence, and oppression were at its center, not its incidental sideshow. 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Discussing contemporary developments affecting Sikhs around the world, it provides a contextualized study of how modern Sikhism has evolved with particular attention to historical documents, changes in the colonial period, and the varied yet intertwined experiences of Sikhs in the Diaspora.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis valuable collection addresses a wide variety of themes including Sikh textual tradition and popular culture, operation of social hierarchies, local histories, transformation of Punjab under British rule, and other social issues that concern the Panth as a whole. The essays are united by a deep concern with the ‘texture’ of Sikh history –– the ways in which space, time, social structures, and political systems have shaped the development of the Panth. 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Secondly, it unfolds the various ways in which Muslims came to terms with this new, situation. Finally, it explains the impact on the questions of revival and reassertion of Islam as an intellectual and political force in the later Muslim movements in South Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDedication \u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e2. New Challenges\u003cbr\u003e3. The Modernists \u003cbr\u003e4. The Traditionalists \u003cbr\u003e5. The New School \u003cbr\u003e6. 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He also argues that the question of socialism in Britain is determined by the exploitation of the colonial peoples. He believes, therefore, that there is an intimate connection between the national liberation of the peoples of the empire and the struggle of the British working class.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book remains important to any intellectual historical understanding of theories of Empire. It reflects the understanding of the British Empire and its manifestations, particularly in India, from the intellectual framework of socialism. Its value lies in the insight it provides into this type of understanding at the time it was written.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction to the 2008 Edition by Ian Talbot\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to the 1933 Edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. FIRST STEPS IN COLONIAL POLICY \u003cbr\u003eEarly Colonial Rivalries \u003cbr\u003eThe Conquest of India \u003cbr\u003eThe 'Revolution' in Indian Society \u003cbr\u003eThe Chartered Monopolies \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. COLONIAL POLICY IN THE PERIOD OF INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM, 1815-1895 \u003cbr\u003eThe New Colonial Policy \u003cbr\u003eThe 'Development' of India \u003cbr\u003eLand 'Reform' and Famine \u003cbr\u003eThe Opening-Up of Africa \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. IMPERIALISM AND COLONIAL POLICY \u003cbr\u003eNew Features in Colonial Policy \u003cbr\u003eColonial Policy and War \u003cbr\u003eThe Colonies and the Crisis of Capitalism \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. CHAPTER IV: BRITISH POLICY IN INDIA \u003cbr\u003eIndia's Place in the Empire \u003cbr\u003eThe Indian Peasantry \u003cbr\u003eThe Condition of the Working Class \u003cbr\u003eThe 'Communal' Question \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. CLASS STRUGGLE IN INDIA, AND THE BRITISH 'REFORMS' \u003cbr\u003eThe Stages of British Policy \u003cbr\u003eIndia is a Colonial Dependency \u003cbr\u003eThe Basis of the Class Struggle \u003cbr\u003eRestraints on Industrial Progress \u003cbr\u003eThe Indian White Paper \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT IN INDIA \u003cbr\u003eBirth of the National Movement \u003cbr\u003eThe Post-War Revolt \u003cbr\u003eThe Development of the Working Class Movement \u003cbr\u003eThe Meerut Conspiracy Case \u003cbr\u003eThe Indian Trade Unions and Strikes \u003cbr\u003eThe Indian Workers and the National Struggle \u003cbr\u003eA Programme of Action \u003cbr\u003eGrowth of the Economic Crisis \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7.  BRITISH IMPERIALISM IN AFRICA \u003cbr\u003eEgypt, the Land of Cotton \u003cbr\u003eEgypt and the Labour Governments \u003cbr\u003eThe Workers' and Peasants' Movements \u003cbr\u003eThe West African Colonies \u003cbr\u003eThe Women's Rising in Nigeria \u003cbr\u003eHow an 'Enlightened' Policy Works \u003cbr\u003eThe Slave Colonies of East Africa \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8.  THE NEAR-EASTERN COLONIES \u003cbr\u003eThe New Empire in the Near East \u003cbr\u003eIrak \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9. THE MILITARY POLICY OF BRITISH IMPERIALSM \u003cbr\u003eThe Empire and War \u003cbr\u003eColonial Revolt and the Soviet Union \u003cbr\u003eThe War Strength of the Empire \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10. 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It has seared the psyche of four plus generations of this subcontinent.  Why did this partition take place at all?  Who was\/is responsible – Jinnah?  The Congress Party? Or the British? Jaswant Singh attempts to find an answer, his answer, for there can perhaps not be a definitive answer, yet the author searches.  Jinnah’s political journey began as ‘an ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity’ (Gopal Krishna Gokhale), yet ended with his becoming the ‘sole spokesman’ of Muslims in India; the creator of Pakistan, the Quaid-e-Azam:  How and why did transformation take place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo Indian or Pakistani politician\/Member of Parliament has ventured an analytical, political biography of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, about whom views necessarily get divided as being either hagiographical or additional demonology.  The book attempts an objective evaluation.  Jaswant Singh’s experience as a minister responsible for the conduct of India’s foreign policy, managing the country’s defence(concurrently), had been uniformly challenging (Lahore Peace Process; betrayed at Kargil; Kandahar; the Agra Peace Summit; the attack on Jammu \u0026amp; Kashmir Assembly and the Indian Parliament; coercive diplomacy of 2002; the pace overtures reinitiated in April 2003).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe asks where and when did this questionable thesis of ‘Muslims as a separate nation’ first originate and lead the Indian sub-continent to?  And where did it drag Pakistan to?  Whey then a Bangladesh? And what now of Pakistan?  Where is headed?  This book is special; it stands apart, for it is authored by a practitioner of policy, an innovator of policies in search of definitive answers.  Those burning whys of the last sixty-two years, which bedevil us still.  Jaswant Singh believes that for the return of lasting peace in South Asia there is no alternative but to first understand what made it abandon us in the first place. Until we do that, a minimum, a must, we will never be able to persuade peace to return.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION:  A Complex Opening\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 India and Islam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 Jenabhai to Jinnah: The Journey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 The Turbulent Twenties\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 Sharpening Focus – Narrowing Options\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 A Short Decade – A Long End Came\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6 Sunset of the Empire – ‘Post-dated Cheque on a Collapsing Bank’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7 A War of Succession – Diverging Paths\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8 Stymied Negotiations?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9 Mountbatten Viceroyalty: The End of the Raj\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10 Pakistan: Birth – Independence -: The Quaid-e-Azam’s Last Journey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11 In Retrospect\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDICES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix to Chapter I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Simla Delegation and the Formation of the Muslim League\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendices to Chapter 2\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMinto-Morley Reforms (1909)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix II\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe official British opinion on the Montague-Chelmsford Reforms\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix III\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLucknow Pact\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix to Chapter 5\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Elections of 1937\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendices to Chapter 6\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix I \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Cripps Mission Plan, 1942\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix II\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe C.R. 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From Lord Mountbatten to Peggy Holroyde to Maurice and Taya Zinkin, Britishers who lived and worked in India reminisce about topics and points of interest as varied as the Indian Civil Service and the Roshanara Club, shikar and hazri, the Amateur Cine Society of India and the Doon School, Rudyard Kipling and Mahatma Gandhi.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelected from a series of articles commissioned by Khushwant Singh when he was the editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India these delightfully individualistic and refreshingly candid writings reveal a fascinating array of British attitudes, experiences, observations, fond memories, the occasional short-lived grouses and, above all, a deep and abiding affection and respect for India.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCOMMENTS: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Thus we both were tied to India with every possible bond of memory and affection, which clearly played an important part in our lives… as the last Viceroy and indeed when I stayed on as the first Governor-General of the independent country of India.’ \u003cbr\u003e—Lord Mountbatten\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A Collection of essays that makes compelling reading... 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Sir Jadunath Sarkar, the most eminent Indian historian of the time, agreed to take up the task and completed the manuscript in 1939-40.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRajput sensitivity towards incidents depicting Mughal-Rajput relations, and other obstacles, prevented publication, and the History was preserved over the decades by the Sawai Man Singh II Museum at the City Palace, Jaipur.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is now close to forty-five years since Jadunath Sarkar completed his manuscript.  Shri Raghubir Singh, a student of Sir Jadunath's and a historian in his own right, was entrusted with the editing and updating of the original manuscript.  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