Author: Partha Sarathi Gupta
Publisher: Permanent Black
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 528
ISBN/UPC (if available): 817824019X
Description
This volume reflects varied interests of Partha Sarathi Gupta, who was an outstanding scholar and whose academic interests spanned modern British and Indian history. Articles included in this collection relate to imperial policy, and with special reference to India, the army, federalism, tariff policy, and the spread of broadcasting. Other articles deal with major issues in labor history, cultural history, nationalism, and identity formation.
The book will be indispensable for all students of modern Indian history, as also for those interested in the encounter between British imperialism and Indian nationalism.
Contents
Introduction
1.THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF IMPERIALISM AND NATIONALISM
Identity Formation and Nation-States: Some Reflections
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire
Economic Imperialism: The Case of the British Empire, 1895-1914
II.THE END-GAME OF THE EMPIRE
Federalism and Provincial Autonomy as Devices of Imperial Control
State and Business in India in the Age of Discriminatory Protection, 1916-1939
The Courts of Law and the Quit India Movement
Imperialism and the Labor Government of 1945-1951
III.THE ARMY IN THE IMPERIAL SYSTEM
The Army, Politics and Constitutional Change in India, 1919-1939
Imperial Strategy and the Transfer of Power, 1939-1951
India in Commonwealth Defense, 1947-1956
IV.LABOUR HISTORY
Notes on the Origin and Structuring of the Industrial Labor Force in India, 1880-1900
British Railway Labor's Lobby, 1870-1900
British Labor and the Indian Left, 1919-1939
V.CULTURE AND THE RAJ
Music and Communalism in Bengal
Radio and the Raj
The Quality of Life and Indian Scholarship
Lists of Partha Sarathi Gupta’s writings
Index