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• catalog abstract ""An enigma within a paradox might best describe the nature of British rule in India. The Indian Empire was the 'jewel in the crown', Queen Victoria was Empress of India and her successors similarly raised to the purple. India was the lodestone of the British Empire and her loss regarded as an irretrievable blow to Britain's status as a world power. The British in India, first as adventurers and traders, and finally as rulers through the India Office in London and the Viceroy's Government in India, oversaw all aspects of Indian life - district administration, law, police, army, economics and trade, education and culture, relations with Princely states and foreign powers. And all was recorded in detail yielding the rich sources which, together with a vast library of travellers' tales and personal memoirs, underpin this remarkable new history. And there was mixing of cultures, certainly at the elite level, which led one Indian writer to say that 'all that was good and living within us was made, shaped and quickened by ... British rule'. But the deep sense of alienation remained and the British were always a 'little community of aliens'. The end came quickly at independence in 1947 and the British left a bitterly divided sub-continent." "Strangers in the Land is a narrative social and cultural history, naturally framed by the political and military story and its imperial context. The book explores the British-Indian relationship at all levels, enlivened by striking personalities and anecdote, throughout the long imperial history of India and what became Pakistan."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12562530.
• catalog coverage "India History British occupation, 1765-1947.".
• catalog coverage "India Politics and government 1765-1947.".
• catalog created "2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
• catalog description ""An enigma within a paradox might best describe the nature of British rule in India. The Indian Empire was the 'jewel in the crown', Queen Victoria was Empress of India and her successors similarly raised to the purple. India was the lodestone of the British Empire and her loss regarded as an irretrievable blow to Britain's status as a world power. The British in India, first as adventurers and traders, and finally as rulers through the India Office in London and the Viceroy's Government in India, oversaw all aspects of Indian life - district administration, law, police, army, economics and trade, education and culture, relations with Princely states and foreign powers. And all was recorded in detail yielding the rich sources which, together with a vast library of travellers' tales and personal memoirs, underpin this remarkable new history. And there was mixing of cultures, certainly at the elite level, which led one Indian writer to say that 'all that was good and living within us was made, shaped and quickened by ... British rule'. But the deep sense of alienation remained and the British were always a 'little community of aliens'. The end came quickly at independence in 1947 and the British left a bitterly divided sub-continent." "Strangers in the Land is a narrative social and cultural history, naturally framed by the political and military story and its imperial context. The book explores the British-Indian relationship at all levels, enlivened by striking personalities and anecdote, throughout the long imperial history of India and what became Pakistan."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "'To Agra and Lahore of Great Mogul' -- 'A Field Left Open for Adventurers' -- 'That Man not Born for a Desk' -- 'The Mind that Grasps at Such Inordinate Wealth Must be Vicious' -- 'A Storm of Universal Fire' -- 'English Man, Very Good Man' -- 'We Must Go to the Orient' -- 'Our Empire Seems Destined to be Short-Lived' -- 'Why ... Deprive Me of My Poor and Barren Country?' -- 'Europeans Cannot Retreat' -- 'The Great Chiefs and Landowners of India' -- 'Worth Three Hundred a Year, Dead or Alive' -- 'We Are Pledged to India' -- 'Marching up to an Impossible Solution' -- 'Crushed by English Poetry'.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-262) and index.".
• catalog extent "xvi, 280 p., [8] p. of plates :".
• catalog hasFormat "Strangers in the land.".
• catalog identifier "1860647979".
• catalog isFormatOf "Strangers in the land.".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "2002.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "London ; New York : I.B. Tauris,".
• catalog relation "Strangers in the land.".
• catalog spatial "India History British occupation, 1765-1947.".
• catalog spatial "India Politics and government 1765-1947.".
• catalog spatial "India.".
• catalog subject "954.03 22".
• catalog subject "British India.".
• catalog subject "DS463 .C28 2002".
• catalog tableOfContents "'To Agra and Lahore of Great Mogul' -- 'A Field Left Open for Adventurers' -- 'That Man not Born for a Desk' -- 'The Mind that Grasps at Such Inordinate Wealth Must be Vicious' -- 'A Storm of Universal Fire' -- 'English Man, Very Good Man' -- 'We Must Go to the Orient' -- 'Our Empire Seems Destined to be Short-Lived' -- 'Why ... Deprive Me of My Poor and Barren Country?' -- 'Europeans Cannot Retreat' -- 'The Great Chiefs and Landowners of India' -- 'Worth Three Hundred a Year, Dead or Alive' -- 'We Are Pledged to India' -- 'Marching up to an Impossible Solution' -- 'Crushed by English Poetry'.".
• catalog title "Strangers in the land : the rise and decline of the British Indian Empire / Roderick Cavaliero.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".