Category - Non Fiction / History
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Like New
Listed - 3 months ago
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Ships From - Virginia
Est. Publication Date - Oct 2016
Seller Description
"In [The Chaos of Empire,] Jon Wilson visits often-ignored arenas of British-Indian contact to mount adevastating critique of British rule. The exercise of sovereignty (or what the men who ruled India called 'dominion') was deemed sufficient unto itself. Policy-making was chaotic and implementation uneven (the rulers would have called it pragmatic). The only constant was violence. This is a brave and long-overdue riposte to Raj romanticists." -JOHN KEAY, author of India: A History and The Honourable Company
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The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India
ISBN: 9781610392938
Publisher Description
From the moment in the 1680s that the East India Company began to trade with the Mughal rulers of the port cities of Surat, Madras, Bombay, Calcutta, and Chittagong, the story of the Indian subcontine...
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