India Under Colonial Rule: 1700-1885

ISBN-13: 9780582317383 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 180 str.

Douglas Peers

Opis

This volume looks at how India was first acquired by the British and takes the story through to the origins of the Indian National Congress. It deals with the Indian Mutiny and its consequences, and aims to explore how far race and gender influenced the colonial relationship.

O autorze

Douglas Peers teaches Indian and Imperial History at the University of Calgary. Previous publications include Between Mars and Mammon: Colonial Armies and the Garrison State in Nineteenth-Century India (1995), co-edited books on J.S. Mill and India and on India in the Victorian mass media, and articles on many different aspects of Indian military, literary and political history.