In defence of british india

Global Health Security in China, Japan, and India

Global Health Security in China, Japan, and India uses the targets set by the UN Sustainable Development Goals to conduct an impressively thorough ass

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Islamic Revival in British India

In a study of the vitality of Islam in late-nineteenth-century north India, Barbara Metcalf explains the response of Islamic religious scholars ('ulam

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Unmaking the East India Company

Illuminates how new modes of artistic production in colonial India shaped the British stateÂ’s nationalisation of the East India Company, transforming

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India and the British Empire

Essays by leading historians from around the world combine to create a timely and authoritative assessment of a number of the major themes in the hist

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The History of the British Empire in India

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Experiences of a Young British Officer in India, 1845-1849

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India Conquered

India Conquered traces the rise and fall of British power in South Asia.

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Alternative Defence Policy

This book, first published in 1988, represents a unique attempt to combine a discussion of an alternative British defence policy in terms of military

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Precious Treasures from the Diamond Throne

Brand new research on the place where Buddha attained enlightenment: the temple site of BodhgayÄ in eastern India.

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Grafted Arts

Conceptualizes “graft”— the violent and creative processes of suturing arts as a method of empire building in western eighteenth-century India

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Defence and Decolonisation in South-East Asia

This text explains British defence policy by examining the overlapping of colonial, military, economic and Cold War factors in Southeast Asia.

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Mizo Discovery of the British Raj

Based on a wide range of research and enriched by sources newly digitised by the author, Kyle Jackson presents a history of Mizoram in Northeast India

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British-Built Buses Abroad in the 1980s

Previously unpublished images of British buses in Canada, Macau, India South Africa, Portugal and Hong Kong.

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Coastal Defences of the British Empire in the Revolutionary a Napoleonic Eras

Explodes the myth that after Trafalgar, Martello towers and other coastal-defence infrastructure were unnecessary.

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India under Colonial Rule: 1700-1885

By 1885, India may have become the jewel in the British crown, but already a series of changes had occurred within Indian society that would set the f

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Wellington and the British Army's Indian Campaigns 1798 - 1805

Compelling study of the British campaigns in India during the Napoleonic Wars. Focuses on the campaigns of Arthur Wellesley - later Duke of Wellington

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Harry Potter - A Journey Through A History of Magic - British Library

<p>An irresistible romp through the history of magic, from alchemy to unicorns, ancient witchcraft to Harry's Hogwarts - packed with unseen sketches and manuscript pages from J.K. Rowling, magical illustrations from Jim Kay and weird, wonderful and inspiring artefacts that have been magically released from the archives at the British Library. This spellbinding book ...

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Cruel Seas Miniatures Game herní rozšíření Set British Royal Nav

Great Britain never built a vessel as fast or as deadly as the E-boats, instead, fielding many types of MTB and motor gunboats. After a slow start, the Royal Navy helped by construction in the USA, Canada and India, built an extraordinary catalogue of excellent small boats, supported by larger vessels which gave serious firepower and, using the characteristics of each boa...

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Division Of The Spoils

BOOK FOUR OF THE RAJ QUARTETThe British Raj in India is in its final days. And for the British families still residing in India, decisions about their

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Avalon Hill desková hra Axis a Allies WWI 1914 english

Experience Axis a Allies in the setting of World War I with the familiar, time-tested A a A rules adapted to let players control the armies of 1914.The Central Powers of Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire are aligned against the great alliance of France, the British Empire, the Russian Empire, Italy and the United States on a new game board ext...

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Fifty Things You Need To Know About British History - Hugh Williams

<p>What are the 50 key events you need to understand to grasp British history? If you could choose the 50 things that define British history, events of significance not only in themselves, but in their importance to wider themes running through our past, what would they be? Hugh Williams has made that selection, and the result is a fascinating overview of Britain's...

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Birds of Passage

For centuries this account, the first joyful description of India by a British woman, remained unread in a Welsh castle.

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Triumph of Modernism

Explores the contested history of art and nationalism in the tumultuous last decades of British rule in India. With a fascinating array of art works,

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Stones of Empire

Stones of Empire brings together two leading authors in a very personal investigation of the British architectural legacy in India. The text and photo

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East of the Sun

The million copy bestseller - an utterly captivating story of three young British women in search of freedom and love in 1920s India

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Towers Of Silence

It is the last, bitter days of World War II and the British Raj in India is crumbling. But Merrick, though outwardly a consummate professional, is bru

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Empire of Sand

A lush and enthralling fantasy set in a magical world inspired by medieval India, from a British debut author. Perfect for fans of Trudi Canavan, Saba

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Handful of Heroes, Rorke's Drift

The Zulu War and Rorkes Drift in particular are a highly popular subject area. The Defence of Rorkes Drift is one of the most celebrated British fea

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At the Time of Partition

This book-length poem by a leading British poet (born in Pakistan) is set at the time of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, weaving a deeply

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Lessons in Chemistry: A special hardback edition of the #1 Sunday Times bestseller - Garmus Bonnie

Anotace: LIMITED FIRST PRINT RUN while stocks last - Discover this special hardback collector`s limited edition of the New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller.THE 6-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING BOOKAUTHOR OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS`The most charming and life-enhancing novel I`ve read in ages` Sunday Times``Thought-provoking and stylish` Guardian---------------...

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Lessons in Chemistry: A special hardback edition of the #1 Sunday Times bestseller - Bonnie Garmus

<p>LIMITED FIRST PRINT RUN while stocks last - Discover this special hardback collector's limited edition of the New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller.THE 6-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING BOOKAUTHOR OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS'The most charming and life-enhancing novel I've read in ages' Sunday Times''Thought-provoking and stylish' Guardian----------------...

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Prague Papers on the History of International Relations 2015/2

<p>Articles<br /> Metternich and the Italian League Myth in 1833 (Miroslav Šedivý)<br /> Great Powers and the Sino-Japanese War 1894-1895 (Aleš Skřivan, Sr. - Aleš Skřivan, Jr.)<br /> Japan and Korea at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Century (Veronika Krištofová)<br /> The Establishment of the Committee of Imperial Defence and the British-Domi...

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Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations - Simon Schama

<p>Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before. Characteristically, with...

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Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5´s Secret Nazi Hunter - Hutton Robert

Anotace: June 1940. Britain is Europe`s final bastion of freedom - and Hitler`s next target. But not everyone fears a Nazi invasion. In factories, offices and suburban homes are men and women determined to do all they can to hasten it.Throughout the Second World War, Britain`s defence against the enemy within was Eric Roberts, a former bank clerk from Epsom. Equipped wit...

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Inglorious Empire

Inglorious Empire tells the real story of the British in India - from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj - revealing how Brit

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Bengal Lancer

The memoir of a young cavalry officer in India in the British Empire and his search for spiritual fulfilment.

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Railways and The Raj

The epic story of the British construction of the railways in India, as told by Britain's bestselling transport historian.

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COFFER DAMS

Set in India, an ecological novel well ahead of its time. British colonialists attempt to tame nature with disastrous consequences.

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Generals (Wellington and Napoleon 2)

Napoleon Bonaparte stands accused of treachery while the future Duke of Wellington leads the British army in India. The second novel in Simon Scarrow'

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Real 'Dad's Army'

Colonel Rodney Foster, who retired to Hythe in the south of England after a military career in British India, joined the Home Guard in 1940 and kept a

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Scotland's Empire

Tells the story of Scotland's role in forging and expanding the British Empire, from the Americas to Australia, India to the Caribbean. In this book,

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Religion, Enlightenment and Empire

In the second half of the eighteenth century, several British East India Company servants published accounts of what they deemed to be the original an

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Provincial Democracy

Tracks the history of democracy as it began to establish roots at the height of anticolonial nationalism in British India through calls for self-deter

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Ruling Caste

In 1900 just over a thousand British civil servants ruled a population of nearly 300 million people spread over a territory now covered by India, Paki

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Banned a Censored

The book dives into the history of sedition and censorship in colonial India. Closely examining 100 texts that the British Empire banned, censored or

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Unsettling Utopia

After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, France retained control of five scattered territories until 1962. Unsettling Utopia presen

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She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen

An extraordinary and illuminating book that tells the incredible stories of the first British women to set foot in India - 250 years before the Raj.

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Kim

This novel tells the story of Kimball O'Hara (Kim), who is the orphaned son of a soldier in the Irish regiment stationed in India during the British R

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Talking with Psychopaths and Savages: Guilty but Insane - Christopher Berry-Dee

A study of convicted murderers who have attempted to escape justice, and even the death penalty, by entering a plea of insanity - and sometimes succeeded The plea of insanity in criminal cases can be traced back at least to the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, which dates from 1755-1759 BC. It is a complicated defence, and its origins in modern law lie with the 'M'Naghten Ru...

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The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science

Troward was a divisional Judge in British-administered India. His avocation was the study of comparative religion. After his retirement from the judiciary in 1896, Troward set out to apply logic and a judicial weighing of evidence in the study of matters o

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Asian Britain - A Photographic History - Nasta Susheila

Anotace: Unique and arresting photographic history of South Asians in Britain (namely in Birmingham, Leeds, Bradford, Glasgow and London`s East End ), from 1858 to the present Includes rich and rarely seen images from archives in Britain, India and the US. Published in partnership with the British Library and Getty Images. With a preface by Razia Iqbal.

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Cutting for Stone (0099443635)

Kniha - autor Abraham Verghese, 542 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Marion and Shiva, born in Ethiopia in the 1950s, are the illicit twins of an Indian nun and British doctor. With wildly different temperaments, they grow up in a country on the brink of revolution, until a betrayal splits them apart. But fate will bring them together again. Spans the 1940s ...

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Rudyard Kipling - Kim

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. '"I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim?" His soul repeated it again and again.' Set against the backdrop of Britain and Russia's political struggle in central Asia, Kim, the son of a drunken Irish soldier grows up as a street-wise orphan in the city of Lahore. Upon befriending an aged Tibeta...

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Before the Rains - Jefferies Dinah

Anotace: A romantic, heart-wrenching tale of love against the odds from the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author 1930, Rajputana, India. Since her husband`s death, 28-year-old photojournalist Eliza`s only companion has been her camera. When the British Government send her to an Indian princely state to photograph the royal family, she`s determined to make a name fo...

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Wellington: The Road to the Lion´s Mound 1769-1815 - Res Daniel

Anotace: Wellington - The Road to the Lion´s Mound is the first volume of the story of the 1st Duke of Wellington, the man who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo and became a celebrated hero not only in Britain and Europe, but throughout the world. Daniel Res tells the gripping tale of Wellington´s exploits, giving the book an almost novel-like readability. In it we discover ...

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Wellington

Wellington – The Road to the Lion’s Mound is the first volume of the story of the 1st Duke of Wellington, the man who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo and became a celebrated hero not only in Britain and Europe, but throughout the world. Daniel Res tells the gripping tale of Wellington’s exploits, giving the book an almost novel-like readability. In it we discover the story ...

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Wellington: The Road to the Lion´s Mound 1769-1815 - Daniel Res

<p>Wellington – The Road to the Lion’s Mound is the first volume of the story of the 1st Duke of Wellington, the man who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo and became a celebrated hero not only in Britain and Europe, but throughout the world. Daniel Res tells the gripping tale of Wellington’s exploits, giving the book an almost novel-like readability. In it we discover t...

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The Mosquito - Winegardner Mark

Anotace: A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity`s fate. Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to tha...

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The Mosquito - Winegardner Mark

A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity's fate. Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its...

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Mosquito

A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity's fate. Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its...

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