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Empire, Politics and the Creation of the 1935 India Act
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Last Act of the Raj
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Artikel-Nr:
9780754667056
Veröffentl:
2009
Erscheinungsdatum:
24.08.2009
Seiten:
288
Autor:
Andrew Muldoon
Gewicht:
581 g
Format:
234x156x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Dr Andrew Muldoon of Metropolitan State College of Denver, USA
Situating the Government of India Act of 1935 in its political, cultural and intellectual contexts, this rich and nuanced study asks the question; what led British administrators to believe that the Act would deflect the path of Indian nationalism, and how was the information on which this policy was based gathered?
Introduction; Chapter 1 India Interpreted and Imagined: Culture, Intelligence and Policy-making in the Late-Colonial State; Chapter 2 The heart mesmerizes the head: Lord Irwin and the Nationalists, 1926¿1931; Chapter 3 The Problem of Reliable Information: British-Indian Contacts in 1931 and 1932; Chapter 4 Watching Gandhi: Predicting Indian Political Behavior, 1933¿1935; Chapter 5 Preventing an unholy row: Indian Reform, Commercial Policy and Lancashire, 1933¿1935; Chapter 6 The Men Who Know: Authority, Policy and the Future of the Empire in the Conservative Party; Chapter 7 Provinces, Princes and Predictions: The Fate of the 1935 India Act; conclusion Conclusion;