Forging the Raj: Essays on British India in the Heyday of Empire

by Sarah Kailath and Thomas R. Metcalf

This set of essays written over a span of forty years from 1961 to 2002, examines the structure and working of the British Raj in India during the first half of Crown Rule (1858-1914). The essays are grouped under three general headings: land tenure and land policy, colonial architecture, and migration. Two themes dominate. One is an assessment of what the British thought they were doing in India, and second, how India ought to be ruled. In these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195667093
• ISBN13: 9780195667097
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.7"