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    612-822-4611

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The Lion and the Tiger: The Rise and Fall of the British Raj, 1600-1947

The Lion and the Tiger: The Rise and Fall of the British Raj, 1600-1947

Judd, Denis

Paperback

General World HistoryBritish HistoryIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 0192805797
ISBN13: 9780192805799
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 19 2010
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
The British experience in India began in earnest over four hundred years ago, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. For many years the English interlopers and traders who made contact with the subcontinent were viewed by Indians as little more than pirates and potentially troublesome conquering barbarians. After a series of titanic struggles against the French and various local rulers during the eighteenth century, by the end of the Napoleonic Wars Britain had gained mastery of the subcontinent. This period, and the century and a half that followed, saw two powerful cultures locked in an often bloody battle over political control, land, trade, and a way of life.

Denis Judd tells the fascinating story of the remarkable British impact upon India. All aspects of this long and controversial relationship are discussed, such as the first tentative contacts between East and West, the foundation of the East India Company in 1600, the Victorian Raj in all its pomp and splendour, Gandhi's revolutionary tactics to

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