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The Marquis of Dalhousie's administration of British India (Volume II) Containing the Annexation of Pegu, Nagpore, and Oudh, and a General Review of L

The Marquis of Dalhousie's administration of British India (Volume II) Containing the Annexation of Pegu, Nagpore, and Oudh, and a General Review of L

Arnold, Edwin

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Biographies GeneralGeneral Asian HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 9353706165
ISBN13: 9789353706166
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 1 2019
Pages: 402
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.89 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Power, policy, and conquest collide. In the decisive years of the Governor-General of India, borders moved and lives changed. Volume II of Edwin Arnold's The Marquis of Dalhousie's administration of British India brings readers to the centre of East India Company rule as Lord Dalhousie rule reaches its most controversial turning points: the annexation of Pegu, the annexation of Nagpur, and the annexation of Oudh. Written in the cadence of Victorian colonial history yet grounded in documentary attention, Arnold traces the machinery of administration alongside the moral and political arguments that surrounded expansion. You will find a history reference edition in spirit: clear narrative, firm dates, and a wide-angle review of a programme that reshaped nineteenth century India. The focus is administrative decision-making: treaties, succession disputes, and the language of 'good government' used to justify absorption of princely states. Arnold's perspective, unmistakably of his age, makes the volume especially valuable for reading the period's assumptions as well as its record. For anyone drawn to colonial India history and South Asian history research, this classic history reprint is both a window and a warning, revealing how railways, revenue systems, and diplomacy sat beside coercion and dispossession. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, it is restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure, ideal for casual readers seeking an absorbing account and for classic-literature collectors building a serious Victorian colonial history shelf.

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