The Empire of the Raj: India, Eastern Africa and the Middle East, 1858-1947

by Robert J. Blyth

British India, as a result of history, geopolitics and its unique status within the Empire, controlled a chain of overseas agencies that stretched from southern Persia to eastern Africa. This book examines how, as the relative importance of British interests steadily eclipsed those of India throughout the region, Indian sub-imperial impulses clashed with the relentlessly advancing metropole. The nature of the struggle over political control between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333914759
• ISBN13: 9780333914755
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 9.0"