British Raj the Documentary History Seri

by Denis Judd

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852102837
• ISBN13: 9781852102838
• Release Date: January 1821
• Publisher: Putnam
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent author, excellent book

Great book, every page of it. If you are not very acquainted with India history and if you are seeking for a concise history of British Rule in this country, this is for sure a good choice. The reading is absorbing, in particular on how the author explain the most important aspects of the 350 years of interaction, using lots of real notes and letters of those who lived there -- accounts that help you grasp, and understand better, how was it to live in India in those years, both for Britons and Indians. The relationship was difficult and left some sensibilities in the Indians that last to this day, but I think it was meant to be since both rulers and ruled were so different in almost every aspect. One corollary from the partition of India is that is not good to have two strong religions in a country, for that meaning rivalry and violence. You can see that also in the ex-Yugoslavia and even in today Iraq (shia and sunni muslims).