The flaws in the jewel : challenging the myths of British India
Material type: TextPublication details: Noida Harper Collins Publishers India 2009Description: 312pISBN: 9788172239367Subject(s): British India India-HistoryDDC classification: 954.03 Summary: Roderick Matthews re-examines British rule in India by concentrating on three central themes: its ability to defray the costs of its own maintenance; its impersonal and institutional qualities that gave it continuity and tenacity; and its commitment to a dual higher purpose-the uplift of the condition of the natives and the playing out of the superior moral character of the Englishman. At first, these'virtues' gave the Raj viability, vitality and focus. But over time they also proved to be weaknesses that could not be remedied. The Flaws in the Jewel shows how the British Raj was never able to overcome, or even properly to acknowledge, its many deficiencies. As a result, British rule developed into an uncomfortable amalgam of imperial economics, military autocracy and unfulfilled liberal aspirations.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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954.03 MAN/C Creating an early colonial order : conquest and contestation in South Asia, c.1775-1807 | 954.03 MAN/H Historical dictionary of India | 954.03 MAP Mapping India : transitions and transformations, 18th to 19th century | 954.03 MAT/F The flaws in the jewel : challenging the myths of British India | 954.03 MET/I Ideologies of the Raj | 954.03 MET/I Ideologies in the raj / | 954.03 MET/I Ideologies of the Raj |
Roderick Matthews re-examines British rule in India by concentrating on three central themes: its ability to defray the costs of its own maintenance; its impersonal and institutional qualities that gave it continuity and tenacity; and its commitment to a dual higher purpose-the uplift of the condition of the natives and the playing out of the superior moral character of the Englishman. At first, these'virtues' gave the Raj viability, vitality and focus. But over time they also proved to be weaknesses that could not be remedied. The Flaws in the Jewel shows how the British Raj was never able to overcome, or even properly to acknowledge, its many deficiencies. As a result, British rule developed into an uncomfortable amalgam of imperial economics, military autocracy and unfulfilled liberal aspirations.
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