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Peace, Poverty and Betrayal - A New History of British India (Paperback)
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Peace, Poverty and Betrayal - A New History of British India (Paperback)
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Loot Price R473
Discovery Miles 4 730
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How can we explain Britain's long rule in India beyond the cliches
of 'imperial' versus 'nationalist' interpretations? In this new
history, Roderick Matthews tells a more nuanced story of 'oblige
and rule', the foundation of common purpose between colonisers and
powerful Indians. Peace, Poverty and Betrayal argues that this was
more a state of being than a system: British policy was never clear
or consistent; the East India Company went from a manifestly
incompetent ruler to, arguably, the world's first liberal
government; and among British and Indians alike there were both
progressive and conservative attitudes to colonisation. Matthews
skilfully illustrates that this very diversity and ambiguity of
British-Indian relations also drove the social changes that led to
the struggle for independence. Skewering the simplistic binaries
that often dominate the debate, Peace, Poverty and Betrayal is a
fresh and elegant history of British India.
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