• General Editor's Foreword ... viii A Note on the Spelling of Sindh ... xi Cast of Characters and Glossary ... xii Illustrations ... xvi Acknowledgements ... xxiv Introduction ...
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• 1 Merchants and the East India Company in Sindh ...
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• 2 Conspiracy and Military-Fiscalism ...
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• 3 Just Governance and Colonial Violence ...
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• 4 Court Over Board ...
• 180 Afterword ...
• 224 Appendix: Anthropology, Context and Archives ...
• 229 Bibliography ...
• 241 Index ... 255.
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Annexation and the Unhappy Valley: The Historical Anthropology of Sindh's Colonization addresses the nineteenth century expansion and consolidation of British colonial power in the Sindh region of South Asia. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach and employs a fine-grained, nuanced and situated reading of multiple agents and their actions. It explores how the political and administrative incorporation of territory (i.e., annexation) by East India Company informs the conversion of intra-cultural distinctions into socio-historical conflicts among the colonized and colonizers. The book focuses on colonial direct rule, rather than the more commonly studied indirect rule, of South Asia. It socio-culturally explores how agents, perspectives and intentions vary-both within and across regions-to impact the actions and structures of colonial governance.
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• Culloden's children
• No great mischief
• Eastward ho!
• Baillie-ki-Paltan
• Brothers in arms
• Affairs of the heart
• A council of incompetents
• Command at Pondicherry
• Disaster
• Imprisonment and death at Seringapatam
• Homeward bound
• Brain fever in Baghdad
• Estrangement
• John of Leys and the acquisition of Bundelcund
• Margaret and the Anglo-Indian Elmores
• The resident at Lucknow
• Dismissal
• Retribution
• Dissolution.

"From 1760 to 1869, four generations of one family from the Scottish Highlands sought their fortunes in the service of the East India Company. As they worked their way up through the ranks of the empire, the Baillie family left numerous footprints in India and recorded their fascinating experiences in letters sent home to Scotland. Drawing on thorough research of the military, political, and economic events of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and an extensive collection of family letters that depict the lives and personalities of his ancestors, Alexander Charles Baillie brings the history of British India to life. The compelling documents, lost for over a century with many reproduced here, reveal changing race relations and social attitudes, cultural tensions, military and civilian battles, economic pressures, and the rise and decline of the East India Company. The book focuses especially on two members of the family--William of Dunain, a military officer, and John of Leys, a civil servant--whose numerous adventures and misadventures impart provocative clues about the workings of the empire and the daily lives of its most influential figures. An exciting, invaluable, and personalized glimpse into the past of India, Scotland, and the East India Company, Call of Empire will appeal to genealogy enthusiasts, and social and global historians."-- Provided by publisher.

• Prologue: Our title to India
• Empire at war
• Harvesting the colonies
• Scorched
• At any price
• Death of a thousand cuts
• An occupied and starving country
• In the village
• On the street
• Run rabbit run
• Life after death
• Split and quit
• The reckoning.

A dogged enemy of Hitler, resolute ally of the Americans, and inspiring leader through World War II, Winston Churchill is venerated as one of the truly great statesmen of the last century. But while he has been widely extolled for his achievements, parts of Churchill's record have gone woefully unexamined. As journalist Madhusree Mukerjee reveals, at the same time that Churchill brilliantly opposed the barbarism of the Nazis, he governed India with a fierce resolve to crush its freedom movement and a profound contempt for native lives. A series of Churchill's decisions between 1940 and 1944 directly and inevitably led to the deaths of some three million Indians. The streets of eastern Indian cities were lined with corpses, yet instead of sending emergency food shipments Churchill used the wheat and ships at his disposal to build stockpiles for feeding postwar Britain and Europe. Combining meticulous research with a vivid narrative, and riveting accounts of personality and policy clashes within and without the British War Cabinet, Churchill's Secret War places this oft-overlooked tragedy into the larger context of World War II, India's fight for freedom, and Churchill's enduring legacy. Winston Churchill may have found victory in Europe, but, as this ground-breaking historical investigation reveals, his mismanagement- facilitated by dubious advice from scientist and eugenicist Lord Cherwell- devastated India and set the stage for the massive bloodletting that accompanied independence.
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• Introduction : the historical location and conceptual framing of Afghanistan
• Financing the Kabul produce
• Contracting nomadic carriage for an aquatic agenda
• Fiscal instability and state revenue reformulation during the first British occupation
• Capital concentrations and coordinations : Peshawar subsidies and Kabul workshops
• New state texts and old commercial flows
• Mutual evasion between Afghanistan and the global marketplace
• Conclusion : deflecting colonial canons and cannons : alternate routes to knowing Afghanistan.

Most histories of nineteenth-century Afghanistan argue that the country remained immune to the colonialism emanating from British India because, militarily, Afghan defenders were successful in keeping out British imperial invaders. However, despite these military victories, colonial influences still made their way into Afghanistan. Looking closely at commerce in and between Kabul, Peshawar, and Qandahar, this book reveals how local Afghan nomads and Indian bankers responded to state policies on trade. British colonial political emphasis on Kabul had significant commercial consequences both for the city itself and for the cities it displaced to become the capital of the emerging Afghan state. Focused on routing between three key markets, Connecting Histories in Afghanistan challenges the overtly political tone and Orientalist bias that characterize classic colonialism and much contemporary discussion of Afghanistan.
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• Contents: Preface-- Introduction--
• 1926: the General Strike and the coal dispute--
• 1927: the Trade Disputes Act and the Prayer Book controversy--
• 1928: the de-rating scheme and the liberal revival--
• 1929: the General Election and the Irwin Declaration--
• 1930: the Conservative Party crisis and the round table conference--
• 1931: the survival of Baldwin and the Irwin-Gandhi pact-- Index.
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Whilst serving in the prestigious post of Viceroy of India between 1926 and 1931, Lord Irwin (later the Earl of Halifax) was kept informed about political events in Britain by frequent and lengthy letters from Cabinet Ministers, senior Conservative MPs and other prominent figures, such as the editor of The Times. Covering events from the General Strike of May 1926 to Irwin's negotiation of a pact with Gandhi in March 1931, these private and previously unpublished letters mix analysis and gossip. They offer a frank account from within the highest political circles of the Baldwin government of 1924-29 and the serious crisis in the Conservative Party which followed in 1929-31. There is also much commentary on major figures such as Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill and Ramsay MacDonald. Of great depth and richness, and emanating from experienced and shrewd political insiders, this collection is an essential historical source for British history between the two world wars.
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• Introduction : a Gandhian theory of text
• Printing cultures in the Indian Ocean world
• Gandhi's printing press : a biography
• Indian Opinion : texts in transit
• Binding pamphlets, summarizing India
• A Gandhian theory of reading : the reader as satyagrahi
• Conclusion : "no rights reserved"
• Appendix : pamphlets reprinted from Indian Opinion.

At the same time that Gandhi, as a young lawyer in South Africa, began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper. Gandhi's Printing Press is an account of how this project, an apparent footnote to a titanic career, shaped the man who would become the world-changing Mahatma. Pioneering publisher, experimental editor, ethical anthologist-these roles reveal a Gandhi developing the qualities and talents that would later define him. Isabel Hofmeyr presents a detailed study of Gandhi's work in South Africa (1893-1914), when he was the some-time proprietor of a printing press and launched the periodical Indian Opinion. The skills Gandhi honed as a newspaperman-distilling stories from numerous sources, circumventing shortages of type-influenced his spare prose style. Operating out of the colonized Indian Ocean world, Gandhi saw firsthand how a global empire depended on the rapid transmission of information over vast distances. He sensed that communication in an industrialized age was becoming calibrated to technological tempos. But he responded by slowing the pace, experimenting with modes of reading and writing focused on bodily, not mechanical, rhythms. Favoring the use of hand-operated presses, he produced a newspaper to contemplate rather than scan, one more likely to excerpt Thoreau than feature easily glossed headlines. Gandhi's Printing Press illuminates how the concentration and self-discipline inculcated by slow reading, imbuing the self with knowledge and ethical values, evolved into satyagraha, truth-force, the cornerstone of Gandhi's revolutionary idea of nonviolent resistance.
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When Gandhi as a young lawyer in South Africa began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper, Indian Opinion. In Gandhi's Printing Press Isabel Hofmeyr provides an account of how this footnote to a career shaped the man who would become the world-changing Mahatma.
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• Preface Introduction The Governors: Their Constitutional, Legal and Personal Standing The Montford Reforms and Dyarchy The Governors' Contribution to the Simon Commission The Dominion Status Declaration and First Round Table Conference Communal Tensions and the Detenu Issue Communism, Terrorism and Countermeasures The Challenge of Bardoli and Lessons Learnt The Direct Challenge of Congress, Gandhi and the Civil Disobedience Movement Conclusion
• Appendix 1: Instrument of Instructions Issued to Governors
• Appendix 2: Preamble to: The Consolidated Government of India Act,
• 1919
• Appendix 3: The Governors of British India and Secretaries of State During Lord Irwin's Viceroyalty:
• 3 April 1926-18 April
• 1931 Glossary Bibliography Author Index Subject Index.
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This book explores the nature and impact of the governor's role in developing government policy, and the consequent effect in British India. Analysing the governors' approaches towards and influence on Indian nationalism and other matters, it examines Lord Irwin's era due to its importance in India's constitutional development. The book explores the governors' contributions to British policy responses towards: the Montford Reforms and dyarchy; the Simon Commission; the Dominion Status Declaration; the First Round Table Conference; communal tensions; the detenu issue; communism, terrorism, Bardoli; Gandhi, civil disobedience and insurgency. It is introduced by an exposition of their constitutional, legal and personal standing in India.
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• List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Empire Recentered
• 1. Governing Colonial Peoples
• 2. Constructing Identities
• 3. Projecting Power: The Indian Army Overseas
• 4. Recruiting Sikhs for Colonial Police and Military
• 5. "Hard Hands and Sound Healthy Bodies": Recruiting "Coolies" for Natal
• 6. India in East Africa Conclusion List of Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Index.
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An innovative remapping of empire, "Imperial Connections" offers a broad-ranging view of the workings of the British Empire in the period when the India of the Raj stood at the center of a newly globalized system of trade, investment, and migration. Thomas R. Metcalf argues that India itself became a nexus of imperial power that made possible British conquest, control, and governance across a wide arc of territory stretching from Africa to eastern Asia. His book, offering a new perspective on how imperialism operates, emphasizes transcolonial interactions and webs of influence that advanced the interests of colonial India and Britain alike.Metcalf examines such topics as law codes and administrative forms as they were shaped by Indian precedents; the Indian Army's role in securing Malaya, Africa, and Mesopotamia for the empire; the employment of Indians, especially Sikhs, in colonial policing; and the transformation of East Africa into what was almost a province of India through the construction of the Uganda railway. He concludes with a look at the decline of this Indian Ocean system after 1920 and considers how far India's participation in it opened opportunities for Indians to be a colonizing, as well as a colonized people.
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• Introduction
• 1. Club rules
• 2. Around the club
• 3. The business of clubbing
• 4. Servants and staff
• 5. Race, class and the club
• 6. Women and the club
• 7. Postcolonial clubbing Glossary Bibliography Index
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In the club presents a comprehensive examination of social clubs across South Asia, arguing for clubs as key contributors to South Asia's colonial associational life and civil society. Using government records, personal memoirs, private club records, and club histories themselves, In the club explores colonial club life with chapters arranged thematically: the legal underpinnings of clubs; their physical locations and compositions; their financial health; the role of servants and staff as employees of clubs; issues of race and class in clubs; women's clubs; and finally clubs in their postcolonial milieus. This book will be critical reading for scholars of South Asia, graduate students, and intellectually engaged club members alike. -- .
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• Introduction
• 1. Ottoman colonial development: Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean
• 2. Agents of development: Jews, Arabs, and the middlemen of empire
• 3. The 'city of the future': Haifa, capital of British Palestine
• 4. Palestine's 'undeveloped estate': the exploitation of the Dead Sea
• 5. Toxic waters: contesting British development at Haifa and the Dead Sea
• Conclusions: the legacies of development
• Bibliography
• Index.
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Histories of Palestine in the pre-1948 period usually assume the emergent Arab-Zionist conflict to be the central axis around which all change revolves. In Land of Progress Jacob Norris suggests an alternative historical vocabulary is needed to broaden our understanding of the region's recent past. In particular, for the architects of empire and their agents on the ground, Palestine was conceived primarily within a developmental discourse that pervaded colonial practice from the turn of the twentieth century onwards. A far cry from the post-World War II focus on raising living standards, colonial development in the early twentieth century was more interested in infrastructure and the exploitation of natural resources. Land of Progress charts this process at work across both the Ottoman and British periods in Palestine, focusing on two of the most salient but understudied sites of development anywhere in the colonial world: the Dead Sea and Haifa. Weaving the experiences of local individuals into a wider narrative of imperial expansion and anti-colonial resistance, Norris demonstrates the widespread excitement Palestine generated among those who saw themselves at the vanguard of progress and modernisation, whether they were Ottoman or British, Arab or Jewish. Against this backdrop, Norris traces the gradual erosion during the mandate period of the mixed style of development that had prevailed under the Ottoman Empire, as the new British regime viewed Zionism as the sole motor of modernisation. As a result, the book's latter stages relate the extent to which colonial development became a central issue of contestation in the struggle for Palestine that unfolded in the 1930s and 40s.
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• Introduction / David R. Syiemlieh
• A note on the future of the present excluded, partially excluded and tribal areas of Assam / Robert N. Reid
• A note on the future of the hill tribes of Assam and the adjoining hills in a self-governing India / James P. Mills
• The future government of the Assam tribal peoples / Andrew G. Clow
• Some notes on a policy for the hill tribes of Assam / Philip F. Adams.

In the closing years of the British rule in India, a secret plan was conceived and discussed at the highest circles for a crown colony comprising the hill areas of North East India and the tribal areas of Burma. The plan could not be implemented largely because it came up for discussion in the closing years of the British rule over India. The plan has been referred to in many publications. What was of concern was that scholars have made reference to the Crown Colony Plan/Protectorate without reading the actual texts. For too long, secondary references have been used in writing about these plans as the original documents were not easily available for research. This book compiles the four British plans into a single volume. There is a connection between the four plans of Reid, Clow, Mills and Adams. All four were members of the Indian Civil Service, all four served in various capacities in the region and all officers left their accounts/notes perhaps not mindful that even if these were not implemented the notes would come up for discussion many years after their departure.
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