Using recently released official and private papers, 'Raj' is the magnificently recounted story of one of the wonders of the modern world. Provoking debate and shedding much new light on incidents as varied as the Mutiny and the Great Game, and figures as controversial as Clive and Mountbatten.
Lawrence James' book is not only a tale of resistance, heroism and wars won against the odds, but of how millions of Indians collaborated with their new rulers and made possible the government of so many by so few.
Contents:
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
Part 1. The Company Ascendant 1740-84
1. Prologue: Mughal Twilight
2. A Glorious Prospect: Robert Clive's Wars 1740-55
3. New Strength from Conquest: Bengal 1755-65
4. An Empire Within an Empire: British Reactions to Indian Conquests
Part 2. The Conquest of India 1784-1856
1. No Retreat: Grand Strategy and Small Wars 1784-1826
2. The Cossack and the Sepoy: Misadventures of an Asian Power 1826-42
3. The 'cast of a Die': The Sind and the Sikhs 1843-49
4. Robust Bodies and The Obstinate Minds: An Anatomy of Conquest
Part 3. The Raj Consolidated 1784-1856
1. European Gentlemen: India's New Ruling Class
2. Utility and Beneficence: British Visions and Indian Realities
3. Gradual and Mild Correction: Taxing and Policing India
4. A Hearty Desire: Sex, Religion and the Raj
Part 4. The Mutiny 1857-59
1. The Sahib Paid No Attention: The Raj Imperilled January-July 1857
2. Very Harrowing Work: The Raj Resurgent, August 1857-January 1859
3. Like Elephants on Heat: Anglo-Indian Reactions to the Mutiny
Part 5. Triumphs and Tremors 1860-1914
1. Low and Steady Pressure: The Exercise of Absolute Power
2. Not as Relics But as Rulers: India's Princes
3. We Are British Subjects: Loyalty and Dissent 1860-1905
4. Not Worth the Candle: Wars, Real and Imaginary 1854-1914
5. Never at Peace: India's Frontiers and Armies
6. Conciliatory Sugar Plums: Compromise and Coercion 1906-14
Part 6. Disturbances and Departures 1914-48
1. True to Our Salt: India and the First World War 1914-18
2. Strong Passion: Amritsar and After 1919-22
3. This Wonderful Land: Anglo-Indian Perspectives
4. A Great Trial of Strength: Power Struggles 1922-42
5. A Bad Knock: India at War January-July 1942
6. An Occupied and Hostile Country: India at War August 1942-August 1945
7. What Are We Here For? September 1945-February 1947
8. Was It Too Quick?: Dividing and Departing March-September 1947
Epilogue
Bibliography
Notes
Index
