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Book Synopsis
Thomas Metcalf's fascinating study examines the ways the British sought to legitimate their rule over India.

Trade Review
'It is a tribute to the range of Metcalf's scholarship that he can write illuminatingly and with assured authority on so many different aspects of British India.' P. J. Marshall, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Britian and India in the eighteenth century; 2. Liberalism and empire; 3. The creation of difference; 4. The ordering of difference; 5. Coping with contradiction; 6. Epilogue: Raj, nation, empire.

Ideologies of the Raj

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 3/2/1995 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780521395472, 978-0521395472
      ISBN10: 052139547X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Thomas Metcalf's fascinating study examines the ways the British sought to legitimate their rule over India.

      Trade Review
      'It is a tribute to the range of Metcalf's scholarship that he can write illuminatingly and with assured authority on so many different aspects of British India.' P. J. Marshall, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

      Table of Contents
      1. Introduction: Britian and India in the eighteenth century; 2. Liberalism and empire; 3. The creation of difference; 4. The ordering of difference; 5. Coping with contradiction; 6. Epilogue: Raj, nation, empire.

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