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The Proudest Day is an account of the end of the Raj. Anthony Read and David Fisher put the events of 1947 into perspective, telling the whole story in detail from its beginnings more than a century earlier. Their narrative takes a look at many of the events and personalities involved, especially the three charismatic giants - Gandhi, Nehru, and Jinnah - who dominated the final, increasingly bitter thirty years. Meanwhile, a succession of British...
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No empire in history built so variously as the British empire in India. The buildings there attest to the richness of an imperial presence that lasted -- from the first trading settlement to the end of the Raj--some three hundred years. The attitude of the British to India was compounded partly of arrogance, but partly also of homesickness, and it shows in their constructions. Georgian terraces were adapted to tropical conditions, Victorian railway...
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"An enigma within a paradox might best describe the nature of British rule in India. The Indian Empire was the 'jewel in the crown', Queen Victoria was Empress of India and her successors similarly raised to the purple. India was the lodestone of the British Empire and her loss regarded as an irretrievable blow to Britain's status as a world power. The British in India, first as adventurers and traders, and finally as rulers through the India Office...
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