Showing Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India by Lawrence James

Paperback. Pub Date: 1998-11-1 Pages: 722 Publisher: Little Brown This is the brilliantly told story of one of the wonders ofthe modern world - how in less than a hundred years the Britishmade themselves masters of India They ruled it for. anotherhundred. departing in 1947. leaving behind the independent statesof India and Pakistan. British rule taught Indians to seethemselves as Indians and its benefits included railways. hospitals. law and a universal language. But the Raj. outwardly somonolithic and magnificent. was always precarious. Its masters knewthat it rested ultimately on the goodwill of Indians This is a newlook at a subject rich in incident and character;. the India of theRaj was that of Clive. Kipling. Curzon and Gandhi and a host oflesser known others RAJ will provoke debate. . for it sheds newlight on Mountbatten and the events of 1946-47 which ended anexercis...