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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      March 2008
      March 1995
      ISBN:
      9781139053402
      9780521395472
      9780521589376
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521395472
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 260 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.342kg, 258 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
      Series:
      The New Cambridge History of India
      Collection:
      Cambridge Histories - Asian History
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
    Series:
    The New Cambridge History of India
    Collection:
    Cambridge Histories - Asian History
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    Ideologies of the Raj examines how the British sought to justify their rule over India. The author argues that two divergent strategies were devised to legitimate their authority: the one defined characteristics which the Indians shared with the British themselves, while the other emphasised qualities of enduring 'difference'. In the end, however, the differences predominated in the colonial view of India. Since the British constructed few explicit ideologies of empire, the author explores the workings of the Raj through the study of its underlying assumptions as revealed in policies and writings. Students of modern India and the British Empire will find Thomas Metcalf's book relevant and accessible.

    Reviews

    ‘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 Source: Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

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