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The British in Benares: A Nineteenth Century Colonial Society*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Bernard S. Cohn
Bernard S. Cohn
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University of Rochester
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The diffusion of British institutions, ideas, and values and the spread of the English language and of British peoples are among the major events in modern history. The study of the effects of this diffusion in the New World, Africa, and Asia in shaping political institutions in these regions has attracted many scholars, but the systematic and analytic study of the British themselves and of the societies and cultures they built overseas in their African and Asian colonies has thus far been neglected, except in the memoir and travel literature.

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , January 1962 , pp. 169 - 199
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1962

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