A Short History of British India

Originally published in 1889, this book is a surprisingly sensitive description of India before and during British rule.

E. S. Carlos (Author)

9781107621831, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 22 August 2013

124 pages
19.8 x 12.9 x 0.7 cm, 0.13 kg

Originally published in 1889 as part of the Pitt Press Series and intended for use by the British middle and upper classes to prepare them for colonial administration, this book is a surprisingly sensitive description of India before and during British rule. Carlos, in conjunction with some 'old Indian' friends', describes life under British rule, the geography and key religions of India and important historical moments both before and after the British conquest. This book is useful as a record of the colonial mindset near the turn of the twentieth century, and will be of value to anyone interested in the history of the British Empire and historical British attitudes to rule.

1. India - name and physical features
2. Peoples of India
3. Religions of India
4. The Indian campaign of Alexander the Great
5. Mohammedan conquest of India
6. The Moghul emperors
7. The Portuguese in India
8. The East India Company - commercial period
9. First struggle between the French and the English in the Karnatic - Labourdonnais and Dupleix
10. Acquisition of Bengal - Clive - battle of Plassey
11. Second struggle between the French and the English in the Karnatic - Lally
12. Settlement of Bengal
13. Warren Hastings - war with Haidar Ali and Tipu
14. Trial of Warren Hastings
15. Settlements of the land revenue
16. Wars with Tipu Sultan
17. Marquis Wellesley - first Marhatta war
18. Administration of Lord Minto
19. Second Marhatta war
20. Indian administration 1813–33
21. First Burmese war
22. The Kabul disaster
23. Wars in Gwalior and Sind
24. The Sikh wars
25. Administration of Lord Dalhousie
26. The mutiny of 1857
27. Little wars of India
28. Second and third Burmese wars
29. India since the mutiny
30. Indian literature.

Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]