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 | #1959463 in Books |  Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |  2006-04-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.39 x5.82 x8.36l,1.30 | File type: PDF | 416 pages

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||3 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting perspective, but fails to tell the story|By T. Heck|The author makes very compelling statements about British Imperialism, its development and its impacts on both the Indian subcontinent and domestically. I appreciated learning more about that historical perspective. The book does not do a good job of telling the story of the British in India; I still know little|From Publishers Weekly|Dirks, dean of the faculty and a professor of anthropology and history at Columbia, sets out to dismantle the traditional explanation that Britain's empire in India was, in the famous words of Victorian historian J.R. Seeley, acquired "in

Many have told of the East India Company’s extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one of these men—Warren Hastings—was put on trial by Edmund Burke, it brought the Company’s exploits to the attention of the public. Through the trial and after, the British government transformed public un...

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