Ideologies of the Raj / Thomas R. Metcalf. [electronic resource]
Ideologies of the Raj / Thomas R. Metcalf. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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English
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1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
Introduction : Britain and India in the Eighteenth Century -- Liberalism and empire -- The creation of difference -- The ordering of difference -- Coping with contradiction -- Epilogue: Raj, nation, empire.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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England
Date Published
1995.
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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,...
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Ideologies of the Raj / Thomas R. Metcalf. [electronic resource]
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The new Cambridge history of India ; III, 4
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English
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74VKVZRzp3Xg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVZRzp3Xg
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0-511-00694-2
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954.03
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991023970911002626
