The illusion of permanence : British imperialism in India /
By combining the techniques of intellectual history and social psychology Professor Hutchins provides a new perspective for an understanding of the intellectual atmosphere of British imperialism in India in the nineteenth century. The author stresses that the illusion of permanence began some years...
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| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[2015]
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| Serier: | Princeton legacy library.
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- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- I. Evangelicism, Utilitarianism, and the Origin of the Idea of a Just Rule
- II. The Right Sort of Conduct: India's Attraction for Victorian Englishmen
- III. Concepts of Indian Character
- IV. The Response to the Mutiny of 1857 and the Abolition of the East India Company
- V. British Indian Society: A Middle Class Aristocracy
- VI. Technology, Force, Democracy
- VII. Nation and Empire
- VIII. The Attempted Orientalization of British Rule
- IX. The Response to the Nationalist Challenge
- X. The Fragility of Imperial Confidence
- Bibliography
- Index