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211 items
Textbooks (3 items)
A history of India - Kulke, Hermann, Rothermund, Dietmar, NetLibrary, Inc, 2004
Book | Essential reading | ELECTRONIC
Imperialism & orientalism: a documentary sourcebook - Harlow, Barbara, Carter, Mia, 1999
Book | Essential reading
‘Imperial circuits and networks: Geographies of the British Empire’ - Alan Lester
Article | Essential reading | ELECTRONIC
The Oxford history of the British Empire - Louis, William Roger, Canny, Nicholas P., Low,
Alaine M., 1998
Book | Essential reading | (volumes 2-5 also available)
Constitutional relations between Britain and India: the transfer of power 1942-7, Vol. 1:
The Cripps mission January-April 1942 - Nicholas Mansergh, 1970-71
Book | Essential reading
British overseas expansion and the history of the Commonwealth: a select bibliography -
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An economic history of India: from pre-colonial times to 1986 - Rothermund, Dietmar, 1988
Book | Essential reading
The economy of modern India: from 1860 to the twenty-first century - B. R. Tomlinson,
2013
Book | Essential reading
The debate on the rise of the British empire - Webster, Anthony, 2006
Book | Essential reading
A new imperial history: culture, identity, and modernity in Britain and the empire,
1660-1840 - Kathleen Wilson, 2004
Book | Essential reading
Week 2: European East India Companies and the contest for territorial
rule in Asia (6 items)
The Dutch seaborne empire, 1600-1800 - Boxer, C. R., 1973
Book | Further reading
The trading world of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660-1760 - K. N.
Chaudhuri, 2006
Book | Further reading
Trade and civilisation in the Indian Ocean: an economic history from the rise of Islam to
1750 - K. N. Chaudhuri, 1985
Book | Further reading
The Portuguese empire in Asia, 1500-1700: a political and economic history - Sanjay
Subrahmanyam, 2012
Book | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
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The scandal of empire: India and the creation of imperial Britain - Nicholas B. Dirks, 2008
Book | Further reading
British expansion in India in the 18th century: A historical revision - P. J. Marshall, 1975-02
Article | Further reading
The making of an imperial icon: the case of Warren Hastings - Marshall, P J, 1999-09-01
Article | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
‘Britain and the world in the 18th century: Britain and India’ - Peter Marshall, 2000
Article | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
‘Patrons, clients and empire: The subordination of indigenous hierarchies in Asia and
Africa’ - Colin Newbury, 2000
Article | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
Indian society and the making of the British Empire - Bayly, C. A., 1988
Book | Further reading
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The East India Company and religion, 1698-1858 - Carson, Penelope, 2012
Book | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
Christianity as an Arm of Empire: The Ambiguous Case of India under the Company, C.
1813-1858 - Ian Copland, 2006
Article | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
‘India, 1818-1860: The two faces of colonialism’ IN: The Oxford history of the British
Empire; Vol. 3, The nineteenth century - David Washbrook
Chapter | Further reading
The Indian Uprising of 1857-8: prisons, prisoners, and rebellion - Clare Anderson, 2007
Book | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
The Kanpur Massacres in India in the Revolt of 1857 - Barbara English, 1994
Article | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
"The Causes of the Indian Revolt" (1873), by Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan
Webpage | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
The great uprising in India, 1857-58: untold stories, Indian and British - Llewellyn-Jones,
Rosie, 2007
Book | Further reading
"Satan Let Loose upon Earth": The Kanpur Massacres in India in the Revolt of 1857 -
Rudrangshu Mukherjee, 1990
Article | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
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The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India: exploring transgressions, contests and diversities -
Biswamoy Pati, 2010
Book | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
Modern India: the origins of an Asian democracy - Brown, Judith M., 1994
Book | Further reading
‘Representing authority in Victorian India’ IN: The Invention of tradition - Bernard Cohn
Chapter | Further reading
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The political status of the Sikhs during the Indian national movement, 1935-1947 -
Effenberg, Christine, 1989
Book | Further reading
Britain and Indian nationalism: the imprint of ambiguity 1929-1942 - Low, D. A., 1997
Book | Further reading
Congress and the Raj: facets of the Indian struggle, 1917-47 - Low, D. A., 2004
Book | Further reading
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Communal politics under the Donoughmore Constitution 1931-1947 - Russell, Jane, 1982
Book | Further reading
Picture of Muslim Politics in India before Wavell’s Viceroyalty - Muhammad Iqbal Chawala
Document | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
Imperialism at bay, 1941 - 1945: the United States and the decolonization of the British
empire - Louis, W. R. (William Roger), 1977
Book | Further reading
Churchill's secret war: the British empire and the ravaging of India during World War II -
Mukerjee, Madhusree, 2010
Book | Further reading
Britain and decolonisation: the retreat from empire in the post-war world - Darwin, John,
1988
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The end of the British Empire: the historical debate - Darwin, John, Institute of
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Asking New Questions about the Partition of the Indian Subcontinent - Yasmin Khan,
2004-01
Article | Further reading
Burma's Struggle for Independence: The Transfer of Power Thesis Re-examined - Hugh
Tinker, 1986-7
Article | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
Shameful flight: the last years of the British Empire in India - Wolpert, Stanley A., 2006
Book | Further reading
‘How wars are got up in India’ IN: The Political Writings of Richard Cobden. Two Volumes -
Richard Cobden
Chapter | Further reading
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The Cambridge history of Southeast Asia: Vol.2: The nineteenth and twentieth centuries -
Tarling, Nicholas, 1992
Book | Further reading
Ceylon under British rule 1795-1932: with an account of the East India Company's
embassies to Kandy 1762-1795 - Lennox A. Mills, 2012
Book | Further reading
Communal politics under the Donoughmore Constitution 1931-1947 - Russell, Jane, 1982
Book | Further reading
Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism: its origins and development in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries - Wilson, A. Jeyaratnam, c2000
Book | Further reading
Coolitude: an anthology of the Indian labour diaspora - Carter, Marina, Khal, 2002
Book | Further reading
Slavery and Unfree Labour in the Indian Ocean - Marina Carter, 2006-09
Article | Further reading
Indian Labour, Labour Standards, and Workers' Health in Burma and Malaya, 1900-1940 -
Amarjit Kaur, 2006
Article | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
The encyclopedia of the Indian diaspora - Lal, Brij V., Reeves, Peter, Rai, Rajesh, c2006
Book | Essential reading
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A new system of slavery: the export of Indian labour overseas 1830-1920 - Tinker, Hugh,
1993
Book | Further reading
Indian plantation labour in Sri Lanka: aspects of the history of immigration in the 19th
century - Vanden Driesen, I. H., 1982
Book | Further reading
The long walk: Indian plantation labour in Sri Lanka in the nineteenth century - Vanden
Driesen, I. H., 1997
Book | Further reading
Indian convicted workers in Southeast Asia in the late 18th and early 19th centuries -
Anand Yang
Document | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
General (2 items)
The Tools of Imperialism: Technology and the Expansion of European Colonial Empires in
the Nineteenth Century - Daniel R. Headrick, 1979
Article | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
Telegraph (5 items)
Development of the Anglo-Indian telegraph - J.M. Adams, 1997
Article | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
Sir William O'Shaughnessy, Lord Dalhousie, and the Establishment of the Telegraph
System in India - Mel Gorman, 1971
Article | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
‘The telegraph to India and its extension to Australia and China’ - Sir C. T. Bright,
1866-01-01
Article | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
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British oceanic mail contracts in the age of steam - Freda Harcourt, 1988
Article | Further reading
Railways (2 items)
Building the railways of the Raj: 1850 - 1900 - Ian J. Kerr, 1995
Book | Further reading
Indian Famines and Peasant Victims: the Case of Bengal in 1943-44 - Paul R. Greenough,
1980
Article | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
Forestry and famine in the Chambal-Jamna Doab, 1879-1919 - Michael Mann, 2003
Book | Further reading
Churchill's secret war: the British empire and the ravaging of India during World War II -
Madhusree Mukerjee, 2010
Book | Further reading
Dearth, Famine, and Risk: The Changing Impact of Crop Failures in Western India,
1870-1920 - Michelle Burge McAlpin, 1979
Article | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
Poverty and famines: an essay on entitlement and deprivation - Amartya Sen, 1981
Book | Further reading
Indian railways and famine, 1875-1914: Magic wheels and empty stomachs - Stuart
Sweeney, 2008
Article | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
18: “Lands of many uses”: Empire and Environment in India (10 items)
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The problem of nature: environment, culture and European expansion - David Arnold, 1996
Book | Further reading
'Introduction' IN: Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism - Gregory A. Barton,
2002
Chapter | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
An early environmental debate: The making of the 1878 Forest Act - Ramachandra Guha,
1990
Article | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
British rule on Indian soil: North India in the first half of the nineteenth century - Michael
Mann, 1999
Book | Further reading
Forestry and famine in the Chambal-Jamna Doab, 1879-1919 - Michael Mann, 2003
Book | Further reading
Government, landlord, and peasant in India: agrarian relations under British rule,
1865-1935 - Dietmar Rothermund, 1978
Book | Further reading
Water in British India: The Making of a 'Colonial Hydrology' - Rohan D'Souza, 2006-07
Article | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
Conservation, Exploitation, and Cultural Change in the Indian Forest Service, 1875-1927 -
Benjamin Weil, 2006
Article | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
General (3 items)
Empire and information: intelligence gathering and social communication in India,
1780-1870 - C. A. Bayly, 1999
Book | Further reading
Colonialism and its forms of knowledge: the British in India - Bernard S Cohn, 1996
Book | Further reading
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“Census, Map Museum” IN: Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of
nationalism - Benedict Anderson
Chapter | Further reading
An anthropologist among the historians and other essays - Bernard S. Cohn, 1987
Book | Further reading
Britain and the Indian Caste System: Ethnographic Mapping and the Construction of the
British Census in India - Kevin Hobson
Webpage | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
Christianity as an Arm of Empire: The Ambiguous Case of India under the Company, C.
1813-1858 - Ian Copland, 2006
Article | Further reading | ELECTRONIC
‘Muslim societies in British India’ IN: Explorations in history of South Asia: essays in honour
of Dietmar Rothermund - Jamal Malik
Chapter | Further reading
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Ornamentalism: how the British saw their Empire - David Cannadine, 2002
Book | Further reading
‘Representing authority in Victorian India’ IN: The Invention of tradition - Bernhard Cohn
Chapter | Further reading
Buy & build: the advertising posters of the Empire Marketing Board - Stephen Constantine,
Great Britain, 1986
Book | Further reading
An empire on display: English, Indian, and Australian exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to
the Great War - Peter H Hoffenberg, NetLibrary, Inc, c2001
Book | ELECTRONIC
‘Narrating the Subcontinent in 1851: India at the Great Exhibition’ IN: The Great Exhibition
of 1851: new interdisciplinary essays - Lara Kriegel
Chapter
The absent-minded imperialists: empire, society, and culture in Britain - Bernard Porter,
2004
Book | ELECTRONIC
BFI Screenonline: Topical Budget 661-1: King Opens Empire Exhibition (1924)
Webpage | ELECTRONIC
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The Ancient Indus Valley and the British Raj in India and Pakistan
Website | An extremely well composed and maintained webpage with loads of material
on India’s earliest historic period, the Indus Valley Civilisation. Run by the American team
excavating several Harappan sites, this page contains not only latest results and
discoveries, but also a more general archive of films and pictures from 19th-20th century
India.
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Hansard 1803–2005
Website | Full documentation of the discussions in the HoC and HoL between 1803 and
2005, with search function
www.1947partitionarchive.org
Website
Edinburgh Papers in South Asian Studies | Publications | Centre for South Asian Studies
Webpage | The “Edinburgh Papers in South Asian Studies”, published by the Centre for
South Asian Studies at Edinburgh University. Focus on 20th century history and politics in
India.
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