Muldoon, Andrew.

Empire, politics and the creation of the 1935 India Act : last act of the Raj / Andrew Muldoon. - Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009. - viii, 278 p. ; 25 cm.

India interpreted and imagined : culture, intelligence and policy-making in the late-colonial state -- "The heart mesmerizes the head" : Lord Irwin and the nationalists, 1926-1931 -- The problem of "reliable information" : British-Indian contacts in 1931 and 1932 -- Watching Gandhi : predicting Indian political behavior, 1933-1935 -- Preventing an "unholy row" : Indian reform, commercial policy and Lancashire, 1933-1935 -- "The men who know" : authority, policy and the future of the empire in the Conservative Party -- Provinces, princes and predictions : the fate of the 1935 India Act.

9780754667056 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0754667057 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9780754696438 (ebk.) 075469643X (ebk.)


Nationalism--History--India
Colonial administrators--History--India
Imperialism--History


India--Politics and government
India--Relations--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Relations--India.
Great Britain--Colonies--Administration--History
India--Colonial influence.

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