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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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Autor principal: Hutchins, Francis G. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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