Empire, politics, and the creation of the 1935 India Act
Subtitle: last act of the Raj
By: Andrew Muldoon.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780754667056
Subjects: India; Conservative Party (Great Britain) -- History -- 20th century; Nationalism -- India -- History -- 20th century; Colonial administrators -- India -- History -- 20th century; Imperialism -- History -- 20th century; India -- Politics and government -- 1919-1947; India -- Relations -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Relations -- India; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration -- History -- 20th century; India -- Colonial influence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: India interpreted and imagined : culture, intelligence, and policy-making in the late-colonial state; title: "The heart mesmerizes the head" : Lord Irwin and the nationalists, 1926-31; title: The problem of "reliable information" : British-Indian contacts in 1931 and 1932; title: Watching Gandhi : predicting Indian political behavior, 1933-35; title: Preventing an "unholy row" : Indian reform, commercial policy, and Lancashire, 1933-1935; title: "The men who know" : authority, policy, and the future of the empire in the Conservative Party; title: Provinces, princes, and predictions : the fate of the 1935 India Act.