Making of India
Subtitle: The Untold Story of British Enterprise
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9781472924827
Subjects: Infrastructure (economics); India, history, british occupation, 1765-1947; India, civilization; India, intellectual life; India, social conditions
Description: The story of this book begins in the seventeenth century, when a small sea-faring island, one tenth the size of the Indian subcontinent, despatched sailing ships over 11,000 miles on a five-month trading journey in search of new opportunities. In the end they helped build a new nation. The sheer audacity and scale of such an endeavour, the courage and enterprise, have no parallel in world history. This book is the first to assess in a single volume almost all aspects of Britain s remarkable contribution in providing India with its lasting institutional and physical infrastructure, which continues to underpin the world s largest democracy in the twenty-first century.