Pacific Affairs · 1988 · 38 citations · 0 references
HumanitiesHistoryPolitical ScienceHistoriographyModern HistoryPolitical HistoryColonial AdministrationColonial GovernanceColonialismPolitical HistoriographySouth Asian HistorySouth Asian StudiesColonial IndiaColonial Indian HistoryColonial South AsiaHistory Of GovernanceIndian HistoriographyModern Indian HistoryModern South Asian HistoryModern State Formation
How the British ruled India and why the colonial administrative tradition is still prevalent there today form the themes of this original study which breaks with the conventional historiography of 20th-century India by attempting to show continuities across 1947, and their consequences for the modern state.