The making of India : the untold story of British enterprise /
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 aud...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Continuum,
2016.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 433 pages : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 414-424) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781472924827 1472924827 |