A Viceroy's India
Author: Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston
Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston
Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles Clive Bigham Mersey (Viscount)
Publisher: London, Murray
Published: 1949
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mark Bence-Jones
Publisher: London : Constable
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Is A Book About The Viceroys From `Clemency` Canning To Moutbatten; About The Men Who Held An Office Which, In Its Combination Of Responsibility And Splendour Is Without Parallel In Modern History.
Author: Christopher Lee
Publisher: Constable
Published: 2018-08-30
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 1472124731
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Between 1858 and 1947, twenty British men ruled millions of some of the most remarkable people of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the Indian Mutiny to the cruel religious partition of India and the newly formed and named Pakistan, the Viceroy had absolute power, more than the monarch who had sent him. Selected from that exclusive class of English, Scottish and Irish breeding, the aristocracy, the Viceroys were plumed, rode elephants, shot tigers. Even their wives stood when they entered the room. Nevertheless, many of them gave everything for India. The first Viceroy, Canning, exhausted by the Mutiny, buried his wife in Calcutta before he left the subcontinent to die shortly afterwards. The average Viceroy lasted five years and was granted an earldom but rarely a sense of triumph. Did these Viceroys behave as badly as twenty-first century moralists would have us believe? When the Raj was over, the legacy of Empire continued, as the new rulers slipped easily into the offices and styles of the British who had gone. Being 'British' was now a caste. Viceroys is the tale of the British Raj, the last fling of British aristocracy. It is the supreme view of the British in India, portraying the sort of people who went out and the sort of people they were on their return. It is the story of utter power and what men did with it. Moreover, it is also the story of how modern British identity was established and in part the answer to how it was that such a small offshore European island people believed themselves to have the right to sit at the highest institutional tables and judge what was right and unacceptable in other nations and institutions.
Author: Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780283993978
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 470
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Edwin Hirschmann
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-12-11
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 1498598536
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Age of Imperialism reached its peak in the late nineteenth century. The British Empire was the foremost colonial power, and the keystone was India. However, even at its peak, the British Raj was beset by internal rivalries and fears of external threats. In 1875, British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli chose as viceroy Lord Robert Bulwer-Lytton, diplomat and poet, the son of an old friend, but someone with no Indian experience. Lytton accepted reluctantly—and never enjoyed it. He was under the thumb of the Secretary of State for India, the shrewd and ambitious Third Marquess of Salisbury, during most of his four years in India. During his viceroyalty, Lytton had to deal with shifting British policies, a major famine, the freedom-loving people of Afghanistan, an entrenched civil service, and a rising generation of patriotic Indians. In the 1880 elections, Disraeli’s Conservatives were defeated by Gladstone’s Liberals, and Lytton resigned.