The Illusion of Permanence : : British Imperialism in India / / Francis G. Hutchins.
By combining the techniques of intellectual history and social psychology Professor Hutchins provides a new perspective for an understanding of the intellectual atmosphere of British imperialism in India in the nineteenth century. The author stresses that the illusion of permanence began some years...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1967 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
1912 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- I. Evangelicism, Utilitarianism, and the Origin of the Idea of a Just Rule
- II. The Right Sort of Conduct: India's Attraction for Victorian Englishmen
- III. Concepts of Indian Character
- IV. The Response to the Mutiny of 1857 and the Abolition of the East India Company
- V. British Indian Society: A Middle Class Aristocracy
- VI. Technology, Force, Democracy
- VII. Nation and Empire
- VIII. The Attempted Orientalization of British Rule
- IX. The Response to the Nationalist Challenge
- X. The Fragility of Imperial Confidence
- Bibliography
- Index