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Pages: 584
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-25 - Publisher: PublicAffairs
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Language: en
Pages: 463
Pages: 463
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-25 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster
For the century and a half before the Second World War, Britain dominated the Indian subcontinent. Britain’s East India Company ruled enclaves of land in Sout
Language: en
Pages: 576
Pages: 576
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-10 - Publisher:
'The core of the book is a virtuoso takedown of cherished shibboleths of Raj mythology' Financial Times 'A forceful reminder that Britain has its own messy past
Language: en
Pages: 241
Pages: 241
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-16 - Publisher: Columbia University Press
A classic work in postcolonial studies, Masks of Conquest describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and illuminates the discipli
Language: en
Pages: 288
Pages: 288
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-15 - Publisher: Reaktion Books
Although tea had been known and consumed in China and Japan for centuries, it was only in the seventeenth century that Londoners first began drinking it. Over t