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Introduction 1
1 India Interpreted and Imagined: Culture, Intelligence and Policy-making in the Late-Colonial State 7
2 "The heart mesmerizes the head": Lord Irwin and the Nationalists, 1926-1931 39
3 The Problem of "Reliable Information": British-Indian Contacts in 1931 and 1932 87
4 Watching Gandhi: Predicting Indian Political Behavior, 1933-1935 123
5 Preventing an "unholy row": Indian Reform, Commercial Policy and Lancashire, 1933-1935 153
6 "The Men Who Know": Authority, Policy and the Future of the Empire in the Conservative Party 187
7 Provinces, Princes and Predictions: The Fate of the 1935 India Act 233
Conclusion 255
Bibliography 261
Index 271
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John Rison
reviewed Empire, Politics and the Creation of the 1935 India Act-Last Act of the Raj on January 25, 2010
Empire
A massive, indeed exhaustive, look at the Mughal empire--administration, military organisation, food, sexual mores, religious structure, class structure. It's massive, and obviously some parts are really not for the general reader (or not this one anyway). Along with his book The Mughal Throne I feel like I have a lot more sense of what/when/how the Mughal empire was, which is a start to a shamefully neglected part of my education. Highly informative and colourful, if not light reading.
Author feels very strongly that the empire was administratively speaking basically a disgrace and shambles after Akbar, and makes a case for this whose merits I am in no way equipped to judge, but it's fascinating to read. The empire was just too big, and the Mughals (except Akbar) too focused on their own enrichment--emperor after emperor presiding over a system of squeezing the poor till the pips squeaked, and effectively discouraging investment in the country's future by people at all levels in favour of personal enrichment by whatever means.
Also, Aurangzeb is still a dick.
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