The State During The British Raj

Imperial Governance In South Asia 1700 1947.

Ilhan Niaz author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press,Pakistan

Published:2nd Aug '25

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This book explores institutional development in British India which encompassed both the modernization of existing practices and arrangements (such as the bureaucracy and the military) and the importation of alien practices (such as the rule of law, representation, and mass politics). During the nearly two centuries of British political and military domination of South Asia, the institutional basis for India’s and Pakistan’s colonial democracies was laid. For varied reasons, South Asian elites have been reluctant to engage with the history of British India as a state that was very much the successor of the Timurid (Mughal) Empire and the precursor to the republics of contemporary South Asia.

ISBN: 9789697342204

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151 pages