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India Conquered and Unconquered: The Chaos of Empire and the End of British power in India

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Duration: 0:48:38 | Added: 27 Mar 2018
Jon Wilson speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 16 May 2017

Histories of the British empire in India often present it as a stable and effective form of state power and a coherent ideology. Drawing on the argument of his recent book, India Conquered. Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire, Jon Wilson argues in contrast that the British never built a stable state in India. Their power was fractious and anxious, limited in scope but prone to unreasonable violence. Focusing on the late C19th and C20th in his paper, Dr Wilson will argue that we need to see the shift from imperial power to a nation state as a far more radical break than historians currently tend to suggest.

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