The Making of India - The Untold Story of British Enterprise

The story of The Making of India begins in the seventeenth century, when a small seafaring island, one tenth the size of the Indian subcontinent, despatched sailing ships over 11,000 miles on a five-month trading journey in search of new opportunities. In the end they helped build a new nation. The sheer audacity and scale of such an endeavour, the courage and enterprise, have no parallel in world history. This book is the first to assess in a single volume almost all aspects of Britain's remarkable contribution in providing India with its lasting institutional and physical infrastructure, which continues to underpin the world's largest democracy in the twenty-first century.

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• Authors: Kartar Lalvani, Lalvani Kartar
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 30.09.2017, delayed
• EAN: 9781472951205
• ISBN: 978-1-4729-5120-5
• No. of pages: 464
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, India, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, HISTORY / Asia / South / India