Accidental Viceroy - Robert Lytton in India

This biography of Lord Robert Bulwer-Lytton, viceroy of India from 1876 to 1880, examines his troubled attempt to meet Britain's increasing internal and perceived external threats to its rule.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Conscripting a Poet
Chapter 2: Instructing and Dispatching a Viceroy
Chapter 3: The Rise of Racism
Chapter 4: Reaching India and Taking Charge
Chapter 5: The Imperial Assemblage: Lytton's Crescendo
Chapter 6: Famine
Chapter 7: "The Most Dangerous Man in India"
Chapter 8: Internal Problems
Chapter 9: Careers, Protests, and Clashes
Chapter 10: The Vernacular Press and Its Adversaries
Chapter 11: Russophobia
Chapter 12: The Rift with Salisbury
Chapter 13: The Second Anglo-Afghan War
Chapter 14: Resignation and Resentment
Chapter 15: Pursued from India
Chapter 16: Afterwards

About the author

Edwin Hirschmann is professor emeritus at Towson University.

Summary

This biography of Lord Robert Bulwer-Lytton, viceroy of India from 1876 to 1880, examines his troubled attempt to meet Britain's increasing internal and perceived external threats to its rule.

Product details

• Authors: Edwin Hirschmann
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781498598521
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9852-1
• No. of pages: 140
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Indischer Subkontinent, HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, 1876 Famine, British Empire, Empress of India, imperialism, India, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Second Anglo-Afghan War, Colonialism & imperialism, Politics & government, Asian History, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), HISTORY / Asia / South / General