Table of Contents

1: 'To fly to India for gold': Early Contacts, 1583-1615
2: 'Infamous for their honest endeavours': Laying Foundations, 1615-1708
3: Conquest and Corruption: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1708-1815
4: 'The great ends we have in view': The East India Company as Paramount Power, 1815-1857
5: 'The devil's wind': The Great Indian Uprising, or Mutiny of 1857-1858
6: Lords of All They Surveyed? The Raj at its Zenith, 1858-1905
7: The Beginning of the End? Reform and Conflict, 1905-1919
8: Gandhi and the Fightback of Indian Nationalism, 1919-1939
9: 'Engine of War' or the Enemy Within? India, 1939-1945
10: 'Tryst with Destiny': Freedom and Partition, 1945-1947
Epilogue
Chronology
Sources for Quotations
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Denis Judd is Professor of British Imperial, Commonwealth, and Indian History, at the London Metropolitan University. He is the author of numerous books, including the best-selling Empire: The British Imperial Experience from 1865 to the Present (HarperCollins, 1996), which was second on the best selling London hardback list, and most recently, The Boer War (John Murray, 2002, paperback 2003). He has written radio documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and
the World Service, and has broadcast many times both as a presenter, consultant, and major interviewee for television and radio programmes: most recently for BBC TV Newsnight, BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves, Channel 4, ITV,
South African TV and for BBC Radio 4's Vestiges - the British Empire.