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Flaws In The Jewel

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Roderick Matthews re-examines British rule in India by concentrating on three central themes: its ability to defray the costs of its own maintenance; its impersonal and institutional qualities that gave it continuity and tenacity; and its commitment to a dual higher purpose-the uplift of the condition of the natives and the playing out of the superior moral character of the Englishman. At first these'virtues' gave the Raj viability vitality and focus. But over time they also proved to be weaknesses that could not be remedied. The Flaws in the Jewel shows how the British Raj was never able to overcome or even properly to acknowledge its many deficiencies. As a result British rule developed into an uncomfortable amalgam of imperial economics military autocracy and unfulfilled liberal aspirations.
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9788172239367
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HarperCollins
Author
Mathews Roderick
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