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Fine in Fine jacket. Octavo. "This concise, elegantly written history of the British experience in India holds interest for both experts and general readers. Judd has total command of his material, with interesting stories to tell at every turn."-Foreign Affairs. 280 pp.
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As new in as new jacket. An as new, first edition with complete number line in an as new dust jacket. xiii, 234 pages, 41 pages of plates: illustrations. Octavo. "Denis Judd tells the fascinating story of the remarkable British impact upon India, capturing the essence of what the Raj really meant both for the British and their Indian subjects. All aspects of this long and controversial relationship are discussed: the first tentative contacts between East and West, the foundation of the East India Company in 1600, the Victorian Raj in all its pomp and splendour, Gandhi's revolutionary tactics to overthrow the Raj and restore India to the Indians, and Lord Mountbatten's 'swift surgery of Partition' in 1947, creating the independent Commonwealth states of India and Pakistan."--worldcat From the private collection of noted attorney, sailor, and sometime cowboy, Joshua L. Soske Jr.