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The Illusion of Permanence: British Imperialism in India
By (Author) Francis G. Hutchins
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
15th February 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Political science and theory
Colonialism and imperialism
Asian history
325.320954
Paperback
236
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
312g
By combining the techniques of intellectual history and social psychology Professor Hutchins provides a new perspective for an understanding of the intellectual atmosphere of British imperialism in India in the nineteenth century. The author stresses that the illusion of permanence began some years before the Great Mutiny of 1857, although it was t