A double-edged sword: communications and imperial control in British India

D Headrick - Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung, 2010 - JSTOR
Britain introduced telegraphs in its colonial empires in order to tighten its control over its
subjects. Thus, the British in India used their new telegraph lines to repress the Indian Mutiny of …

Colonialism and its forms of knowledge: The British in India

B Cohn - The New Imperial Histories Reader, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
… were to teach their own officials Indian languages. The knowledge of languages … British to
classify, categorize, and bound the vast social world that was India so that it could be controlled

Imperial Health in British India, 1857-1900

R Ramasubban - Disease, Medicine and Empire, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
… of control by the Crown from the East India Company … India be held by a British force'.The
unilateral military orientation of health policy in British India was also facilitated by the imperial

[图书][B] The scandal of empire: India and the creation of imperial Britain

NB Dirks - 2006 - degruyter.com
… and then president of the board of control for the Company, was brought up for … —both for
the East India Company in relation to the English state and for British imperial activity in relation …

The imperial idea: ideas of honor in British India

S Patterson - Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 2007 - muse.jhu.edu
… Since the Raj relied so heavily on symbolism and the appearance of control, Anglo-Indian
society reserved its harshest criticism for those who questioned Britain’s motives in …

[图书][B] Inglorious empire: What the British did to India

S Tharoor - 2018 - books.google.com
… Indians could hardly impose retaliatory tariffs on British goods, since the British controlled
the … British India occupied a unique position in the imperial trade and payments system. From …

Imperialism in decline? Tendencies in British imperial policy between the wars

J Darwin - The Historical Journal, 1980 - cambridge.org
… The discussion of British policy towards the dominions, Egypt and India that follows is …
may have been reconciled to apparently radical changes in the structure of imperial control. …

Strategies and doctrines of imperial defence: Britain and India, 1919–45

P Barua - The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
… The importance of colonial India to British imperial defence … the colonial Indian military
had upon its British counterpart. … over control of the Indian army to the British government and …

'Small wars' and 'imperial policing': The British army and the theory and practice of colonial warfare in the British empire, 1919–1939

TR Moreman - Journal of Strategic Studies, 1996 - Taylor & Francis
India British troops and various locally-enlisted armed forces sought to contain nationalist
resistance to imperial … under War Office control were primarily employed on 'imperial policing' …

Imperial geographies of home: British domesticity in India, 1886–1925

A Blunt - Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
imperial geographies of home in British India by focusing on advice within household guides
for British wives and mothers in their management of Indianimperial power and control on …