In a penetrating account of the evolution of British intelligence gathering in India, CA Bayly
shows how networks of Indian spies, runners and political secretaries were recruited by the …

The 1935 Government of India Act was arguably the most significant turning point in the
history of the British administration in India. The intent of the Act, a proposal for an Indian …

This is the first book to appear on British intelligence operations based in both India and
London, which defended the Indian Empire against subversion during the first two decades …

At the end of the First World War, Government of India officials and Indian nationalist
politicians began to recognise the need for an organized communications network that could …

Kingsley Martin's critique of imperialism was born out of socialist rationalism and long
overseas lecture tours. But in Leonard Woolf, his friend and periodic replacement at the …

The Imperial Security State explores an important but under-explored dimension of British
imperialism-its information system and the close links between military knowledge and the …

A handful of Englishment controlled the vast British Indian empire for nearly 200 years.
Throughout this period, the colonials who ran the empire (viceroys, bureaucrats, military …

Indian Arrivals 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire explores the rich and complicated
landscape of intercultural contact between Indians and Britons on British soil at the height of …

This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from the
recent proliferation of specialized scholarship on the period of India's transition to …

This monograph deals with the social and political context of commercial activity in early
modern India-a period during which Eastern India (and Bihar) experienced the transition to …