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Keeping the jewel in the crown : the British betrayal of India / Walter Reid.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reid, Walter, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- India--Politics and government--1919-1947.
- India.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations, photographs
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh, [Scotland] : Birlinn, 2016.
- Summary:
- This is a stimulating and controversial account of Britain's role in Indian independence after World War II.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Maps
- Principal Events
- Political Framework
- 1 Introduction
- The End of Empire
- The Argument
- 2 The Back story
- The Reasons for Empire
- The Indian Background
- The Cultural Divide
- 3 The Morley-Minto Reforms
- 4 The Impact of the First World War
- 5 The Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms
- India after the War
- Montagu
- Chelmsford
- Montagu-Chelmsford
- The Thinking behind the Reforms
- The Reaction in India
- The Reaction in Britain
- 6 Gandhi
- 7 Amritsar
- 8 Rufus Isaacs, First Marquess of Reading
- 9 British Politics between the Wars
- 10 Lord Irwin
- 11 F.E. Smith and the Simon Commission
- 12 Empire, Dominions and Commonwealth
- Birth of Dominion
- How Independent Were the Dominions?
- Commonwealth: the End of Empire?
- 13 The Irwin Declaration
- 14 Simon and Irwin Collide: the Political Reaction
- 15 Reaction to the Declaration in India
- 16 The Gandhi-Irwin Pact
- 17 The Round-table Conferences
- 18 Willingdon
- 19 Confusion within the Conservative Party
- Baldwin and the St George's Election
- Pressure Groups
- 20 Looking Behind Churchill's Words
- 21 The Background to the India Bill: Civil War in the Conservative Party
- 22 Churchill and the Privileges Committee
- 23 The Legislation
- 24 After the Act
- 25 Rab Butler
- 26 Linlithgow: A New Viceroy for the New Act
- 27 Indian Politics
- 28 Policy and the War
- 29 Amery
- 30 Military Developments
- 31 Stafford Cripps
- Mission One (1939)
- Moscow (1940-42)
- 32 Preparation for the Mission of 1942
- 33 Cripps in India
- Deadlock
- American Influence
- 34 Failure of the Mission
- 35 Quit India
- 36 Government Policy Post-Cripps
- 37 Wavell
- 38 Wavell as Viceroy
- 39 The Simla Conference.
- 40 A New World
- Collapse of Morale
- The Red Peril
- Official Thinking after the Second World War
- 41 India in 1945
- 42 The Cabinet Mission
- 43 After the Failure of the Mission
- Wavell under Attlee
- 44 The Last Viceroy
- 45 Mountbatten's Instructions
- 46 The View from Whitehall
- 47 The Princely States
- 48 The Final Plan
- 49 Commonwealth and Independence
- 50 Endgame
- Drawing Lines on the Map
- Last Days
- After the Awards
- 51 Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Illustrations.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 25, 2016).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781495652172
- 1495652173
- OCLC:
- 1243544094
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