... Coupland Reginald “D plan” Tegart “Plan D” Tegart Tegart Charles Assyrians massacre of Iraq League of Nations Ottoman Empire Peel Report 1939 White Paper Peel Commission partition Arab states British rule Despite its apparent demise in 1939, partition survived the war and reemerged most...

...This book has attempted to shed light on the overall impact of British rule on property rights in mandate Palestine in two ways. First, it challenged the assumption of a monolithic and consistent policy towards landed property. Second, it challenged the assumption that the impact of British...

...Figure 2.1 Harper's Weekly, July 3, 1897, vol. 41, no. 205, cover/p. 1. (Image courtesy of the Library of Congress.) The American colonies began cooperating politically against British rule even before they adopted the Declaration of Independence. In 1774, delegates from twelve...

... of universal narratives. Two important historiographical developments have occurred since the 1970s: firstly, scholars have switched their focus from All-India to provincial politics; and, secondly, there has been a revision of established views concerning the ‘high politics’ of the endgame of British rule...

.... It addresses the following question: why and how did British rule itself affect the imperatives towards the reconstruction of a traditional India? The received historiography has been guilty of too eclectic an approach to the discourse(s) of colonialism, and also of overemphasizing the significance...

... that Britain's occupation was temporary, its intention being to ‘rescue’ Egypt from ‘disorder’ and the Egyptian throne from a nationalist movement, dubbed a ‘military mutiny’, and then to ‘retire’. There was in reality neither general agreement nor clearly conceived policy. British rule in Egypt...

... distortion Aryan Indo Aryan Indo Portuguese Indo Aryan Hebrew Pauwels Jan L Bosman Nerina Conradie Jac Van der Merwe Henderik Schutte Gerrit Bell Arthur J Coloured Dutch Jespersen Otto Jespersen’s Cycle Hock Hans Henrich Afrikaans Afrikaans as a symbol of white emancipation under British rule...

... Council Act of 1861 Jones E L Morley Minto reforms South Asian history project at Cambridge Brown J M Madras Government British rule colonial rule law and order land tenure revenue social reform education nationalist movement In 1757, Clive's victory at Plassey (in Bengal) began the process...

...This chapter surveys economic trends from 1857 to 1947 of fully-fledged British rule. Topics covered include population, per capita income, sectoral output growth, urbanization, literacy, and infant mortality. British Raj colonial era economy free trade home charges laissez faire and free...

... tariff’ argument shadow wage rate of industrial labour Timberg T tropical exports industrial development fiscal policy monetary policy British rule colonial rule We have seen in the last chapter that, despite nationalist assertions to the contrary, the Raj at its best did something to promote...

...British rule left legacies which have profoundly molded the perceptions and actions of the Indian political and bureaucratic elite concerning Indian economic problems. This chapter summarizes conclusions on these aspects. It then assesses the impact of the Raj on Indian society and politics...

... Vancouver 1992 Tajikistan Zoroastrians in Uzbekistan Zoroastrians in Yazidis Yezidis Gandhi Parinaz M Kanga Jamsheed G Out marriage Identity Communalism Zoroastrian tradition Global Survey Parsis Bombay India religion independence British rule communalism India in general, and Bombay...

... in the much more complex circumstances of the post-Imperial global economy of the last three decades. It is suggested that British rule did not leave a substantial legacy of wealth, health, or happiness to the majority of the subjects of the Commonwealth. Britain British Empire ‘periphery’ definition...

... many Muslims experienced the transition to modernity. British policies in the Muslim dependencies shaped their political development. Muslim attitudes to the British varied according to their particular Islamic understandings and to their particular experience of British rule. Overall strategies...

.... It shows how he handled the businesses he inherited from his grandfather and how his search for a guru led him to his meeting with Gandhi. From there, the book turns to Jamnalal’s unwavering support for Gandhi and his various movements against the British rule, including the non-cooperation movement...

...This chapter focuses on British rule and the notion of Omani marriage in colonial Zanzibar. It explores policy debates in Zanzibar that revolve around marriage registration and descent categories. British officials attempted to garner approval from select Arab elite members in Zanzibar or to adjust...

...This chapter discusses several notable Eurasians whose graves can be found in the Hong Kong Cemetery. The Eurasian minority during the first three decades of the British rule were composed mostly of children born to Chinese mothers and European fathers. The discussion also highlights...

...This chapter reviews the status of Hebrew in Palestine under British rule. It specifically tries to recover the foundational narrative of English learners, aspirants, Jewish clerks, and translators to the cultural cachet of English. It tells stories that highlight the devoted nature of protesters...

... the subcontinent. It was also expedient, especially in the early phase of British rule, to draw on existing indigenous traditions in law, sometimes religious, and sometimes “customary.” The legal system was also affected by the Raj’s limited administrative capacity and by resource constraints. Borrowing from...

...This chapter examines the relationship between the form of British rule and several measures of postcolonial development and analyzes British colonial legacies. It provides an empirical analysis of the divergent developmental trajectories among former British colonies through a cross-national...