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India Conquered and Unconquered: The Chaos of Empire and the End of British power in India
Histories of the British empire in India often present it as a stable and effective form of state power and a coherent ideology. Drawing on the argument of his recent book, India Conquered. Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire, Jon Wilson argues in contrast that the British never built a stable state in India. Their power was fractious and anxious, limited in scope but prone to unreasonable violence. Focusing on the late C19th and C20th in his paper, Dr Wilson will argue that we need to see the shift from imperial power to a nation state as a far more radical break than historians currently tend to suggest.
Date:
16 May 2017, 14:00
Venue:
St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details:
Fellows' Dining Room
Speakers:
Speaker to be announced
Organising department:
Asian Studies Centre
Organiser:
Dr Faisal Devji
Organiser contact email address:
asian@sant.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Maxime Dargaud-Fons
