British Raj


The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
A Passage to India
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
Kim
The Far Pavilions
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)
The Jewel in the Crown (The Raj Quartet, #1)
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India
Zemindar
Loot
Smoke and Ashes (Sam Wyndham, #3)
Up the Country: Letters from India
Viceroys by Christopher LeeGreat Mutiny by Christopher HibbertEardley Norton by Suresh BalakrishnanAnu by Shabnam VasishtClive of India by Mark Bence-Jones
British Indian History
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Husain Haqqani
The military is Pakistan’s only institution inherited from the British Raj that has proved resilient and effective. ‘As the history of law, democracy, administration and education in Pakistan demonstrates, other British institutions in what is now Pakistan (and to a lesser extent India as well) failed to take root, failed to work, or have been transformed in ways that their authors would scarcely have recognized.
Husain Haqqani, Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State

If we are following the same colonial systems and procedures in Free India, are we not actually idealizing the colonial rule?
Meenakshi Sundaram V.R, Let's Transform India - First Things First

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