British India

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Scope of FIBIS' Interest

The main focus of FIBIS activities is the ‘sub-continent’ of India but we are also interested in all areas and activities of the British in South Asia including the following between the founding of the East India Company in 1599 to Indian Independence in 1947:

Also included are the activities of the East India Company in London and St. Helena.

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External links

Historical books online

The FIBIS Google Books Library
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History of India

Some general histories available as online books. Please note the dates that these have been written in order to be aware that some of the content may be outdated or incompatible with modern sensibilities.

Volume I [1670-1688]; Vol. II [1688-1757]; Vol. III [1757-1785]. Links to pdf downloads Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India.
The View of Hindoostan. Volume II Eastern Hindoostan Contents, Index. Part of the same Archive.org digital file. Also available Volume II Heidelberg University Library version.
The History of the British Empire in India...1844 to 1862: Forming a Sequel to Thornton's History of India Vol 1, by Lionel James Trotter (1866) Google Books, Vol 2 (Archive.org)
India and the Frontier States of Afghanistan, Nipal and Burma by J Talboys Wheeler 1899 Printed in New York. Volume I, Volume II Includes a supplementary chapter in Volume II, but otherwise the text is probably the same.
  • Volume 1 From the earliest times to the sixth century B.C., by R.C. Dutt.
  • Volume 2 From the sixth century B.C. to the Mohammedan conquest, including the invasion of Alexander the Great, by V.A. Smith.
  • Volume 3 Mediaeval India from the Mohammedan conquest to the reign of Akbar the Great, by S. Lane-Poole.
  • Volume 4 From the reign of Akbar the Great to the fall of the Moghul empire, by S. Lane-Poole
  • Volume 5 The Mohammedan period as described by its own historians, by Sir H.M. Elliot.
  • Volume 6 From the first European settlements to the founding of the English East India company, by Sir W.W. Hunter
  • Volume 7 The European struggle for Indian supremacy in the seventeenth century, by Sir W.W. Hunter.
  • Volume 8 From the close of the seventeenth century to the present time, by Sir A.C. Lyall.
Also by this author The Rise and Expansion of the British Dominion In India by Sir Alfred Lyall 1920, reprinted 5th edition 1910, first published 1894. Archive.org.
  • Volume 9 Historic accounts of India by foreign travellers, classic, oriental, and occidental, by A.V.W. Jackson
  • The Cambridge History of India published 1922-1932.
Volume V British India 1497-1858 edited by H H Dodwell 1928
Volume VI The Indian Empire 1858-1918. With chapters on the development of Administration 1818-1858 edited by H H Dodwell 1932
Earlier volumes in the series All Archive.org.
The Economic History of India in the Victorian Age: From the Accession of Queen Victoria in 1837...by Romesh Dutt. Original title was India in the Victorian Age; an Economic History of the People 1904 [first] edition, 3rd edition 1908 Archive.org.
[Volume 1] The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province and Kashmir by Sir James Douie 1916. [Volume 2] Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, Sikkim by L S S O’Malley 1917. [Volume 3] The Madras Presidency with Mysore, Coorg and the Associated States by Edgar Thurston 1913. [Volume 4] Burma by Sir Herbert Thirkell White 1923 Archive.org
1973 reprint of 1917 original with "About this book" by Jamna Das Akhtar. Archive.org.
  • Sedition Committee 1918 Report Superintendent Government Printing, Calcutta. 1918. Archive.org. There was also a Secret Edition ref: IOR/V/26/262/1 British Library. One of the aims of the Committee was to “investigate and report on the nature and extent of the criminal conspiracies connected with the revolutionary movement in India.” See previous item for the book by James Campbell Ker.
Sedition Committee 1918 Appendices Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.
Indian Unrest, 1919-20 by Alfred Nundy, Bar-at Law 1921. Archive.org
Revolution or Evolution by Alfred Nundy, Bar-at Law 1922. Archive.org
Editions available on Archive.org, A Archive.org, B. Dates of publication as catalogued may be incorrect. Statistics noted to 1937.
Editions available on HathiTrust Digital Library, A, HathiTrust B. Note HathiTrust pages can be rotated.
Report on the Administration of India for the year 1916-17 Pdf download Digital Repository of GIPE-Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune India].
On Archive.org, many being mirror versions from from Digital Library of India.
1917-18; 1919; 1920;
1921-22; 1922-23 (1923), Contents, Index; 1923-24 (1924), Contents, Index; 1924-25; 1925-26 (1926) Contents, Index; 1926-27; 1927-28; 1928-29; 1929-30;
1930-1931 (1932), Contents, Index; 1931-32; 1932-33; 1933-34; 1934-35. Additional files are also available for these years.
  • The Indian Recorder was intended to be a reference book for the period. Archive.org, including Digital Library of India Collection.
April-June 1932; July-September,1932; October-December,1932; January- March 1933.
Years Of Destiny India 1926-1932 by J C Coatman 1932. Reprinted in 1985 as India The Years Of Struggle For Freedom. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.
The Indian Riddle by John Coatman 1932. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title: The Indian Riddle: a Solution Suggested
India The Road To Self Government by John Coatman 1942. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.
  • Must England lose India? [The Nemesis of Empire] by Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Osburn 3rd edition December 1930 (first published May 1930]. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Archive.org Lending Library edition possibly better print quality. This book was banned in India. The author had been in the RAMC.
  • Indian chapters about events in India in 1930 commencing with “Flight to India” page 547The Way of a Transgressor by Negley Farson 1936 Archive.org Lending Library. The India pages continue to page 593. 2nd file, different edition with differing page numbers, India chapters commence page 582 Archive.org. Negley Farson Wikipedia. The author was then an American foreign correspondent, one of the most renowned of his day.
  • "The Surrender to Swaraj" Chapter XVI page 296 The Surrender of an Empire by Nesta H. Webster 1931 Archive.org
  • The English in India: A Problem of Politics by Sir John A R Marriott 1932. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. A history.
  • Rise And Fulfilment Of British Rule In India by Edward Thompson and G T Garratt 2nd edition 1935, first published 1934. Archive.org. A history.
  • Turmoil & Tragedy in India 1914 and After by Lt Gen Sir George MacMunn 1935. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.
  • The White Sahibs in India by Reginald Reynolds 1937. Full title  : The White Sahibs in India. An examination of British rule in India. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.
  • Budget For 1941-1942 Archive.org
  • The Indian Problem: Report on the Constitutional Problem in India by R Coupland 1944. Originally published in three separate volumes 1942, 1943, 1943, submitted to the Warden and Fellows of Nuffield College Oxford.
The Indian Problem 1833-1935 digital page 2
Indian Politics 1936-1942 digital page 162
The Future of India digital page 514. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
Asia In The European Age 1498-1955 by Michael Edwardes 1961. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
The West in Asia, 1850-1914 by Michael Edwardes 1967. Archive.org Lending Library. Covers European powers and Great Britain, including India, Burma, Malaya, North Borneo.
  • The British Imperial Experience by Robert A Huttenback 1966. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes chapters on India.
  • The Illusion of Permanence : British Imperialism in India by Francis G Hutchins 1967. Contents. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
  • A trilogy about the rise and decline of Queen Victoria’s Empire by James, who became, Jan Morris, published 1968-78. Includes chapters about India. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library unless otherwise indicated.
Heaven's Command : an Imperial Progress by James Morris 1980, first published 1973.
Pax Britannica : the Climax of an Empire by James Morris 1968. File 2.
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat by James Morris 1979, first published 1978. Archive.org. File 2 1978. File 3 1980.
Churchill, Cripps, and India, 1939-1945 by R J Moore (Robin James) 1979. Archive.org Lending Library. Stafford Cripps Wikipedia.
Escape from Empire : the Attlee government and the Indian problem by R J Moore (Robin James) 1983. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Clement Attlee (Wikipedia) was UK Prime Minister from 1945, having been leader of the Labour Party from 1935 and Deputy Prime Minister under Churchill in a wartime coalition government from 1942.
  • The Transfer of Power 1942-7. Editor in Chief Nicholas Mansergh, Editor Penderel Moon. Published in 12 volumes 1970- 1983 HMSO. Title page includes the additional title Constitutional Relations between Britain and India. Unpublished documents from the India Office Records.
v. 1. The Cripps Mission, January-April 1942.--v. 2. Quit India, 30 April-21 September 1942.--v. 3. Reassertion of authority, Gandhi's fast, and the succession to the Viceroyalty, 21 September 1942-12 June 1943.--v. 4. The Bengal famine and the new Viceroyalty, 15 June 1943-31 August 1944.--v. 5. The Simla Conference, background and proceedings, 1 September 1944-28 July 1945.--v. 6. The post-war phase: new moves by the Labour Government, 1 August 1945-22 March 1946.--v. 7. The cabinet mission, 23 March-29 June 1946.--v. 8. The interim government, 3 July-1 November, 1946.--v. 9. The fixing of a time limit, 4 November 1946-22 March 1947.--v. 10. The Mountbatten Viceroyalty, formation of a plan, 22 March-30 May 1947.--v. 11. The Mountbatten Viceroyalty announcement and reception of the 3 June plan 31 May-7 July 1947.--v. 12. The Mountbatten Viceroyalty, princes, partition, and independence, 8 July-15 August 1947.
Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4, Vol. 5, Vol. 6, Vol. 7, Vol. 8, Vol. 9, Vol. 10, Vol. 11, Vol. 12 Archive.org Lending Library.
Article "The Raj Reconsidered: British India’s Informal Empire and Spheres of Influence in Asia and Africa" by James Onley. Asian Affairs, vol. XL, no. I, March 2009 socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk.

References

  1. ↑ Kennedy papers s-asian.cam.ac.uk; s-asian.cam.ac.uk link 2;
    Page 263 Delusions and Discoveries: India in the British Imagination, 1880-1930 by Benita Parry, Michael Sprinker

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