The history of British India from 1805 to 1835 (Volume I)

By Horace Hayman Wilson

How was India governed, won, and argued over? Empires turn on small decisions. In Volume I of The History of British India from 1805 to 1835, Horace Hayman Wilson delivers a clear-eyed colonial India chronicle rooted in official record and contemporary report. Under East India Company rule, policy was hammered out between Calcutta and London, in council minutes, dispatches, and parliamentary scrutiny. Spanning 1805-1835 British India, this scholarly history volume traces the pressures that shaped British colonial administration: revenue, diplomacy, military expansion, and the ideas that drove imperial policy in India. The result is detailed, steady narrative with room for consequence. Valued as an academic history reference and a primary source for scholars, this classic history reprint also rewards the general reader who wants the history of the British Empire in its working parts rather than its slogans. Wilson, writing from within nineteenth century India scholarship, captures the texture of administration as well as the arguments used to defend it. Its measured prose and firm chronology make it dependable for citation, yet readable enough for the armchair historian and classic-history collectors too. For students of institutions and power, it makes a bracing counterpoint to later syntheses such as the Cambridge History of India, and it belongs on the shelf of any serious collector of imperial-era classics. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9353707714
• ISBN13: 9789353707712
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"