British rule in India

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / by Amar Farooqui -- End of the Second Maratha War -- The First Lord Minto (1807-1813) -- Deliberate destruction of Indian industries and trade -- The war with Nepal -- Some other achievements of Lord Hastings -- The Third Maratha War -- Lord Amherst (1823-1828) -- Lord William Bentinck (1828-1835) -- Charter Act of 1833 -- National education under British rule -- The First Afghan War -- Annexation of Sindh -- Ellenborough's action against Indian rulers -- The First Sikh War -- The Second Sikh War -- The Second Burmese War -- Usurpations -- Before the 1857 revolution -- Greased cartridges - "Fat in the fire" -- Reprisals -- Jhansi and Oudh -- Punjab -its importance and reaction -- On the march to Delhi -- Delhi - its emperor and people -- First battles for Delhi -- March of the revolution and its repercussions -- Slaughter of innocents -- Fall of Delhi -- Delhi after its fall -- Lucknow "Oudh" Rohilkhand -- Bihar -- Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi -- Ineffectual outbreaks in the south -- Oudh's last bid for freedom -- Tatya Tope's final efforts -- A retrospective view of the revolution -- After 1857 - England's reaction.

"interested in this nation's political history. In 1929, Pandit Sunderlal's original work in four volumes, Bharat Mein Angrezi Raj, was banned by the British because of its fearless criticism of their rule in India. In sharp contrast to the histories of India written by British historians, who stressed that India was in a state of arrested development before the British arrived, Pandit Sunderlal produced a work that celebrated India's past. In 1960, the Government of India brought out this history in two parts: How India Lost Her Freedom and British Rule in India. The former details how British traders penetrated the sub-continent and established the foundation of their rule. The latter covers the period from 1805 (Second Maratha War), a turning point for the East India Company, to 1858, when the East India Company had to cede control to the British Crown. It details how the British acquired territories by sly and dishonourable treaties and how their rule led to extremely large-scale economic exploitation. It painstakingly traces the history of the deliberate destruction of Indian industry and the plundering that went on under the guise of development."--Provided by publisher.