TY - BOOK AU - Muldoon,Andrew TI - Empire, politics and the creation of the 1935 India Act : last act of the Raj SN - 9780754667056 AV - DS480.45 .M836 2009 U1 - 954.0358 22 PY - 2009/// CY - England PB - Ashgate KW - India KW - Government of India Act, 1935 KW - Conservative Party (Great Britain) KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Nationalism KW - Colonial administrators KW - Imperialism KW - Politics and government KW - 1919-1947 KW - Relations KW - Great Britain KW - Colonies KW - Administration KW - Colonial influence N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-270) and index; India interpreted and imagined : culture, intelligence and policy-making in the late-colonial state -- "The heart mesmerizes the head" : Lord Irwin and the nationalists, 1926-1931 -- The problem of "reliable information" : British-Indian contacts in 1931 and 1932 -- Watching Gandhi : predicting Indian political behavior, 1933-1935 -- Preventing an "unholy row" : Indian reform, commercial policy and Lancashire, 1933-1935 -- "The men who know" : authority, policy and the future of the empire in the Conservative Party -- Provinces, princes and predictions : the fate of the 1935 India Act ER -