Caroline Keen: 2 books
An Imperial Crisis in British India
The Manipur Uprising of 1891
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
In 1891 a major anti-British revolt erupted in the northeast Indian princely state of Manipur after a dangerously miscalculated attempt by the Government of India to assert its authority in the wake of a palace coup. Following the murder of a number of senior officers, a substantial British force...
Princely India and the British
Political Development and the Operation of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
By the late nineteenth century the traditional royal status of Indian princes was under threat. Weakened by treaties concluded with the East India Company, the rulers were subject to a concentrated campaign by British officials to turn palace life into a westernised construct of morality, accountability...