The first ever history of India to explore the benefits - institutional, political and civil - of British Colonial Rule on the subcontinent. The story of The Making of India begins in the seventeenth century, when a small seafaring island, one tenth the size of the Indian subcontinent, despatched sailing ships over 11,000 miles on a five-month trading journey in search of new opportunities. In the end they helped build a new nation. The sheer audacity and scale of such an endeavour, the courage and enterprise, have no parallel in world history. This book is the first to assess in a single…mehr
The first ever history of India to explore the benefits - institutional, political and civil - of British Colonial Rule on the subcontinent. The story of The Making of India begins in the seventeenth century, when a small seafaring island, one tenth the size of the Indian subcontinent, despatched sailing ships over 11,000 miles on a five-month trading journey in search of new opportunities. In the end they helped build a new nation. The sheer audacity and scale of such an endeavour, the courage and enterprise, have no parallel in world history. This book is the first to assess in a single volume almost all aspects of Britain's remarkable contribution in providing India with its lasting institutional and physical infrastructure, which continues to underpin the world's largest democracy in the twenty-first century.
Dr Kartar Lalvani OBE, FRPharmS, DSc, is founder and chairman of Vitabiotics, Britain's leading vitamin company. Born in Karachi in 1931, Kartar moved to Mumbai in 1947 and to London in 1956 to study pharmacy, before undertaking his doctorate at Bonn University. An honorary Professor at University of Franche Comté, Besançon, France, Kartar is also a philanthropist, private scholar and historian.
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Foreword by Professor Ram Jethmalani, MP Preface: Time to recognise the positive side of the imperial coin 1 The Argument: Balance and Perspective 2 The East India Company: Ambitions to Rule the Waves 3 Routes to India 4 Ships and Shipbuilding: The Age of Steam 5 Ports, Harbours and Lighthouses 6 Canals and Water Supplies 7 Roads: Leaving No Stone Unturned 8 Mail Services, the Telegraph and the Telephone 9 Railways: A Network is Built with Incredible Speed 10 Locomotive Workshops and the Manufacture of Rolling Stock 11 Bridge Building 12 Foundries, Iron and Steel: The Rise of Indian Self-Sufficiency 13 Extraction Industry Development 14 Electricity Generation 15 India Adopts the Tram 16 The Textile and Jute Industries 17 Sugar, Tea and Coffee Industries 18 Early Air Services 19 Establishing an Administrative Infrastructure 20 Education and Health: Engineering and Medical Colleges 21 Indian Heritage and Culture: Conservation, Restoration and Appreciation 22 Diaspora: Migration and Opportunity Appendix A: Milestones in the Making of India Appendix B: Biographies: British Engineers in India Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
Foreword by Professor Ram Jethmalani, MP Preface: Time to recognise the positive side of the imperial coin 1 The Argument: Balance and Perspective 2 The East India Company: Ambitions to Rule the Waves 3 Routes to India 4 Ships and Shipbuilding: The Age of Steam 5 Ports, Harbours and Lighthouses 6 Canals and Water Supplies 7 Roads: Leaving No Stone Unturned 8 Mail Services, the Telegraph and the Telephone 9 Railways: A Network is Built with Incredible Speed 10 Locomotive Workshops and the Manufacture of Rolling Stock 11 Bridge Building 12 Foundries, Iron and Steel: The Rise of Indian Self-Sufficiency 13 Extraction Industry Development 14 Electricity Generation 15 India Adopts the Tram 16 The Textile and Jute Industries 17 Sugar, Tea and Coffee Industries 18 Early Air Services 19 Establishing an Administrative Infrastructure 20 Education and Health: Engineering and Medical Colleges 21 Indian Heritage and Culture: Conservation, Restoration and Appreciation 22 Diaspora: Migration and Opportunity Appendix A: Milestones in the Making of India Appendix B: Biographies: British Engineers in India Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
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Bracingly controversial ... I defy anyone with a modicum of open-mindedness not to read The Making Of India and concede, however grudgingly, that [the author] just might have a point Daily Mail
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