On The Practicability Of An Invasion Of British India And On The Commercial And Financial Prospects And Resources Of The Empire

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Excerpt from On the Practicability of an Invasion of British India: And on the Commercial and Financial Prospects and Resources of the Empire In the French Budget for the present year We find that an army of nearly men, or '(adding the different establishments similar to those which are probably included in the Russian statement) say 300, 000 men, costs 190, 000 000 of francs, or about 8, 000, 0001. Sterling. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

second spans the period between that conflict and the Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878-80, while the third terminates with the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907, which effectively marked the end of the confrontation.

A provocative examination of how the British colonial experience in India was shaped by chronic unease, anxiety, and insecurity.

This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian romances of 1880-1900, E.M. Forster's The Life to Come and Leonard Woolf's writings show how the appeal to civility had a significant effect on the constitution of colonial subject-hood and reveals 'civility' as an ideal trope for the ambivalence of imperial power itself.