Название: A History of British India
Автор(ы): Hayden J. Bellenoit
Издательство: THE GREAT COURSES 2017
Страниц: 233
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 22 MB
Shaped by its richly diverse cultural heritage and by immensely significant historical events, the Indian subcontinent holds a unique place in world civilization. Perhaps no era is more relevant to our understanding of how present-day India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh came to be than the nearly two centuries of British rule, beginning in 1757, during which India emerged as the most valuable colony of any empire in history. This was a period of seminal transformation and change—for the subcontinent, for Britain, and for the world.
