Making of India

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The story of this book begins in the seventeenth century, when a small sea-faring 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.

subjects: Infrastructure (economics),  India, history, british occupation, 1765-1947,  India, civilization,  India, intellectual life,  India, social conditions,  History,  Civilization,  British influences,  Intellectual life,  Social conditions,  British Occupation of India (1765-1947) fast (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01352145