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Muldoon, Andrew.

Empire, politics and the creation of the 1935 India Act : Last act of the Raj / Andrew Muldoon. - Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009. - viii, 278 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-270) and index.

India interpreted and imagined : culture, intelligence and policy-making in the late-colonial state
"The heart mesmerizes the head" : Lord Irwin and the nationalists, 1926-1931
The problem of "reliable information" : British-Indian contacts in 1931 and 1932
Watching Gandhi : predicting Indian political behavior, 1933-1935
Preventing an "unholy row" : Indian reform, commercial policy and Lancashire, 1933-1935
"The men who know" : authority, policy and the future of the empire in the Conservative Party
Provinces, princes and predictions : the fate of the 1935 India Act.

ISBN: 9780754667056 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0754667057 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9780754696438 (ebk.) 075469643X (ebk.)

LCCN: 2009017746

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA981127 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015351179 Uk

Subjects--Corporate Names:
India. Government of India Act, 1935.
Conservative Party (Great Britain)--History--20th century.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Nationalism--History--India--20th century.
Colonial administrators--History--India--20th century.
Imperialism--History--20th century.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
India--Politics and government--1919-1947.
India--Relations--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Relations--India.
Great Britain--Colonies--Administration--History--20th century.
India--Colonial influence.

LC Class. No.: DS480.45 / .M836 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 954.0358 MUL