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Thomas Munro : The origins of the colonial state and his vision of empire
Stein Burton
Thomas Munro : The origins of the colonial state and his vision of empire - Delhi Oxford University Press 1989 - 374p
Ssummary:
Thomas Munro was among the most important of a handful of British thinker-administrators who shaped imperial rule in India in the early nineteenth century. He was the creator of the revenue and administrative system of two vast territories that were controlled by colonial authority from Madras and Bombay. This intellectual biography of Munro draws for the first time on the full range of Munro Papers, assesses Munro's historical assumptions and assertions, and reveals Munro's network of personal relations with the British intellectual and political aristocracy that collectively shaped Britain's policy in India.
9780195623314
1. Politics & Government - Tamil Nadu - India2. Governors
954.820000 / STE
Thomas Munro : The origins of the colonial state and his vision of empire - Delhi Oxford University Press 1989 - 374p
Ssummary:
Thomas Munro was among the most important of a handful of British thinker-administrators who shaped imperial rule in India in the early nineteenth century. He was the creator of the revenue and administrative system of two vast territories that were controlled by colonial authority from Madras and Bombay. This intellectual biography of Munro draws for the first time on the full range of Munro Papers, assesses Munro's historical assumptions and assertions, and reveals Munro's network of personal relations with the British intellectual and political aristocracy that collectively shaped Britain's policy in India.
9780195623314
1. Politics & Government - Tamil Nadu - India2. Governors
954.820000 / STE