Download or read book Power, Profit and Politics: Volume 15, Part 3 written by Christopher Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book were originally published together as a special issue of the Journal of Modern Asian Studies, released in July 1981. They are reprinted here in their entirety. The essays are concerned with the ways in which Britain's imperial connection with India impinged upon the political, economic and social development of the subcontinent in the first half of the twentieth century.