The British in India: Imperialism or Trusteeship?

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Martin D. Lewis

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LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE Gossard Memorial Library

THE

BRITISH IN INDIA

Imperialism or Trusteeship?

PROBLEMS IN EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION UNDER THE EDITORIAL DIRECTION OF

Ralph W. Greenlaw* and Dwight E. Lee j Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Why Did It Collapse? f The Pirenne Thesis — Analysis, Criticism, and Revision* The Coronation of Charlemagne — What Did It Signify? * The Gregorian Epoch -— Reformation, Revolution, Reaction? * Innocent

III — Vicar

of Cfirist or Lord of the World? f

The Crusades — Motives and Achievements* The Renaissance — Medieval or Modern? * Machiavelli — Cynic, Patriot, or Political Scientist? * The Reformation — Material or Spiritual? * The Character of Philip

II — The

Problem of Moral Judgments in History*

Protestantism and Capitalism — The Weber Thesis and Its Critics* The Origins of the English Civil War — Conspiracy, Crusade, or Class Conflict? * The Revolution of 1688 — Whig Triumph or Palace Revolution? t Peter the Great — Reformer or Revolutionary? f The Greatness of Louis

XIV — Myth

or Reality? *

The Eighteenth-Century Revolution — French or Western? f The Influence of the Enlightenment on the French Revolution — Creative, Disastrous, or Non-Existent? * The Economic Origins of the French Revolution — Poverty or Prosperity? * Metternich, the “Coachman of Europe” — Statesman or Evil Genius? * The Industrial Revolution in Britain — Triumph or Disaster? * 1848 —

A

Napoleon

Turning Point? *

III —

Buffoon, Modern Dictator, or Sphinx? f

Otto von Bismarck —

A

Historical Assessment*

The “New Imperialism” — Analysis of Late Nineteenth-Century Expansion*

A

Free Churcfi in a Free State? — The Catholic Church, Italy, Germany, France, 1864-1914f

The Dreyfus Affair —

A

Tragedy of Errors? f

The Outbreak of the First World War — Who Was Responsible? * The Russian Revolution and Bolshevik Victory — Why and How? * The Versailles Settlement — Was It Doomed to Failure? * The Ethiopian Crisis — Touchstone of Appeasement? * The Nazi Revolution — Germany’s Guilt or Germany’s Fate? * The British in India — Imperialism or Trusteeship? f The Outbreak of the Second World War — Design or Blunder? f The Cold War — Ideological Conflict or Power Struggle? f

Other volumes in preparation

THE BRITISH IN INDIA Imperialism or Trusteeship ?

Edited with an introduction by

Martin Doming Lewis %\

SIR

GEORGE

WILLIAMS

UNIVERSITY, QUEBEC

D. C. HEATH AND COMPANY • BOSTON

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