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Servants of the empire : the Irish in Punjab, 1881-1921 /
"Punjab, 'the pride of British India,' attracted the cream of the Indian Civil Service, many of the most influential of whom were Irish. Some of these men, along with Irish viceroys, were inspired by their Irish backgrounds to ensure security of tenure for the Punjabi peasant, besides...
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Manchester ; New York : New York :
Manchester University Press ; distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,
2011.
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| Edice: | Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
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Obsah:
- Pt. I. Context. Introduction : the scattered Irish
- India and Punjab in the late nineteenth century
- The Indian public service
- Who were they?
- Straits settlements, Malaya and Ceylon
- pt. II. The frontier. Waziristan : warriors and administrators
- Pro-consul and the Viceroy
- Frontiersman and the diplomat
- pt. III. Land and infrastructure. Land : the Irish dimension
- Canal colonies
- Louis Dane and land bills
- Irish engineers and Punjab's infrastructure
- pt. IV. Politics and society. Lansdowne and Fitzpatrick
- Punjab affairs are Simla affairs
- Dane and O'Dwyer : conciliation and provocation
- pt. V. Conclusions.