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India Conquered written by Jon Wilson - Book Review
'India Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire' is the first general history of British India for over twenty years, getting under the skin of the empire to show how British rule really worked. Oscillating between paranoid paralysis and moments of extreme violence, it was beset by chaos and chronic weakness.
Jon Wilson argues that this contradictory character was a consequence of the Raj’s failure to create long-term relationships with Indian society and claims that these systemic problems still affect the world’s largest democracy as it navigates the twenty-first century.
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