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The Making of India: The Untold Story of British Enterprise
Kartar Lalvani
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Description for The Making of India: The Untold Story of British Enterprise
Hardcover. Num Pages: 448 pages, Integrated photographs throughout. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3J; HBJF; HBLH; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
The story of The Making of India begins in the seventeenth century, when a small seafaring island, one tenth the size of the Indian subcontinent, despatched sailing ships over 11,000 miles on a five-month trading journey in search of new opportunities. In the end they helped build a new nation. The sheer audacity and scale of such an endeavour, the courage and enterprise, have no parallel in world history. This book is the first to assess in a single volume almost all aspects of Britain's remarkable contribution in providing India with its lasting institutional and physical infrastructure, which continues to ... Read more
The story of The Making of India begins in the seventeenth century, when a small seafaring island, one tenth the size of the Indian subcontinent, despatched sailing ships over 11,000 miles on a five-month trading journey in search of new opportunities. In the end they helped build a new nation. The sheer audacity and scale of such an endeavour, the courage and enterprise, have no parallel in world history. This book is the first to assess in a single volume almost all aspects of Britain's remarkable contribution in providing India with its lasting institutional and physical infrastructure, which continues to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472924827
SKU
V9781472924827
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Kartar Lalvani
Dr Kartar Lalvani OBE, FRPharmS, DSc, is founder and chairman of Vitabiotics, Britain's leading vitamin company. Born in Karachi in 1931, Kartar moved to Mumbai in 1947 and to London in 1956 to study pharmacy, before undertaking his doctorate at Bonn University. An honorary Professor at University of Franche Comte, Besancon, France, Kartar is also a philanthropist, private scholar and ... Read more
Reviews for The Making of India: The Untold Story of British Enterprise
Elegant, fair and extremely well written. I am delighted that the other side of the story is being told, as it deserves to be.
Martin Bell, British UNICEF Ambassador, former MP and war reporter
Remarkable for its scholarship, readability and message.
Andrew Roberts, historian, visiting Professor King's College London, author of Napoleon the Great
Absolutely excellent: ... Read more
Martin Bell, British UNICEF Ambassador, former MP and war reporter
Remarkable for its scholarship, readability and message.
Andrew Roberts, historian, visiting Professor King's College London, author of Napoleon the Great
Absolutely excellent: ... Read more