Empire, Politics and the Creation of the 1935 India Act : Last Act of the Raj (Hardcover)

Introduction; Chapter 1 India Interpreted and Imagined: Culture, Intelligence and Policy-making in the Late-Colonial State; Chapter 2 The heart mesmerizes the head: Lord Irwin and the Nationalists, 1926?1931; Chapter 3 The Problem of Reliable Information: British-Indian Contacts in 1931 and 1932; Chapter 4 Watching Gandhi: Predicting Indian Political Behavior, 1933?1935; Chapter 5 Preventing an unholy row: Indian Reform, Commercial Policy and Lancashire, 1933?1935; Chapter 6 The Men Who Know: Authority, Policy and the Future of the Empire in the Conservative Party; Chapter 7 Provinces, Princes and Predictions: The Fate of the 1935 India Act; conclusion Conclusion;