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221. Britain and Japan Vol II

     Biographical Portraits

     By Ian Nish

     Series: Japan Library

     This second collection under the 'Biographical Portraits' title, incorporates a further 20 studies of key personalities, including Edmund Morel, pioneer railway builder in Meiji Japan, Alexander Shand, an important figure in the development of Japanese banking, Lafcadio Hearn, the great interpreter...

     Published February 16th 1997 by Routledge
222. Landlord Power and Rural Indebtedness in Colonial Sind

     By David Cheesman

     Investigates the alliance between the British administration and the Muslim landed magnates who dominated the countryside and provides valuable insights into the emergence of the elite's governing Pakistan today....

     Published November 26th 1996 by Routledge
223. Mongolia in Transition

     Old Patterns, New Challenges

     By Ole Bruun, Ole Odgaard

     Squeezed between powerful neighbours, for decades Mongolia played the role of buffer state. Its full independence in 1990 offered new opportunities for both economic growth and the restoration of Mongolian identity. But with a huge land area, poor infrastructure and a small population, the new...

     Published October 9th 1996 by Routledge
224. John Bullion's Empire

     Britain's Gold Problem and India Between the Wars

     By G. Balachandran

     Study of the impact of Britain's economic and financial crises on currency and monetary policy-making in India between the wars, analysing colonial policies during Anglo-US efforts to reconstruct the international financial system and Britain's struggle to restore the pre-eminence of sterling and...

     Published September 2nd 1996 by Routledge
225. Asian Forms of the Nation

     Edited by Stein Tonnesson, Hans Antlov

     Asian forms of the nation have rarely been seen as independent, alternative models. Among today's leading theoreticians, there is a growing tendency to take Asia seriously, and to include Asian examples in the general discussion. The aim of the present collection is to build on and reinforce this...

     Published September 2nd 1996 by Routledge
226. Poor Relations

     The Making of a Eurasian Community in British India, 1773-1833

     By Christopher J. Hawes

     The sixty years between 1773 and 1833 determined British paramountcy in India. Those years were formative too for British Eurasians. By the 1820s Eurasians were an identifiable and vocal community of significant numbers particularly in the main Presidency towns. They were valuable to the...

     Published July 3rd 1996 by Routledge
227. Khizr Tiwana, the Punjab Unionist Party and the Partition of India

     By Ian Talbot

     First biography of Khizr Tiwana, the Unionist Premier of the Punjab during the climacteric period 1942-47. The Punjab formed the heartland of a future Pakistan, hence the subcontinent's destiny rested on the clash between Khizr and Jinnah over the region's unity vs Muslim separatism....

     Published April 18th 1996 by Routledge
228. Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India

     Japanese Perspectives

     By Peter Robb, Kaoru Sugihara, Haruka Yanagisawa

     The first systematic attempt to introduce a full range of Japanese scholarship on the agrarian history of British India to the English-language reader. Suggests the fundamental importance of an Asian comparative perspective for the understanding of Indian history....

     Published April 10th 1996 by Routledge
229. Building Japan 1868-1876

     By Richard Henry Brunton

     Series: Japan Library

     Personal account of one of the Westerners who helped build modern Japan (see also study by Pedlar - also available from Curzon Press)....

     Published January 16th 1995 by Routledge
230. Muslims and Missionaries in Pre-Mutiny India

     By Avril Ann Powell

     Focuses on the period leading up to the Indian Mutiny of 1857....

     Published January 16th 1995 by Routledge