The Empire of the Raj

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2. The Empire of the Raj: The Definition, Delineation and Dynamics of the Indian Sphere

   1. The Empire of the Raj: The Definition, Delineation and Dynamics of the Indian Sphere

      • Robert J. Blyth

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3. The Indian Sphere Before 1914

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   2. ‘A Glacis of Varying Breadth and Dimension’: Persia and the Persian Gulf, c. 1850–1914

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   3. ‘A Conflict of Directions’: The British Indian Agency at Zanzibar, c. 1856–1883

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   4. ‘He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tune’: Aden and Somaliland, c. 1869–1914

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4. The Indian Sphere, 1914–1937

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   2. ‘A Colony for India’: The Struggle for East Africa, c. 1914–1924

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   3. ‘Basrah is as Near to Delhi as Rangoon’: Realigning the Middle East, 1914–c. 1921

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      Pages 132-169

   4. ‘When One Comes to Details, Difficulties Bristle’: The Aden Transfer, c. 1917–1937

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5. The End of the Indian Sphere

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   2. ‘A Sort of Gilded Parochialism’: Conclusions and Postscript

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6. Back Matter

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British India, as a result of history, geopolitics and its unique status within the Empire, controlled a chain of overseas agencies that stretched from southern Persia to eastern Africa. This book examines how, as the relative importance of British interests steadily eclipsed those of India throughout the region, Indian sub-imperial impulses clashed with the relentlessly advancing metropole. The nature of the struggle over political control between Britain and Indian reveals differences in perception and approach during a period of profound change in Anglo-Indian relations.

• bibliography
• India
• Middle East

'Robert Blyth's study of the administrative and diplomatic struggles between the Indian and British imperial governments illuminates the dynamics of sub-imperial expansion beyond the Raj...' - A. J. Stockwell, JRAS

ROBERT J. BLYTH is Curator of Imperial and Maritime History at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.

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