Articles on British Colonial Policy
Dissolution of the Princely Order in India: A Neglected Historiography
By Suhail Ahmin Mir · Journal of Indian History and Culture, 2023
The dissolution of India's princely states following the 1947 partition has received limited scholarly attention despite being a complex political process involving the integration of over 500 semi-sovereign territories into the newly formed Indian Union.…
British Official and Non-Official Attitudes and Policies toward the Indian National Congress, 1885-1894
By Joice C. Lebra · The Indian Historical Quarterly
This article seeks to determine whether significant differences existed between the attitudes and policies of British officials and non‑officials toward the Indian National Congress in its formative years and whether these differences influenced…
The Treaty of Mangalore
By A. P. Das Gupta · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1930
This piece examines the Treaty of Mangalore signed on 11 March 1784, which ended the Second Mysore War. It analyses the dispute between Warren Hastings, who advocated fighting until Mysore sued for peace, and Lord Macartney, who sought a negotiated…