Description
This book explores the last years of the British East India Company using the life of General Sir James Abbott--explorer, guerilla, district officer, and possible inspiration for Mr. Kurtz in Heart of Darkness--as a thread to reexamine the social and sexual relationships between Britons and Indians and chronicle the collapse of their social contract.
Author: Chris Mason
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 10/14/2022
Pages: 390
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.87d
ISBN13: 9781538169575
ISBN10: 1538169576
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- History | Asia | South | General
- Political Science | Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
About the Author
Chris Mason is professor of national security affairs and director of the Study of Internal Conflict (SOIC) at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he researches, writes, and teaches on civil wars, insurgencies, and modern and historical India. He has published extensively on South Asia, focusing on Afghanistan, India, and the nineteenth and twentieth century borderlands between the two countries. Dr. Mason is a retired foreign service officer with a PhD in imperial and colonial history from the George Washington University in Washington, DC.