In Defence of British India: Great Britain in the Middle East, 1775-1842

by Edward Ingram

Overview

In Defence of British India (1984) illustrates the problems arising from the British need to defend an Indian empire. The strategies devised by Britain to counter the expansion of European empires into the Middle East are known as the Great Game.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032457536
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/01/2024
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Colonialism and Imperialism
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edward Ingram, Professor of Imperial History at Simon Fraser University

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Great Britain’s Great Game: A Proposal 3. The End of the Spectre of the Overland Trade, 1775–1801 4. The Role of the Indian Army at the End of the Eighteenth Century 5. The Failure of British Sea Power in the War of the Second Coalition, 1798–1801 6. Towards Entanglement with Persia, 1799–1801 7. Lord Mulgrave’s Proposals for the Reconstruction of Europe in 1804 8. The Royal Navy at the Strait of Hormuz, 1807–1808 9. An Excursion to the Kingdom of Kabul, 1807–1809 10. Rules of the Great Game in Asia, 1798–1829 11. The Struggle over the Persian Mission, 1828–1835 12. Three Approaches to the Great Game in Asia