One of the primary scholarly draws of British Indian history is the opportunity to delve into a complicated and multifaceted historical relationship between cultures whose longevity has rarely been equaled in the modern era. Beginning with Sir Thomas Roe's embassy to Jahangir, and extending well beyond 1947, the epic nature of the Indo-British relationship, with its kaleidoscope of both change and continuity, has provided fertile territory for groundbreaking historical work for over fifty years.
With Call of Empire: From the Highlands to Hindostan and The Ruler's Gaze: A Study of British Rule over India from a Saidian Perspective, Alexander Charles Baillie and Arvind Sharma have, respectively, inserted themselves into longstanding debates over the nature of British rule in India, the motivations of the British who served in India, and legacies of this experience for both the colonizers and the colonized. For both authors, these books constitute an early foray...
