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...Leonard A. Gordon The Transfer of Power, 1942–1947. Vol. 10: The Mountbatten Viceroyalty: Formulation of a Plan, 22 March–30 May 1947. Vol. 11: The Mountbatten Viceroyalty: Announcement and Reception of the 3 June Plan, 31 May–7 June 1947. Vol. 12: The Mountbatten Viceroyalty: Princes...

...Thomas A. Rusch Wavell the Viceroy's Journal . Edited by Penderel Moon . London : Oxford University Press , 1973 . xi, 528 pp. Appendix, Index. £8.00 The Transfer of Power 1942–7. Volume IV: The Bengal Famine and the Viceroyalty 15 June 1943–31 August 1944 . Edited by Nicholas...

...Charles H. Heimsath The Viceroyalty of Lord Irwin, 1926–1931 . By S. Gopal . Oxford Historical Series. New York : Oxford University Press , 1957 . 152 . Index. $4.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 156 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES opinion regarding...

...Brijen K. Gupta Abstract The number of persons who perished in the so-called Black Hole of Calcutta in 1756 has long been a matter of controversy, especially intense since the Indian viceroyalty of Lord Curzon of Kedleston. Two scholars, C. R. Wilson and S. C. Hill, and their patron, Lord Curzon...

... the facade of British rule (if it did not go far deeper than that) through the viceroyalty of Lord Wavell, if not to the eve of Lord Mountbatten's transfer of power. Mr. Greenberger's third section, nonetheless, provides a useful "Epilogue to his more lengthy treatment of the previous interludes, and despite...

.... Vol. 10: The Mountbatten Viceroyalty: Formulation of a Plan, 22 March-30 May 1947. Vol. 11: The Mountbatten Viceroyalty: Announcement and Reception of the 3 June Plan, 31 May-7 June 1947. Vol. 12: The Mountbatten Viceroyalty: Princes, Partition, and Independence, 8 J u l y - 1 5 August 1947. Edited...

.... Biographical Notes, Unpublished Sources, Index. $20.50. This book sets out to provide a documented analytical account of imperial policy and nationalist politics during Linlithgow's Viceroyalty (p. 13). It attempts to reverse the trend toward the local in Indian historiography by returning to an overall...

... suicide in the Madras counting house, just as "confidence" remained the facade of British rule (if it did not go far deeper than that) through the viceroyalty of Lord Wavell, if not to the eve of Lord Mountbatten's transfer of power. Mr. Greenberger's third section, nonetheless, provides a useful...

... to sympathize with the Bengalee editorial opinion, quoted by Moulton on page 59, that Northbrook's viceroyalty will be remembered as "a period of repose." GEORGE W. SPENCER Northern Illinois University The Younghusband Expedition: An Interpretation. BY PARSHOTAM MEHRA. New York: Asia Publishing House, 1968. xxi...

... of "a subservience to Whitehall that has, perhaps, no parallel in Viceregal records." This study by P. L. Malhotra is an attempt to provide a corrective to the generally unfavorable public estimates of Elgin's term as Viceroyal (1894-99). Surely his was one of India's most troubled viceroyalties: tariff problems...

... bloc" makes the book interesting to the American reader who can discern in its pages something of the character of informed Indian 156 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES opinion regarding American attitudes toward India. University of Michigan ROBERT I. CRANE The Viceroyalty of Lord Irwin, 1926-1931. By S. GOPAL...

... capable of envisioning a new purpose for the British Raj. Chelmsford began his viceroyalty by asking what was the "goal" of British presence in India; he ended it in the belief that he and Montague had ensured that the goal would be to transfer power to responsible Indian legislatures, (p. 261...

... a man capable of envisioning a new purpose for the British Raj. Chelmsford began his viceroyalty by asking what was the "goal" of British presence in India; he ended it in the belief that he and Montague had ensured that the goal would be to transfer power to responsible Indian legislatures, (p. 261...

.... , The Viceroyalty of Lord Irtvin, 1926–1931 ( London , 1957 ) p. 64 . 2 Panikkar K. M. , India and the Indian Ocean ( London , 1951 ) p. 16 . 3 Gopal, p. 94. BOOK REVIEWS 97 period to period has revealed this kind of upon the apex of power, the Government of flexibility. She...

.... The merit of his study of Jinnah and the demand for Pakistan lies in the use of excellent primary material and not, unfortunately, in the sharpness of analysis. The final two studies on Lord Mountbatten's viceroyalty and the endgame are well done. Yet these, too, would have benefited from an appreciation...

... of excellent primary material and not, unfortunately, in the sharpness of analysis. The final two studies on Lord Mountbatten's viceroyalty and the endgame are well done. Yet these, too, would have benefited from an appreciation of the disjunctive between provincialism and separatism. Equating the two, Moore...

... reported from Tokyo that "it was unlikely that Japan would attempt to seize any part of Korea" (p. 53). However, the case for the Yalu timber concessionaire Bezobrazov was strongly argued before the Tsar and when, as a consequence, a Viceroyalty of the Far East was created to handle diplomacy at Port...

...-1930, only ten of the twenty-three resolutions passed by the chamber were accepted by the Political Department. Lord Irwin was more sympathetic to the chamber, but its initial period of operation under the Viceroyalty of Lord Reading clearly spelled out its internal and external weaknesses...

... of this discontent through the creation of voluntary associations in each of the provinces and the rise of the native press, and the contributions to nationalist aspirations of Ripon's Viceroyalty and the pro-Indian liberals. Mehrotra's book traverses much of the ground covered by Anil Seal in The Emergence...

... passed by the chamber were accepted by the Political Department. Lord Irwin was more sympathetic to the chamber, but its initial period of operation under the Viceroyalty of Lord Reading clearly spelled out its internal and external weaknesses. The author's conclusion that the chamber "was a force...