Publisher's Synopsis
This volume is the second in the series devoted to Indian studies at the University of Oxford. Unlike the previous volume, the six essays which appear here address themselves to a narrower period of Indian history and culture. Thy range from the way in which a core of traditional Muslim scholars faced the challege of Western intellectual experience, the economic aspects of British rule on certain sectors of society, the problems of the Eurasians (or Anglo-Indians) to the politics of pre-Partition India.;Teachers and students of Indian Studies.