The Political Economy of the Raj, 1914-1947

The thirty-year rule has recently opened up the official records on the end of British rule in India, and has made possible a reassessment of this complex and fascinating event. The books and theses will soon roll out, but in the meantime Dr. Tomlinson has painted the landscape into which other writers will have to insert the figures of Nehru, Mount-batten and Jinnah. In his earlier book, The Indian National Congress and the Raj 1929-42, he provided an incisive view of Indian political evolution. In this one, he sets out the economics of decolonisation.