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1934 book edited by H. H. Dodwell
The Cambridge Shorter History of India is a 1934 book on Indian history edited by
H. H. Dodwell and published by the
Cambridge University Press .
Description
This work is based on published volumes of
The Cambridge History of India but claims to be "far from a mere resumé of the larger work".
[1] The book is divided into three sections:
Ancient India (by
John Allan ),
Moslem India (by
T. Wolseley Haig ), and
British India (by Dodwell).
[2] The book has been criticised for devoting almost half its volume to sixty years of British rule (until the
Government of India Act 1919 );
[2] although the first half of the book was also considered too technical and "almost unreadable."
[3]
The 1958 reprint by
S. Chand & Co. contains additional chapters by R. R. Sethi on "The Last Phase (1919–1947)".
[4]
References
^ Roberts, P. E. (January 1936).
"Reviewed Work: The Cambridge Shorter History of India by J. Allan, T. Wolseley Haig, H. H. Dodwell" .
The English Historical Review . 51 (201): 156–59.
JSTOR
552787 .
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a
b
Treat, Payson J. (March 1935).
"Reviewed Work: The Cambridge Shorter History of India by J. Allan, T. Wolseley Haig, H. H. Dodwell" .
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science . 178 : 232–33.
JSTOR
1019836 .
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Williams, L. F. Rushbrook (October 1936). "Reviewed Work: The Cambridge Shorter History of India by J. Allan, T. Wolseley Haig, H. H. Dodwell and Ceylon Under British Rule, 1795-1932, with an Account of the East India Company's Embassies to Kandy, 1762-1795 by Lennox A. Mills".
The American Historical Review . 42 (1): 92–93.
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"The Cambridge Shorter History of India" .
Internet Archive .
S. Chand & Co. 1958.
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