ABSTRACT
For ancient India the outstanding survey is A. L. Basham, The Wonder that was India , splendid on the cultural side. On the play of British ideas around their Indian possessions more general studies are G. D. Bearce, British Attitudes towards India, 1784-1858, K. Ingham, Reformers in India, 1793-1833 and the striking if stiff E. Stokes, The English Utilitarians and India. For an India-centred view it is still necessary in the main to work from monographs, but there are many of first-rate quality. To many studies of individual political leaders - e.g. B. R. Nanda, Mahatma Gandhi or M. Brecher, Nehru: a political biography- have now been added more general studies.
