%0 Book
%A Michael Fenwick Macnamara
%D 2024
%C Oxford, United Kingdom
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9781803746593
%T Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler: A Master Governor in British India (1890–1928)
%B A Record of His Contribution Towards the Development of Modern India
%R 10.3726/b22157
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1477212
%X The British Indian Civil Service was a small elite, which administered and governed a vast population. From their number were drawn the Governors of the various provinces. Relatively little work has been completed to explore the role these officials had in maintaining the British Indian Empire. Butler, in particular rose through the ranks of the ICS rapidly, becoming the second youngest to be promoted as Foreign Secretary and the youngest to be appointed a Governor. He was mooted as Viceroy. This book is drawn from Butler’s papers, held in the British Library, which have been edited to provide a chronological history of Butler’s personal life and of his exceptional official career. We are thus enabled to explore, not only his life in India at the personal level but to assess his input into British policy making across a wide spectrum. Most important areas include Land Settlement, Famine Relief, Foreign Policy, including towards the Princely States, Infrastructure, Industry, Agriculture, Education, Sanitation, and in response to Indian/Burmese Nationalism. An analysis of British intentions towards India is thus available. No similar or biographical work with respect to Butler has been completed.
%K British India, Viceroys, Governors, Foreign Policy, Indian Princes & Princely States, Indian States Committee, Indian Nationalism, Burmese Nationalism, jallianwala Bagh, Gandhi, Nehrus, Ali Khan, Muhammad Shafi, Congress, Muslim League, Hinduism, Islam, Land Settlement, Famine Relief, Agriculture, Sanitation, Industry, Infrastructure, Education in India, The First World War and India’s Contribution, British Empire, Imperialism, India Office, Establishment of New Delhi, Royal tours to India, Montford Reforms, Government of India Act 1919, Dyarchy, British Achievements in India
%G English