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The British Raj: Volume I Growth
Though numbered volume I, this book is a companion to the book about the so-called Amritsar Massacre which is entitled 'The British Raj volume II Decay', written by Elisabeth Beckett. It is a potted history of the involvement of the British in the Indian sub-continent, which began in the early years of the Seventeenth Century, when Queen Elizabeth I granted a Charter to some of Her subjects to voyage to the East Indies for trade. Having written about the Amritsar incident, Elisabeth Beckett recognised that many people had been deceived on that subject because of the lies and propaganda surrounding the presence and actions of the British in India from their first arrival. Both The Honourable East India Company and later, the British Crown, were described as the worst of colonial powers, ruthless exploiters of Indian people, rapacious thieves of Indian riches and cruel despoilers of Indian culture. In order to counter these false images and to portray a more factual account of the British Raj, Elisabeth undertook the research from both, Indian and British sources, which resulted in this volume. Four hundred years of Indian history is too vast a subject to be fully covered in one short book, but even a short book can point up the facts and inaccuracies in other accounts, which have concealed or distorted the record in order to further political ambitions. The dedicated website at www.massacremyth.com will include opportunity to comment on this later addition to Elisabeth's research, recorded in her manuscript, which exists only as a preamble to the account contained in volume II. Like volume II, it has been edited by John Wrake.
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The British Raj: Volume I Growth
Though numbered volume I, this book is a companion to the book about the so-called Amritsar Massacre which is entitled 'The British Raj volume II Decay', written by Elisabeth Beckett. It is a potted history of the involvement of the British in the Indian sub-continent, which began in the early years of the Seventeenth Century, when Queen Elizabeth I granted a Charter to some of Her subjects to voyage to the East Indies for trade. Having written about the Amritsar incident, Elisabeth Beckett recognised that many people had been deceived on that subject because of the lies and propaganda surrounding the presence and actions of the British in India from their first arrival. Both The Honourable East India Company and later, the British Crown, were described as the worst of colonial powers, ruthless exploiters of Indian people, rapacious thieves of Indian riches and cruel despoilers of Indian culture. In order to counter these false images and to portray a more factual account of the British Raj, Elisabeth undertook the research from both, Indian and British sources, which resulted in this volume. Four hundred years of Indian history is too vast a subject to be fully covered in one short book, but even a short book can point up the facts and inaccuracies in other accounts, which have concealed or distorted the record in order to further political ambitions. The dedicated website at www.massacremyth.com will include opportunity to comment on this later addition to Elisabeth's research, recorded in her manuscript, which exists only as a preamble to the account contained in volume II. Like volume II, it has been edited by John Wrake.
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The British Raj: Volume I Growth

The British Raj: Volume I Growth

by Elisabeth Beckett
The British Raj: Volume I Growth

The British Raj: Volume I Growth

by Elisabeth Beckett

Overview

Though numbered volume I, this book is a companion to the book about the so-called Amritsar Massacre which is entitled 'The British Raj volume II Decay', written by Elisabeth Beckett. It is a potted history of the involvement of the British in the Indian sub-continent, which began in the early years of the Seventeenth Century, when Queen Elizabeth I granted a Charter to some of Her subjects to voyage to the East Indies for trade. Having written about the Amritsar incident, Elisabeth Beckett recognised that many people had been deceived on that subject because of the lies and propaganda surrounding the presence and actions of the British in India from their first arrival. Both The Honourable East India Company and later, the British Crown, were described as the worst of colonial powers, ruthless exploiters of Indian people, rapacious thieves of Indian riches and cruel despoilers of Indian culture. In order to counter these false images and to portray a more factual account of the British Raj, Elisabeth undertook the research from both, Indian and British sources, which resulted in this volume. Four hundred years of Indian history is too vast a subject to be fully covered in one short book, but even a short book can point up the facts and inaccuracies in other accounts, which have concealed or distorted the record in order to further political ambitions. The dedicated website at www.massacremyth.com will include opportunity to comment on this later addition to Elisabeth's research, recorded in her manuscript, which exists only as a preamble to the account contained in volume II. Like volume II, it has been edited by John Wrake.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781492923350
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 12/29/2013
Series: The British Raj , #1
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

Elisabeth was born in 1924, the second daughter of Nora Ford and Ronald Brymer Beckett, I.C.S., later a High Court Judge in India and after independence, a prominent art historian. She lived in India until she returned for schooling in England at Vyne Stratton and Cheltenham Ladies College before rejoining her family in India.
Elisabeth married Richard Hibbert, I.C.S., in Lahore Cathedral in 1942. After marriage they lived in Kangra district. She toured widely and chaired the welfare committee for families of Indian soldiers fighting in Burma. She returned to England in 1944 where she worked for Picture Post and BBC Publications before her husband rejoined her in 1947.
Following the breakdown of her marriage in 1956, she moved with her children to Oxford. In financial difficulties, she fed her children on home-grown food.
She joined the local Soil Association and became chairwoman of the National Council of Women Standing Committee on Animal Welfare. In that role she organised conferences and meetings in Oxford and Reading and from one such conference, the organization "Compassion in World Farming" was started.
In the late 1960s, she started the Ark Nursery School. The school followed an integrated approach to early education, which incorporated daily bread-making and gardening into the timetable. The approach used ideas from D.W. Winnicott's 'The Child, the Family and the Outside World' and Rudolph Steiner's 'Growth of the Child', but was also inspired by Elisabeth's own experience with children and her philosophy of education. The school not only catered for many Oxford children but also trained young teachers from England, Europe, and the United States. The school was described in the book 'Free Way to Learning: Educational Alternatives in Action', published by Penguin Books in 1974.
Meanwhile, her research on India resulted in drafts of two books on the British in India in which, she tried to correct what she felt were fundamental inaccuracies in previous accounts, advanced and repeated for political purposes, in contradiction to eyewitness evidence.
Elisabeth studied law for a number of years and as a result of her studies, she became increasingly concerned that the British Constitution was being progressively eroded by successive governments. She was particularly incensed by the false assertion that we do not have a written constitution. She continued her pressure on Authority right up to her death from Leukaemia on 7 February 2009.
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