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The Making of India: The Untold Story of British Enterprise by Kartar Lalvani (Hardcover, 2016)

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Elegant, fair and extremely well written. I am delighted that the other side of the story is being told, as it deserves to be. -- Martin Bell, British UNICEF Ambassador, former MP and war reporter Remarkable for its scholarship, readability and message. -- Andrew Roberts, historian, visiting Professor Kings College London, author of Napoleon the Great Absolutely excellent: informative, well argued and passionate. This book contains the seeds of future Anglo-Indian cooperation. -- Tony Blair, former British Prime Minister This is a courageous and meticulously researched book. It challenges the fashionably negative view of the impact of the Raj on India. Dr Lalvani makes the positive case with conviction and scholarship.

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The story of The Making of India begins in the seventeenth century, when a small seafaring island, one tenth the size of the Indian subcontinent, despatched sailing ships over 11,000 miles on a five-month trading journey in search of new opportunities. In the end they helped build a new nation. The sheer audacity and scale of such an endeavour, the courage and enterprise, have no parallel in world history. This book is the first to assess in a single volume almost all aspects of Britain's remarkable contribution in providing India with its lasting institutional and physical infrastructure, which continues to underpin the world's largest democracy in the twenty-first century.