Description: THE OXFORD HISTORY OF MODERN INDIAN 1740-1947PERCIVAL SPEAR, AUTHOROXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS1965427pp7.5" x 5" x 1"WEIGHT = 1 lb 1 oz===== Thomas George Percival Spear OBE (1901–1982) was a British historian of modern South Asia, in particular of its colonial period. He taught at both Cambridge University and St. Stephen's College, Delhi. Born in Bath in 1901, Percival Spear attended Monkton Combe School and later St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he studied History. He spent some of his time there rowing in the Cambridge rowing team. He thereafter went to India and taught European and English history at St. Stephen's College, Delhi from 1924 to 1940. In 1943 Spear became a deputy secretary to the government of India in the department of information and broadcasting. He also served for a time in 1944 as a government whip in the Federal Assembly, the precursor to independent India's Parliament. After World War II, Spear returned to Cambridge, becoming a Fellow and Bursar of Selwyn College and later a university lecturer in South Asian History. He spent a year at the University of California, Berkeley on a visiting professorship. Percival Spear was awarded the Order of Merit (OBE) in the 1946 New Year Honours.=====
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Publication Year: 1965
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Language: English
Book Title: THE OXFORD HISTORY OF MODERN INDIA 1740-1947
Book Series: OXFORD BOOKS
Author: PERCIVAL SPEAR
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Genre: History
Topic: HISTORY OF INDIA
