IAN COPLAND is Associate Professor of History at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and the Editor of
South Asia. His previous publications include
The Burden of Empire: Perspectives on Imperialism and Colonialism (1990),
The Princes of India in the End-Game of Empires, 1917-1947 (1997) and
India 1885-1997: The Unmaking of an Empire (2002).