January 21, 2014 Day Five at the Jaipur Literature Festival: The British Empire and India's Partition Just before the curtains fell on the seventh edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival, (there were) Two back-to-back sessions on the final day discussed the British Empire, which governed India for almost a century, and the repercussions that were felt in independent India post the event of Partition in 1947. In an hour-long session, Maya Jasanoff, a professor of history at Harvard University who has written award-winning books on the British Empire, and David Cannadine, an author and a history professor at Princeton who wrote the book "Orientalism: How the British Saw their Empire" in 2001, discussed whether Britain implemented the same societal structures in the countries where it took power as at home. (snip) http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2014/01/21/day-five-at-the-jaipur-literature-festival-the-british-empire-and-indias-partition/ Also see: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Enterprise-and-not-money-sustained-British-Empire-Cannadine/articleshow/29173932.cms ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar