"Kanpur to Kolkata (historically Cawnpore to Calcutta, the terms used throughout this volume) is essentially a reproduction of aspects of the unpublished Report cum Diary of Major D.G. Pitcher, a judge in the Indian Civil Service"--Page 11; "Kanpur to Kolkata is divided principally into two main...

This original and controversial contribution to the topical debate on Britain's economic decline presents a critique of the thesis made familiar in recent years by Martin J. Wiener, Anthony Sampson, Correlli Barnett and others