... lived like local princelings, the new arrivals preferred to live like well-heeled Britons. Tom-toms were gradually replaced by fife-and-drum corps, curries by English dishes and local clothes by the latest (or almost latest) London fashions. Country houses complete with tidy gardens began to spring up along the Hooghly River in Calcutta. Places like the Bread and Cheese ... , became the first Viceroy of India. Thus began the last act of a drama that would culminate 90 years later in Gandhi's campaign of nonviolent resistance and in Paul Scott's heart-torn figures stranded in an imperial ...

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... undertake the five-year plans, and his glorification was such a reason, but there were far more important reasons for Stalin to introduce the five-year plans which otherwise would have torn apart the country and the communist party with it. Question 2. The five-year plans were one of the most propagandised achievements in history. The communist party in the Soviet Union ... , there were also eventually many benefits to the soviet people from industrialisation. In 1936, all food rationing was ended and workers had cheap food available in the factory canteens. Working clothes were made fre...

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