author
C. H. T. (Charles Haukes Todd) Crosthwaite
1835–1915
A British administrator in India and Burma, he wrote from direct experience at the center of imperial rule. His best-known book offers a firsthand account of the annexation and administration of Burma in the late nineteenth century.
1 Audiobook
The Pacification of Burma
by C. H. T. (Charles Haukes Todd) Crosthwaite
About the author
Born in Dublin on December 5, 1835, Charles Haukes Todd Crosthwaite was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford before joining the Indian Civil Service. He spent much of his career in British India and later became Chief Commissioner of Burma from 1887 to 1890.
Crosthwaite is best remembered by readers today for The Pacification of Burma, a work drawn from his own role in the British takeover and administration of Upper Burma. The book is valuable as a firsthand historical source, though it also reflects the outlook and assumptions of the colonial system he served.
He was knighted and died in 1915. For audiobook listeners, his writing offers an inside view of imperial government, frontier conflict, and the way British officials explained their actions to readers at home.