Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and note on currency
- Glossary of Indian terms
- Map of Bengal and Bihar in the Eighteenth-Century
- Introduction
- 1 Imperium in imperio: the East India Company, the British empire and the revolutions in Bengal, 1757–1772
- 2 Colonial encounters and the crisis in Bengal, 1765–1772
- 3 Warren Hastings and ‘the legal forms of Mogul government’, 1772–1774
- 4 Philip Francis and the ‘country government’
- 5 Sovereignty, custom and natural law: the Calcutta Supreme Court, 1774–1781
- 6 Reconstituting empire, c. 1780–1793
- 7 Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 July 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and note on currency
- Glossary of Indian terms
- Map of Bengal and Bihar in the Eighteenth-Century
- Introduction
- 1 Imperium in imperio: the East India Company, the British empire and the revolutions in Bengal, 1757–1772
- 2 Colonial encounters and the crisis in Bengal, 1765–1772
- 3 Warren Hastings and ‘the legal forms of Mogul government’, 1772–1774
- 4 Philip Francis and the ‘country government’
- 5 Sovereignty, custom and natural law: the Calcutta Supreme Court, 1774–1781
- 6 Reconstituting empire, c. 1780–1793
- 7 Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society
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- Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century IndiaThe British in Bengal, pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007