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• Introduction : Indo-Persian encounters in Southeast Asia
• Offshore
• Of elephants, rubies, and teak
• Immortal city
• Forest worlds
• In the wilderness of Pali
• Epilogue

The City and the Wilderness recounts the journeys and microhistories of Indo-Persian travelers across the Indian Ocean and their encounters with the Burmese Kingdom and its littoral at the turn of the nineteenth century. As Mughal sovereignty waned under British colonial rule, Indo-Persian travelers and intermediaries linked to the East India Company explored and surveyed the Burmese Empire, inscribing it as a forest landscape and Buddhist kingdom at the crossroads of South and Southeast Asia. Based on colonial Persian travel books and narratives in which Indo-Persian knowledge and perceptions of the wondrous edges of the Indian Ocean merged with Orientalist pursuits, The City and the Wilderness uncovers fading histories of inter-Asian crossings and exchanges at the ends of the Mughal world.
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• Introduction: Defining the Boundaries of South Asian States
• 2. Frontiers and Boundaries
• 2. Defining the Mughal Inheritance, 1757-98
• 3. The End of the Multi-State System, 1798-1833
• 4. Frontiers and the Mountain Wall, 1833-57
• Afterword: The Continuing Problem of Boundaries

Following the death of the great historian, Ainslie T. Embree, this remarkable document was found in his study, a project to which he had devoted the last years of his life. It is an insightful exploration of how the boundaries of the modern South Asian states were created in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, based on a careful examination of original materials in archives in England and India. Artfully written with rich local detail, this book reveals the fascinating interplay of colonial and local interests as the modern states were carved into being. It is destined to be a classic in the history of South Asian nation building.
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A look at the painting traditions of northwestern India in the eighteenth century, and what they reveal about the political and artistic changes of the era In the long eighteenth century, artists from Udaipur, a city of lakes in northwestern India, specialized in depicting the vivid sensory ambience of its historic palaces, reservoirs, temples, bazaars, and durbars. As Mughal imperial authority weakened by the late 1600s and the British colonial economy became paramount by the 1830s, new patrons and mobile professionals reshaped urban cultures and artistic genres across early modern India. The Place of Many Moods explores how Udaipur's artworks-monumental court paintings, royal portraits, Jain letter scrolls, devotional manuscripts, cartographic artifacts, and architectural drawings-represent the period's major aesthetic, intellectual, and political shifts. Dipti Khera shows that these immersive objects powerfully convey the bhava-the feel, emotion, and mood-of specific places, revealing visions of pleasure, plenitude, and praise. These memorialized moods confront the ways colonial histories have recounted Oriental decadence, shaping how a culture and time are perceived. Illuminating the close relationship between painting and poetry, and the ties among art, architecture, literature, politics, ecology, trade, and religion, Khera examines how Udaipur's painters aesthetically enticed audiences of courtly connoisseurs, itinerant monks, and mercantile collectives to forge bonds of belonging to real locales in the present and to long for idealized futures. Their pioneering pictures sought to stir such emotions as love, awe, abundance, and wonder, emphasizing the senses, spaces, and sociability essential to the efficacy of objects and expressions of territoriality. The Place of Many Moods uncovers an influential creative legacy of evocative beauty that raises broader questions about how emotions and artifacts operate in constituting history and subjectivity, politics and place.
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• Chapter MEMOIRS OF AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FOOTMAN
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First published in 1927. John Macdonald (1741-96) was born, and died, a Scottish Highlander. First published at the time of the French Revolution, these memoirs of his days in service provide a rich panorama of life in the company of blind fiddlers, maid-servants, the Scottish aristocracy, soldiers, historians, Oriental Princes, servants of the East India Company and men of great wealth, including James Coutts the banker. In 1768 - as the result of an errand - it fell to Macdonald to witness the death of Laurence Sterne. 'Simply packed with interest' Sunday Times '..a model of genuine writing' Evening Standard 'Deserves a high place among autobiographies.' Nation.
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• Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Author's Note; Introduction; Part One: THE FIRST BRITISH EMPIRE AND ITS CRISIS; 1 The First British Empire, the Whig Supremacy, and the East India Company; 2 Bourgeois Radicalism and the "Empire of Liberty" in the Age of Pitt; 3 The Plassey Revolution in Bengal and the Company's Civil War in Britain; Part Two: THE MAKING OF THE SECOND BRITISH EMPIRE; 4 Clive's Conquest of East India House and the Company's Conquest of Bengal; 5 The New Toryism and the Imperial Reaction at the Accession of George III

• 6 The Triumph of the New Toryism and the Spirit of the Second British EmpireEpilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

• Imperium in imperio : The East India company, the British Empire and the revolutions in Bengal, 1757-1772
• Colonial encounters and the crisis in Bengal, 1765-1772
• Warren Hastings and 'the legal forms of Mogul government', 1772-1774
• Philip Francis and the 'country government'
• Sovereignty, custom and natural law : The Calcutta Supreme Court, 1774-1781
• Reconstituting empire, c. 1780-1793.

Robert Travers' analysis of British conquests in late eighteenth-century India shows how new ideas were formulated about the construction of empire. After the British East India Company conquered the vast province of Bengal, Britons confronted the apparent anomaly of a European trading company acting as an Indian ruler. Responding to a prolonged crisis of imperial legitimacy, British officials in Bengal tried to build their authority on the basis of an 'ancient constitution', supposedly discovered among the remnants of the declining Mughal Empire. In the search for an indigenous constitution, British political concepts were redeployed and redefined on the Indian frontier of empire, while stereotypes about 'oriental despotism' were challenged by the encounter with sophisticated Indian state forms. This highly original book uncovers a forgotten style of imperial state-building based on constitutional restoration, and in the process opens up new points of connection between British, imperial and South Asian history.

• History of This Book Foreword by R. H. Khwaja Introduction Europeans Arrive in India Siraj-ud-Daula-Battle of Plassey Mir Jafar Mir Kasim-Subedar "Rebel" Fugitive Mir Jafar Again After Mir Jafar Warren Hastings The First Maratha War Battles in the South-Haider Ali-Tipu Sir John Macpherson-Acting Governor-general Lord Cornwallis (1786-93) Sir John Shore (1793-98) Marquess of Wellesley Nizam Forced into "Subsidiary Alliance" Tipu Sultan States of Oudh and Farrukhabad Annexation of Tanjore End of Karnatak Nawab's Sovereignty Annexation of Surat Schemes against the Peshwa and Sindhia Reinstatement of Bajirao as Peshwa Origin of the Second Maratha War Intrigues and Machinations Empire Expansion Battles Between the English and Jaswantrao Holkar Siege of Bharatpur.
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A freedom fighter's account of India's struggle for independence. How the British came to India, slowly penetrated the sub-continent and established an empire is a story recorded by many historians but not fully told... The early British historians tried to play down the role of their countrymen in subjugating the native kingdoms in India by all means. It was left to a few diligent historians to carry out painstaking research and unravel the facts. Pandit Sunderlal, who wrote this sensational book originally in Hindi in 1929, vigorously exposed the British plan to enlarge their sphere of influence in India slowly and steadily through a number of dubious methods. Apart from revealing the state of affairs between the Indian native kingdoms and the East India Company, How India Lost Her Freedom provides a fine account of what India was prior to the advent of the British. The book focuses on the crucial facts and events that led to the establishment of British rule over India. .
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An original exploration of the relationship between the Mughal emperor and his subjects in the space of the Mughal empire's capital, The King and the People overturns an axiomatic assumption in the history of premodern South Asia: that the urban masses were merely passive objects of rule and remained unable to express collective political aspirations until the coming of colonialism. Set in the Mughal capital of Shahjahanabad (Delhi) from its founding to Nadir Shah's devastating invasion of 1739, this book instead shows how the trends and events in the second half of the seventeenth century inadvertently set the stage for the emergence of the people as actors in a regime which saw them only as the ruled. Drawing on a wealth of sources from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this book is the first comprehensive account of the dynamic relationship between ruling authority and its urban subjects in an era that until recently was seen as one of only decline. By placing ordinary people at the centre of its narrative, this wide-ranging work offers fresh perspectives on imperial sovereignty, on the rise of an urban culture of political satire, and on the place of the practices of faith in the work of everyday politics. It unveils a formerly invisible urban panorama of soldiers and poets, merchants and shoemakers, who lived and died in the shadow of the Red Fort during an era of both dizzying turmoil and heady possibilities. As much an account of politics and ideas as a history of the city and its people, this lively and lucid book will be equally of value for specialists, students, and lay readers interested in the lives and ambitions of the mass of ordinary inhabitants of India's historic capital three hundred years ago.
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• Foreword vii Prologue 1 PART ONE: MARRIED TO THE REGIMENT 1750-1778
• 1 Where Passions Rage 13
• 2 In Between Empires 26
• 3 The Butcher of Patna 43
• 4 Enchanted by Her Heroism 62
• 5 A Home of Their Own 77 PART TWO: DAUGHTER OF THE EMPEROR 1778-1788
• 6 Steel Beneath the Muslin 95
• 7 Fit for Service 124
• 8 Fearless Foreigner 146
• 9 Violence, Rapine and Barbarity 166
• 10 Errors of Judgement 189
• 11 A Gathering Storm 214
• 12 A Salutory Experience 237 PART THREE: THE ONLY LADY AT THE TABLE 1788-1836
• 13 A Genius for Majesty 255
• 14 Best-laid Plans 269 Epilogue 291 Afterword 298 Notes 300 Select Bibliography 320 Index 327.
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Amongst the riches of nineteenth century India, as the British fought their way across Mughal territory, an orphaned streetgirl ends up at court with the ear of the Emperor. That girl was Farzana, and she would become a courtesan, a leader of armies, a treasured defender of the last Mughal emperor and the head of one of the most legendary courts in history. In this beautifully written book, the author's last, Julia Keay weaves a story which spans the Indian continent and the end of a golden era in Indian history, the story of a nobody who became a teenage seductress and died one of the richest and most prominent women of her age. Farzana rode into battle atop a stallion, though only 4 1/2 feet tall, and led an army which defended a sickly Mughal Empire. She dabbled in witchcraft while gaining favour with the Pope, and died a favourite of the British Raj. Farzana is an evocative and moving depiction of one of the most remarkable, and least-known, historical lives of the nineteenth century.
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• Sir William Jones
• Sir John Horsford
• Anna Maria
• Lady Maria Nugent
• John Leyden
• James Atkinson
• Reginald Heber
• George Anderson Vetch
• Horace Hayman Wilson
• John Lawson
• Thomas Medwin
• Emma Roberts
• James Ross Hutchinson
• Henry Meredith Parker
• David Lester Richardson
• Honoria Marshall Lawrence
• Kasiprasad Ghosh
• Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
• Henry Page
• Sir John William Kaye
• E.L.
• Michael Madhusudan Dutt
• Shoshee Chunder Dutt
• Govin Chunder Dutt and The Dutt Family Album
• Mary Seyers Carshore
• Sir Edwin Arnold
• Greece Chunder Dutt
• Mary Eliza Leslie
• Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall
• Aru Dutt
• Toru Dutt
• John Renton Denning
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Laurence Hope [Adela Cory Nicolson]
• Rudyard Kipling
• Manmohan Ghose
• Joseph Furtado
• Aurobindo Ghose
• Sarojini Naidu
• -- Appendix : Comic and Satiric Poets of the Long Nineteenth Century
• -- Quiz
• Sir Charles D'Oyly
• Pips
• Aliph Cheem [Walter Yeldham].

Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780-1913: A Critical Anthology makes accessible for the first time the entire range of poems written in English on the subcontinent from their beginnings in 1780 to the watershed moment in 1913 when Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Mary Ellis Gibson establishes accurate texts for such well-known poets as Toru Dutt and the early nineteenth-century poet Kasiprasad Ghosh. The anthology brings together poets who were in fact colleagues, competitors, and influences on each other. The historical scope of the anthology, beginning with the famous Orientalist Sir William Jones and the anonymous "Anna Maria" and ending with Indian poets publishing in fin-de-siecle London, will enable teachers and students to understand what brought Kipling early fame and why at the same time Tagore's Gitanjali became a global phenomenon. Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780-1913 puts all parties to the poetic conversation back together and makes their work accessible to American audiences. With accurate and reliable texts, detailed notes on vocabulary, historical and cultural references, and biographical introductions to more than thirty poets, this collection significantly reshapes the understanding of English language literary culture in India. It allows scholars to experience the diversity of poetic forms created in this period and to understand the complex religious, cultural, political, and gendered divides that shaped them.
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• List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Chapter One: Outrage in Calcutta 1 Chapter Two: A Secret Veil 33 Chapter Three: Tipu's Tiger 67 Chapter Four: Liberty of the Subject 104 Chapter Five: Equality of Subjects 134 Chapter Six: For the Happiness of Mankind 159 Chapter Seven: The Pedagogy of Violence 185 Chapter Eight: The Pedagogy of Culture 222 Chapter Nine: Bombs, Sovereignty, and Football 264 Chapter Ten: The Death and Everlasting Life of Empire 311 Afterword Notes 347 References 387 Index 409.
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When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison. Of the group, 123 died of suffocation. While this episode was never independently confirmed, the story of "The black hole of Calcutta' was widely circulated and seen by the British public as an atrocity committed by savage colonial subjects. "The Black Hole of Empire" follows the ever-changing representations of this historical event and founding myth of the British Empire in India, from the eighteenth century to the present. Partha Chatterjee explores how a supposed tragedy paved the ideological foundations for the civilizing force of British imperial rule and territorial control in India. Chatterjee takes a close look at the justifications of modern empire by liberal thinkers, international lawyers, and conservative traditionalists, and examines the intellectual and political responses of the colonized, including those of Bengali nationalists. The two sides of empire's entwined history are brought together in the story of the Black Hole memorial: set up in Calcutta in 1760, demolished in 1821, restored by Lord Curzon in 1902, and removed in 1940 to a neglected churchyard. Challenging conventional truisms of imperial history, nationalist scholarship, and liberal visions of globalization, Chatterjee argues that empire is a necessary and continuing part of the history of the modern state.
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• 1. A Shropshire lad
• 2. Clive's passage to India
• 3. Emergence of the military leader
• 4. Battle of Plassey
• 5. Wealth and power
• 6. Bengal again
• 7. Lord Clive.

No one in the early days of the British ventures in India was as well known or as controversial as Clive became. In our own day when (informal) empire and globalism are talked about and witnessed with ease, Clive's position as both a servant of the East India Company-which developed into the world's largest transnational trading company at the time-and an agent of imperialism makes him a surprisingly resonant figure.
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• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Debi Chaudhurani, or The Wife Who Came Home
• Dedication, Epigraphs, Notice
• Part I: Chapters 1-16
• Part II: Chapters 1-12
• Part III: Chapters 1-14
• Critical Apparatus
• Dedication, Epigraphs, Notice
• Part I: Chapters 1-16
• Part II: Chapters 1-12
• Part III: Chapters 1-14
• Appendix A: Earlier Version of Part I, Chapters 9-17
• Appendix B: Earlier Version of Part II, Chapters 1-12
• Select Bibliography
• Index to the Introduction and Critical Apparatus
• Index to Debi Chaudhurani (Including Variants).
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This is the second in a trilogy of works by the famed Bengali novelist Bankimcandra Chatterji (1838-1894), and the second to be translated by Julius Lipner. The first, Anandamath, or The Sacred Brotherhood was published by OUP in 2005. Bankim Chatterji was perhaps the foremost novelist and intellectual mediating western ideas to India in the latter half of the 19th century. Debi Chaudhurani is a didactic work that champions a particular interpretation of Hindu dharma and wifely duties reflective of the late 19th-century Calcutta context in which it was written. But the story is also compelling. Written in a conversational style, it features surprising plot twists and ideas that are, even today, revolutionary in their daring. Most notably, Bankim makes a woman the embodiment of Lord Krishna's salvific message, as originally enunciated in the Bhagavad Gita. The protagonist, Debi, is a complex figure who is a rejected wife, becomes a bandit queen, represents a goddess figure, and symbolizes the land of India. There is a creative tension between her strength as a leader and her correct role, from the perspective of the author, as a domestic wife. Bankim also focuses on caste and what it means to be a genuine Brahmin, who is transformed by the author into a man who executes responsibilities instead of demanding privileges. Within the context of the teachings of the Gita, the author shares his vision of social activism to improve India. Lipner's idiomatic translation is enhanced by his detailed commentary on the original Bengali text and by a readable introduction that sets the novel and its ideas in context.
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• Introduction
• 1. British World-Wide Expansion
• 2. State and Empire
• 3. War and its Transformations: The Atlantic 1754-1763
• 4. War and its Transformations: India 1754-1765
• 5. Ideas of Empire 1763-1776: The 'Old' Empire
• 6. Ideas of Empire 1763-1776: The 'New' Empire
• 7. The Making of Empire, I: India, New Imperial Structures
• 8. The Making of Empire, II: India, Madras, Bombay, and Bengal
• 9. The Unmaking of Empire, I: North America 1763-1768
• 10. The Unmaking of Empire, II: North America 1768-1775
• 11. War and its Resolutions 1775-1783
• Bibliography
• Index.
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In The Making and Unmaking of Empires P. J. Marshall, distinguished author of numerous books on the British Empire and former Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, provides a unified interpretation of British imperial history in the later eighteenth century. He brings together into a common focus Britain's loss of empire in North America and the winning of territorial dominion in parts of India and argues that these developments were part of a single phase of Britain's imperial history, rather than marking the closing of a 'first' Atlantic empire and the rise of a 'second' eastern one. In both India and North America Britain pursued similar objectives in this period. Fearful of the apparent enmity of France, Britain sought to secure the interests overseas which were thought to contribute so much to her wealth and power. This involved imposing a greater degree of control over colonies in America and over the East India Company and its new possessions in India. Aspirations to greater control also reflected an increasing confidence in Britain's capacity to regulate the affairs of subject peoples, especially through parliament. If British objectives throughout the world were generally similar, whether they could be achieved depended on the support or at least acquiescence of those they tried to rule. Much of this book is concerned with bringing together the findings of the rich historical writing on both post-Mughal India and late colonial America to assess the strengths and weaknesses of empire in different parts of the world. In North America potential allies who were closely linked to Britain in beliefs, culture and economic interest were ultimately alienated by Britain's political pretensions. Empire was extremely fragile in two out of the three main Indian settlements. In Bengal, however, the British achieved a modus vivendi with important groups which enabled them to build a secure base for the future subjugation of the subcontinent. With the authority of one who has made the study of empire his life's work, Marshall provides a valuable resource for scholar and student alike.
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• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Supplying the market
• 2. Professional musicians in India
• 3. The woman amateur
• 4. The male dilettante
• 5. The encounter with Indian music
• 6. The return to England
• Appendices
• Sources
• Bibliography
• Index.
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Music of the Raj is a study of musical life in late eighteenth-century Anglo-Indian society, based on the unpublished correspondence of an extended network of families. The writers of these letters - amateurs with a passionate commitment to the art of music - provide a perceptive commentary on many of the major issues of the day: the stylistic change from Baroque to Galant, the replacement of the harpsichord with the pianoforte, the establishment of the musical canon, and the growing economic and cultural influence of women musicians. Among the topics discussed are the transport, tuning and maintenance of instruments, the relationship between amateur pupil and professional teacher, the conduct of the domestic musical soiree, the role of glee singing in courtship, and the musical education of children. An account is also given of the growth of an expatriate musical culture among the European inhabitants of early colonial Calcutta, and the musical tastes of major Anglo-Indian figures such as Robert Clive, Warren Hastings, and Sir William Jones are assessed. English attitudes to Indian music is an important theme, especially as manifested in the fashion for the Hindostannie airs, transcriptions of Indian melodies in European musical language. The study concludes with an examination of the musical lives of wealthy nabobs back in England, where they immersed themselves in Indian musical culture, taking the Grand Tour, supporting opera at the Kings Theatre, and employing fashionable Italian teachers for their children.
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• Introduction : that strange, ridic'lous vice
• The many faces of fashion in the early eighteenth century
• Fops and coquettes : gender, sexuality, and status
• Country modes : cultural politics and political resistance
• New duties and old desires on the eve of revolution
• A contest of modes in revolutionary Philadelphia
• Fashion and nation
• Epilogue : political habits and citizenship's corset : the 1790s and beyond.

In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power. Here, Kate Haulman explores how and why fashion--both as a concept and as the changing style of personal adornment--linked gender relations, social order, commerce, and political authority during a time when traditional hierarchies were in flux. In the see-and-be-seen port cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston, fashion, a form of power and distinction, was conceptually feminized yet pursued by both men and women across class ranks. Haulman shows that elite men and women in these cities relied on fashion to present their status but also attempted to undercut its ability to do so for others. Disdain for others' fashionability was a means of safeguarding social position in cities where the modes of dress were particularly fluid and a way to maintain gender hierarchy in a world in which women's power as consumers was expanding. Concerns over gendered power expressed through fashion in dress, Haulman reveals, shaped the revolutionary-era struggles of the 1760s and 1770s, influenced national political debates, and helped to secure the exclusions of the new political order.
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• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Prologue
• 1. Scandal
• 2. Corruption
• 3. Spectacle
• 4. Economy
• 5. Sovereignty
• 6. State
• 7. History
• 8. Tradition
• 9. Empire
• Notes
• Illustration Credits
• Index.

Many have told of the East India Company's extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one of these men-Warren Hastings-was put on trial by Edmund Burke, it brought the Company's exploits to the attention of the public. Through the trial and after, the British government transformed public understanding of the Company's corrupt actions by creating an image of a vulnerable India that needed British assistance. Intrusive behavior was recast as a civilizing mission. In this fascinating, and devastating, account of the scandal that laid the foundation of the British Empire, Nicholas Dirks explains how this substitution of imperial authority for Company rule helped erase the dirty origins of empire and justify the British presence in India. The Scandal of Empire reveals that the conquests and exploitations of the East India Company were critical to England's development in the eighteenth century and beyond. We see how mercantile trade was inextricably linked with imperial venture and scandalous excess and how these three things provided the ideological basis for far-flung British expansion. In this powerfully written and trenchant critique, Dirks shows how the empire projected its own scandalous behavior onto India itself. By returning to the moment when the scandal of empire became acceptable we gain a new understanding of the modern culture of the colonizer and the colonized and the manifold implications for Britain, India, and the world.
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The Scandal of Empire reveals that the conquests and exploitations of the East India Company were critical to England's development in the eighteenth century and beyond. In this powerfully written critique, Nicholas Dirks shows how the empire projected its own scandalous behavior onto India itself. By returning to the moment when the scandal of empire became acceptable, we gain a new understanding of the modern culture of the colonizer and the colonized and the manifold implications for Britain, India, and the world.
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• Culloden's children
• No great mischief
• Eastward ho!
• Baillie-ki-Paltan
• Brothers in arms
• Affairs of the heart
• A council of incompetents
• Command at Pondicherry
• Disaster
• Imprisonment and death at Seringapatam
• Homeward bound
• Brain fever in Baghdad
• Estrangement
• John of Leys and the acquisition of Bundelcund
• Margaret and the Anglo-Indian Elmores
• The resident at Lucknow
• Dismissal
• Retribution
• Dissolution.

"From 1760 to 1869, four generations of one family from the Scottish Highlands sought their fortunes in the service of the East India Company. As they worked their way up through the ranks of the empire, the Baillie family left numerous footprints in India and recorded their fascinating experiences in letters sent home to Scotland. Drawing on thorough research of the military, political, and economic events of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and an extensive collection of family letters that depict the lives and personalities of his ancestors, Alexander Charles Baillie brings the history of British India to life. The compelling documents, lost for over a century with many reproduced here, reveal changing race relations and social attitudes, cultural tensions, military and civilian battles, economic pressures, and the rise and decline of the East India Company. The book focuses especially on two members of the family--William of Dunain, a military officer, and John of Leys, a civil servant--whose numerous adventures and misadventures impart provocative clues about the workings of the empire and the daily lives of its most influential figures. An exciting, invaluable, and personalized glimpse into the past of India, Scotland, and the East India Company, Call of Empire will appeal to genealogy enthusiasts, and social and global historians."-- Provided by publisher.

• Ch. 1. The State and Its Colonial Frontiers
• Ch. 2. History as Imperial Lesson
• Ch. 3. Invasive Prospects
• Ch. 4. Domesticity and Dominion
• Ch. 5. The Decline of Intimacy.

It is impossible to understand how the British came to be British without thinking about how Indians became Indian. To a significant extent colonizers and colonized made each other. In this broad study of British rule in India during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Sudipta Sen takes up this dual agenda, sketching out the interrelationships between nationalism, imperialism and identity formation as they played out in both South Asia and Great Britain.