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• General Editor's Foreword ... viii A Note on the Spelling of Sindh ... xi Cast of Characters and Glossary ... xii Illustrations ... xvi Acknowledgements ... xxiv Introduction ... 1
• 1 Merchants and the East India Company in Sindh ... 21
• 2 Conspiracy and Military-Fiscalism ... 69
• 3 Just Governance and Colonial Violence ... 133
• 4 Court Over Board ... 180 Afterword ... 224 Appendix: Anthropology, Context and Archives ... 229 Bibliography ... 241 Index ... 255.
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Annexation and the Unhappy Valley: The Historical Anthropology of Sindh's Colonization addresses the nineteenth century expansion and consolidation of British colonial power in the Sindh region of South Asia. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach and employs a fine-grained, nuanced and situated reading of multiple agents and their actions. It explores how the political and administrative incorporation of territory (i.e., annexation) by East India Company informs the conversion of intra-cultural distinctions into socio-historical conflicts among the colonized and colonizers. The book focuses on colonial direct rule, rather than the more commonly studied indirect rule, of South Asia. It socio-culturally explores how agents, perspectives and intentions vary-both within and across regions-to impact the actions and structures of colonial governance.
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• Acknowledgements Introduction Economic Environment During Mughal Empire Tale of Four Cities During Mughal Empire Economic Environment During Rule of East India Company Tale of Four Cities and the East India Company Economic Environment During British Raj Tale of Four Cities and British Raj Epilogue Bibliography Index.
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Ascent and Decline of Native and Colonial Trading: Tale of Four Indian Cities presents a vivid picture of how the British political regime reorganized the structure of the Indian economy to suit its own objectives. While doing so, the regime also affected the geographical distribution of economic activities, which in turn altered the locations of poverty and prosperity. To reveal how the British colonial power brought about such changes in the Indian subcontinent, the book narrates the account of two pairs of native and colonial cities- Dacca and Calcutta from the eastern coast, and Surat and Bombay from the western coast. These were major centres of manufacturing, shared a common history and experienced the consequences of three different political dispensations-the Mughal Empire, the East India Company and the British Raj. It describes in detail how mutually beneficial relationships and interregional variations between these cities developed because of colonial restructuring. Due to its extensive coverage and analysis of the underlying phenomena, this book will prove indispensable for developing a deep understanding of Indian colonial and economic history.
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• 1. Introduction--
• 2. Relationships: city, state, and empire--
• 3. Relationships: government and Company--
• 4. People: investors in empire--
• 5. People: company men--
• 6. Methods: an empire in writing--
• 7. Methods: the government of empire--
• 8. Methods: the management of trade--
• 9. Influences: the Company and the British economy-- Afterword.
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The Business of Empire assesses the domestic impact of British imperial expansion by analysing what happened in Britain following the East India Company's acquisition of a vast territorial empire in South Asia. Drawing on a mass of hitherto unused material contained in the company's administrative and financial records, the book offers a reconstruction of the inner workings of the company as it made the remarkable transition from business to empire during the late-eighteenth century. H. V. Bowen profiles the company's stockholders and directors and examines how those in London adapted their methods, working practices, and policies to changing circumstances in India. He also explores the company's multifarious interactions with the domestic economy and society, and sheds important new light on its substantial contributions to the development of Britain's imperial state, public finances, military strength, trade and industry. This book will appeal to all those interested in imperial, economic and business history.
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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.

• List of Figures List of Maps Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations
• Introduction: Imperial Encounters and Material Culture
• Chapter 1. Production, Use, Exchange: Spheres of Influence in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
• Chapter 2. Colonial Perspectives on Material Culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
• Chapter 3. Wider Spheres of Influence: The Andaman and Nicobar Islands in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
• Chapter 4. Public Property: The Andaman and Nicobar Islands at Brighton Museum, 1900 - 1949
• Chapter 5. Objects and Encounters Today
• Bibliography Index.
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In the late-nineteenth century, British travelers to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands compiled wide-ranging collections of material culture for scientific instruction and personal satisfaction. Colonial Collecting and Display follows the compelling history of a particular set of such objects, tracing their physical and conceptual transformation from objects of indigenous use to accessioned objects in a museum collection in the south of England. This first study dedicated to the historical collecting and display of the Islands' material cultures develops a new analysis of colonial discourse, using a material culture-led approach to reconceptualize imperial relationships between Andamanese, Nicobarese, and British communities, both in the Bay of Bengal and on British soil. It critiques established conceptions of the act of collecting, arguing for recognition of how indigenous makers and consumers impacted upon "British" collection practices, and querying the notion of a homogenous British approach to material culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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• Introduction : the historical location and conceptual framing of Afghanistan
• Financing the Kabul produce
• Contracting nomadic carriage for an aquatic agenda
• Fiscal instability and state revenue reformulation during the first British occupation
• Capital concentrations and coordinations : Peshawar subsidies and Kabul workshops
• New state texts and old commercial flows
• Mutual evasion between Afghanistan and the global marketplace
• Conclusion : deflecting colonial canons and cannons : alternate routes to knowing Afghanistan.

Most histories of nineteenth-century Afghanistan argue that the country remained immune to the colonialism emanating from British India because, militarily, Afghan defenders were successful in keeping out British imperial invaders. However, despite these military victories, colonial influences still made their way into Afghanistan. Looking closely at commerce in and between Kabul, Peshawar, and Qandahar, this book reveals how local Afghan nomads and Indian bankers responded to state policies on trade. British colonial political emphasis on Kabul had significant commercial consequences both for the city itself and for the cities it displaced to become the capital of the emerging Afghan state. Focused on routing between three key markets, Connecting Histories in Afghanistan challenges the overtly political tone and Orientalist bias that characterize classic colonialism and much contemporary discussion of Afghanistan.
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• Contents: Preface-- Introduction--
• 1926: the General Strike and the coal dispute--
• 1927: the Trade Disputes Act and the Prayer Book controversy--
• 1928: the de-rating scheme and the liberal revival--
• 1929: the General Election and the Irwin Declaration--
• 1930: the Conservative Party crisis and the round table conference--
• 1931: the survival of Baldwin and the Irwin-Gandhi pact-- Index.
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Whilst serving in the prestigious post of Viceroy of India between 1926 and 1931, Lord Irwin (later the Earl of Halifax) was kept informed about political events in Britain by frequent and lengthy letters from Cabinet Ministers, senior Conservative MPs and other prominent figures, such as the editor of The Times. Covering events from the General Strike of May 1926 to Irwin's negotiation of a pact with Gandhi in March 1931, these private and previously unpublished letters mix analysis and gossip. They offer a frank account from within the highest political circles of the Baldwin government of 1924-29 and the serious crisis in the Conservative Party which followed in 1929-31. There is also much commentary on major figures such as Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill and Ramsay MacDonald. Of great depth and richness, and emanating from experienced and shrewd political insiders, this collection is an essential historical source for British history between the two world wars.
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• Introduction : a Gandhian theory of text
• Printing cultures in the Indian Ocean world
• Gandhi's printing press : a biography
• Indian Opinion : texts in transit
• Binding pamphlets, summarizing India
• A Gandhian theory of reading : the reader as satyagrahi
• Conclusion : "no rights reserved"
• Appendix : pamphlets reprinted from Indian Opinion.

At the same time that Gandhi, as a young lawyer in South Africa, began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper. Gandhi's Printing Press is an account of how this project, an apparent footnote to a titanic career, shaped the man who would become the world-changing Mahatma. Pioneering publisher, experimental editor, ethical anthologist-these roles reveal a Gandhi developing the qualities and talents that would later define him. Isabel Hofmeyr presents a detailed study of Gandhi's work in South Africa (1893-1914), when he was the some-time proprietor of a printing press and launched the periodical Indian Opinion. The skills Gandhi honed as a newspaperman-distilling stories from numerous sources, circumventing shortages of type-influenced his spare prose style. Operating out of the colonized Indian Ocean world, Gandhi saw firsthand how a global empire depended on the rapid transmission of information over vast distances. He sensed that communication in an industrialized age was becoming calibrated to technological tempos. But he responded by slowing the pace, experimenting with modes of reading and writing focused on bodily, not mechanical, rhythms. Favoring the use of hand-operated presses, he produced a newspaper to contemplate rather than scan, one more likely to excerpt Thoreau than feature easily glossed headlines. Gandhi's Printing Press illuminates how the concentration and self-discipline inculcated by slow reading, imbuing the self with knowledge and ethical values, evolved into satyagraha, truth-force, the cornerstone of Gandhi's revolutionary idea of nonviolent resistance.
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When Gandhi as a young lawyer in South Africa began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper, Indian Opinion. In Gandhi's Printing Press Isabel Hofmeyr provides an account of how this footnote to a career shaped the man who would become the world-changing Mahatma.
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• Introduction-- Part I. Economic Governance:
• 1. Property between law and political economy--
• 2. The dilemmas of social economy-- Part II. The Politics of Personal Law:
• 3. Hindu law as a regime of rights--
• 4. Custom and human value in the debates on Hindu marriage--
• 5. Law, community, and belonging-- Conclusion.
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From the early days of colonial rule in India, the British established a two-tier system of legal administration. Matters deemed secular were subject to British legal norms, while suits relating to the family were adjudicated according to Hindu or Muslim law, known as personal law. This important new study analyses the system of personal law in colonial India through a re-examination of women's rights. Focusing on Hindu law in western India, it challenges existing scholarship, showing how - far from being a system based on traditional values - Hindu law was developed around ideas of liberalism, and that this framework encouraged questions about equality, women's rights, the significance of bodily difference, and more broadly the relationship between state and society. Rich in archival sources, wide-ranging and theoretically informed, this book illuminates how personal law came to function as an organising principle of colonial governance and of nationalist political imaginations.
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• Preface Introduction The Governors: Their Constitutional, Legal and Personal Standing The Montford Reforms and Dyarchy The Governors' Contribution to the Simon Commission The Dominion Status Declaration and First Round Table Conference Communal Tensions and the Detenu Issue Communism, Terrorism and Countermeasures The Challenge of Bardoli and Lessons Learnt The Direct Challenge of Congress, Gandhi and the Civil Disobedience Movement Conclusion
• Appendix 1: Instrument of Instructions Issued to Governors
• Appendix 2: Preamble to: The Consolidated Government of India Act, 1919
• Appendix 3: The Governors of British India and Secretaries of State During Lord Irwin's Viceroyalty: 3 April 1926-18 April 1931 Glossary Bibliography Author Index Subject Index.
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This book explores the nature and impact of the governor's role in developing government policy, and the consequent effect in British India. Analysing the governors' approaches towards and influence on Indian nationalism and other matters, it examines Lord Irwin's era due to its importance in India's constitutional development. The book explores the governors' contributions to British policy responses towards: the Montford Reforms and dyarchy; the Simon Commission; the Dominion Status Declaration; the First Round Table Conference; communal tensions; the detenu issue; communism, terrorism, Bardoli; Gandhi, civil disobedience and insurgency. It is introduced by an exposition of their constitutional, legal and personal standing in India.
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• The construction of historical memory: sites and processes
• The many pasts of the Indian subcontinent
• Social structure and historical narration in western India
• Western historiography and colonial history in British India.

"Sumit Guha considers South Asian traditions of social and historical memory in the context of world history, identifying the influence of varying forms of socio-political organization on precolonial regional and linguistic patterns of historical memory. These traditions shaped the historiographic legacy that was inherited by the British imperial era in India. Guha explores the ways in which socially objective historical memory has been made in South Asia through the past eight centuries. The latter part of that period was one in which Asia had to deal with the impact of the West, not only politically and economically, but also through the hegemony of Western modes of thought, especially history. Drawing on sources in a range of languages, Guha establishes the first intellectual history of the precolonial traditions of historiography in diverse Indian regions. He emphasizes the social context of historical thought, while noting that "the frame does not make the painting, even though a canvas will fall limply underfoot without a frame to hold it." The Social Frame of Historical Memory contributes to far-reaching historiographical debates, which intensified in the Anglo-American world during the 1990s as historians responded to the post-modern critique of knowledge. Arguments around the objectivity of historians' practices continue to intensify following Oxford Dictionaries' selection of "post-truth" as the Word of the Year for 2016, and as accusations of "fake news" complicate the public's understanding of objectivity and documentation. This volume is thus a timely contribution to the study of history within the global setting"-- Provided by publisher.

• List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Empire Recentered
• 1. Governing Colonial Peoples
• 2. Constructing Identities
• 3. Projecting Power: The Indian Army Overseas
• 4. Recruiting Sikhs for Colonial Police and Military
• 5. "Hard Hands and Sound Healthy Bodies": Recruiting "Coolies" for Natal
• 6. India in East Africa Conclusion List of Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Index.
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An innovative remapping of empire, "Imperial Connections" offers a broad-ranging view of the workings of the British Empire in the period when the India of the Raj stood at the center of a newly globalized system of trade, investment, and migration. Thomas R. Metcalf argues that India itself became a nexus of imperial power that made possible British conquest, control, and governance across a wide arc of territory stretching from Africa to eastern Asia. His book, offering a new perspective on how imperialism operates, emphasizes transcolonial interactions and webs of influence that advanced the interests of colonial India and Britain alike.Metcalf examines such topics as law codes and administrative forms as they were shaped by Indian precedents; the Indian Army's role in securing Malaya, Africa, and Mesopotamia for the empire; the employment of Indians, especially Sikhs, in colonial policing; and the transformation of East Africa into what was almost a province of India through the construction of the Uganda railway. He concludes with a look at the decline of this Indian Ocean system after 1920 and considers how far India's participation in it opened opportunities for Indians to be a colonizing, as well as a colonized people.
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