Robert TraversIdeology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India
The British in Bengal
Robert Travers is Assistant Professor in History at Cornell University. He has written articles in Modern Asian Studies, the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, and Past and Present.
Preface and acknowledgements
Abbreviations and note on currency
Glossary of Indian terms
Map of Bengal and and Bihar in the eighteenth-century
Introduction
1. Imperium in imperio: the East India Company, the British empire and the revolutions in Bengal, 1757-72
2. Colonial encounters and the crisis in Bengal, 1765-72
3. Warren Hastings and 'the legal forms of Mogul government', 1772-4
4. Philip Francis and the 'country government'
5. Sovereignty, custom and natural law: the Calcutta Supreme Court, 1774-81
6. Reconstituting empire, c.1780-93
7. Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.
