Robert Travers

Empires of Complaints (eBook, PDF)

Mughal Law and the Making of British India, 1765-1793

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Produktbeschreibung

Travers explores how Mughal political and legal culture shaped and was reshaped by the British colonial state in Bengal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009302098
• Artikelnr.: 70913677

Autorenporträt

Robert Travers is Associate Professor of History at Cornell University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Petitioning, taxation and law in eighteenth century Bengal: the context for empire
2. Recasting Mughal law: company justice after 1772
3. Zamindari succession disputes and Persianate Hindu law
4. 'At the Durbar' in Calcutta: Banians, revenue farming, and the politics of landed debt
5. A jagirdar's lament: an Indo-Persian historian's appeal to the British empire
6. Conclusion: the making and remaking of a colonial judicial state (c.1780-1793)
Select bibliography.