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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A study of British politics and political thought in Bengal in the eighteenth century. Zusammenfassung A groundbreaking analysis of the construction of the British Empire in late eighteenth-century India. After the conquest of Bengal! Britons confronted the anomaly of a European trading company acting as an Indian ruler! and tried to build their authority on the basis of an 'ancient constitution'! from the Mughal Empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
