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Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India
The British in Bengal
A study of British politics and political thought in Bengal in the eighteenth century.
Robert Travers (Author)
9780521050036, Cambridge University Press
Paperback / softback, published 17 December 2007
296 pages
22.8 x 15.3 x 1.6 cm, 0.439 kg
'\u2026rich and important\u2026' Journal of Modern Asian Studies
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 constitut]
Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India The British in Bengal Travers
Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India
The British in Bengal
A study of British politics and political thought in Bengal in the eighteenth century.
Robert Travers (Author)
9780521050036, Cambridge University Press
Paperback / softback, published 17 December 2007
296 pages
22.8 x 15.3 x 1.6 cm, 0.439 kg
'\u2026rich and important\u2026' Journal of Modern Asian Studies
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 constitut]
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