TY  - BOOK
AU  - Travers,Robert
TI  - Ideology and empire in eighteenth century India: the British in Bengal 
T2  - Cambridge studies in Indian history and society
SN  - 0511285744
AV  - DS485.B48 T73 2007eb
U1  - 954/.140296 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - East India Company
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - fast
KW  - Legitimacy of governments
KW  - India
KW  - Bengal
KW  - Légitimité des gouvernements
KW  - Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde)
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Asia
KW  - India & South Asia
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Colonization
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Bengal (India)
KW  - Bengale (Inde)
KW  - Colonisation
KW  - Multi-User
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-268) and index; Imperium in imperio : The East India company, the British Empire and the revolutions in Bengal, 1757-1772 -- Colonial encounters and the crisis in Bengal, 1765-1772 -- Warren Hastings and 'the legal forms of Mogul government', 1772-1774 -- Philip Francis and the 'country government' -- Sovereignty, custom and natural law : The Calcutta Supreme Court, 1774-1781 -- Reconstituting empire, c. 1780-1793
N2  - 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 constitution, British political concepts were redeployed and redefined on the Indian frontier of empire, while stereotypes about 'oriental despotism' were challenged by the encounter with sophisticated Indian state forms. This highly original book uncovers a forgotten style of imperial state-building based on constitutional restoration, and in the process opens up new points of connection between British, imperial and South Asian history
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