Author: Edward James RapsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
The Cambridge History of India: British India, 1497-1858, edited by J.H. Dodwell
Author: Edward James RapsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
The Cambridge History of India: British India, 1497-1858, edited by H. H. Dodwell
Author: The Cambridge History of India: The Indian Empire, 1858-1918, with chapters on the development of administration, 1818-1858, edited by H. H. Dodwell
Author: Edward James RapsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Sir John Malcolm and the Creation of British India
Author: J. HarringtonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230117503
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Through his writings, the leading East India Company servant, Sir John Malcolm helped to shape the historical thought of British empire-building in India. This book uses his works to examine the intellectual history of British expansion in South Asia, and shed light on the history of orientalism and indirect rule and the formation of British power.
The Cambridge Economic History of India: Volume 1, C.1200-c.1750
Author: Tapan RaychaudhuriPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521226929
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Examines the history of India during the period c. 1200-c. 1750.
Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns
Author: Janice E. ThomsonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140082124X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural, argues Janice Thomson. It is distinctively modern. In this book she examines how the present arrangement of the world into violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved over the six preceding centuries.
Old World Empires
Author: Ilhan NiazPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317913795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
This book is a sweeping historical survey of the origins, development and nature of state power. It demonstrates that Eurasia is home to a dominant tradition of arbitrary rule mediated through military, civil and ecclesiastical servants and a marginal tradition of representative and responsible government through autonomous institutions. The former tradition finds expression in hierarchically organized and ideologically legitimated continental bureaucratic states while the latter manifests itself in the state of laws. In recent times, the marginal tradition has gained in popularity and has led to continental bureaucratic states attempting to introduce democratic and constitutional reforms. These attempts have rarely altered the actual manner in which power is exercised by the state and its elites given the deeper and historically rooted experience of arbitrary rule. Far from being remote, the arbitrary culture of power that emerged in many parts of the world continues to shape the fortunes of states. To ignore this culture of power and the historical circumstances that have shaped it comes at a high price, as indicated by the ongoing democratic recession and erosion of liberal norms within states that are democracies.
Property, Land, Revenue, and Policy
Author: J. Albert RorabacherPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351997335
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
For the first century-and-a-half of its nearly 275 year existence, the English East India Company remained ostensibly a mercantile enterprise, satisfied to simply trade, competing with other European traders. In the middle of the eighteenth century, as a response to French expansion in India, the East India Company redefined itself, becoming an active participant in India’s ‘game of thrones’. Through the use of its military might, only tentatively supported by the English Crown and Parliament, the Company dominated trade, became a king-maker, and ultimately a colonial administrator over much of the Indian Subcontinent. The Company had become a state in the guise of a merchant. The Company consolidated its position in Bengal, then began to exert its power by toppling local potentates and absorbing one princely state after another. Confronted with a land system that was built on custom and tradition, and not law, with no tradition of land ownership, the British were forced to formulate a new land tenure and revenue system for India, one based on British principles of property. Permanent Settlement was the new government’s first attempt at creating a new revenue system. Through its creation, for the first time, private property rights were conferred on the formerly non-landowning zamindars. Which, as this authoritative volume notes in turn, created a land market, destabilizing the political and social structure of India irretrievably.
Birth of a Colonial City
Author: Ranjit SenPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0429638981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Long before Calcutta was ‘discovered’ by Job Charnock, it thrived by the Hugli since times immemorial. This book, and its companion Colonial Calcutta, is a biographical account of the when, the how and the what of a global city and its emergence under colonial rule in the 1800s. Ranjit Sen traces the story of how three clustered villages became the hub of the British Empire and a centre of colonial imagination. He examines the historical and geopolitical factors that were significant in securing its prominence, and its subsequent urbanization which was a colonial experience without an antecedent. Further, it sheds light on Calcutta’s early search for identity — how it superseded interior towns and flourished as the seat of power for its hinterland; developed its early institutions, while its municipal administration slowly burgeoned. A sharp analysis of the colonial enterprise, this volume lays bare the underbelly of the British Raj. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern history, South Asian history, urban studies, British Studies and area studies.
War and Empire
Author: Bruce CollinsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317870778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 533
Book Description
Bringing naval and military campaigns together, this book demonstrates the sheer scale and reach of Britains power during an intense phase of warfare from 1790 to 1830. The book also considers the impact of this period of warfare on the British state, showing how, at the national level, Britain became both the worlds leading commercial country whilst operating as a global military and naval power.