Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India: The British in Bengal Book

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, 1757–1772; 2. Colonial encounters and the crisis in Bengal, 1765–1772; 3. Warren Hastings and 'the legal forms of Mogul government', 1772–1774; 4. Philip Francis and the 'country government'; 5. Sovereignty, custom and natural law: the Calcutta Supreme Court, 1774–1781; 6. Reconstituting empire, c. 1780–1793; 7. Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.