Creating an early colonial order

• Verfasst von: Sehgal, Manu [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Creating an early colonial order
• Titelzusatz: conquest and contestation in South Asia, c.1775-1807
• Verf.angabe: Manu Sehgal
• Verlagsort: New Delhi
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Jahr: 2021
• Umfang: lviii, 270 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Diagramme, Karten
• Fussnoten: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
• ISBN: 978-0-19-012450-2
• Schlagwörter: (g)Südasien / (s)Kolonialismus / (s)Politische Ordnung / (z)Geschichte 1775-1807
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1780079923

Abstract

Table of Contents -- List of Maps and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Organizing Warfare and Diplomacy in Western India, 1778-83 -- Chapter 2 "Stranger to relate yet wonderfully true": Civil-Military relations in the Madras Presidency, c. 1780-89 -- Chapter 3 Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Law:Problems of Peace at Bombay and Madras, c.1782-86 -- Chapter 4 Political Economy of Conquest: Public Finance and Colonial Warfare -- Chapter 5 The Company State at War: Restructuring the Early Colonial Order, c.1798-1805 -- Chapter 6 Creating a 'Pure and Simple Dsepotism': British Politics and Colonial Warfare, 1803-7 -- Epilogue: Lineages of Illiberal Rule in South Asia -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author