Dawning of the Raj - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dawning of the Raj write by Jeremy Bernstein. This book was released on 2000. Dawning of the Raj available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Warren Hastings, Britain's first governor-elect of India, was in the 18th century the person most responsible for the creation of British rule in India, according to the author. Hastings' eventual and dramatic impeachment forms the conclusion to Bernstein's unusual and powerful narrative. 12 illustrations.
Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India
Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India write by Robert Travers. This book was released on 2007-04-19. Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Scandal of Empire
The Scandal of Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Scandal of Empire write by Nicholas B. Dirks. This book was released on 2009-07-01. The Scandal of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many have told of the East India Company’s extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one of these men—Warren Hastings—was put on trial by Edmund Burke, it brought the Company’s exploits to the attention of the public. Through the trial and after, the British government transformed public understanding of the Company’s corrupt actions by creating an image of a vulnerable India that needed British assistance. Intrusive behavior was recast as a civilizing mission. In this fascinating, and devastating, account of the scandal that laid the foundation of the British Empire, Nicholas Dirks explains how this substitution of imperial authority for Company rule helped erase the dirty origins of empire and justify the British presence in India. The Scandal of Empire reveals that the conquests and exploitations of the East India Company were critical to England’s development in the eighteenth century and beyond. We see how mercantile trade was inextricably linked with imperial venture and scandalous excess and how these three things provided the ideological basis for far-flung British expansion. In this powerfully written and trenchant critique, Dirks shows how the empire projected its own scandalous behavior onto India itself. By returning to the moment when the scandal of empire became acceptable we gain a new understanding of the modern culture of the colonizer and the colonized and the manifold implications for Britain, India, and the world.
National Portrait Gallery Mid-Georgian Portraits, 1760-1790
National Portrait Gallery Mid-Georgian Portraits, 1760-1790 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook National Portrait Gallery Mid-Georgian Portraits, 1760-1790 write by John Ingamells. This book was released on 2004. National Portrait Gallery Mid-Georgian Portraits, 1760-1790 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This catalogue includes such famous figures as David Garrick and Dr Samuel Johnson, Sarah Siddons and Emma Hamilton, and the work of such artists as Gainsborough, Reynolds and Romney. It has been compiled by one of the leading authorities on 18th-century English portraiture, John Ingamells.
Warren Hastings
Warren Hastings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Warren Hastings write by Michael Edwardes. This book was released on 1976. Warren Hastings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
