The scandal of empire : India and the creation of imperial Britain /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dirks, Nicholas B., 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Hastings, Warren, > 1732-1818 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Burke, Edmund, > 1729-1797.
Hastings, Warren, > 1732-1818.
East India Company > History > 18th century.
East India Company.
1700-1799
Political corruption > India > History > 18th century.
Corruption (Politique) > Inde > Histoire > 18e siècle.
HISTORY.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Colonization.
Political corruption.
India > Colonization > History > 18th century.
India.
History.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Prologue
  • 1. Scandal
  • 2. Corruption
  • 3. Spectacle
  • 4. Economy
  • 5. Sovereignty
  • 6. State
  • 7. History
  • 8. Tradition
  • 9. Empire
  • Notes
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index.

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