The scandal of empire : India and the creation of imperial Britain / Nicholas B. Dirks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dirks, Nicholas B., 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818--Trials, litigation, etc.

Hastings, Warren.

Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.

Burke, Edmund.

East India Company--History--18th century.

East India Company.

Political corruption--India--History--18th century.

Political corruption.

India--Colonization--History--18th century.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 389 p. ) ill., ports.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. In this powerfully written critique, Nicholas 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.

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

Notes

Illustration Credits

Index

Notes:

Originally published: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674034266

0674034260

OCLC:

1013955139