Creating an early colonial order : conquest and contestation in South Asia, c.1775-1807 / Manu Sehgal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sehgal, Manu, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.

India.

South Asia--History, Military--18th century.

South Asia.

East India Company.

Genre:

History.

Military history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

By the end of the eighteenth century, war-making and the East India Company's violent conquest of South Asia created an 'early colonial order'. This distinctive early colonial order comprised of a political economy of conquest marked by repeated financial crises, a new regime of laws, ideological innovations justifying expensive warfare, changing conceptions of sovereignty, and the privileging of military over civilian power. This early colonial order was followed by an authoritarian, militarily dominant British Raj and continues to profoundly influence postcolonial South Asian polities. By drawing on a diverse range of archival documents and later studies, Manu Sehgal makes an important intervention in historiographical debates about eighteenth-century South Asian history and the centrality of violence to colonial rule.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 23, 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-099217-4