1. Property, property rights, and land tenure
2. The setting
3. The roots of empire
4. Prelude to an empire in India
5. The bridgehead of Bengal : empire, personalities, and Nawabs
6. Sulivan, leadership, and the conquest of South Asia
7. Company actions and parliamentary reactions : changing social and political ideologies in Britain
8. The rise of the Zamindars
9. The ideological basis of permanent settlement
10. The pivotal questions and the debates
11. Permanent settlement and its aftermath
12. The 'other' British land revenue systems
13. A critical time
1750-1773 : principles, policies, personalities, and ethos.