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Empires of complaints : Mughal law and the making of British India, 1765-1793
Title
Empires of complaints : Mughal law and the making of British India, 1765-1793 / Robert Travers.
ISBN
9781009123389
1009123386
9781009127882
Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Physical Description
xiv, 280 pages : facsimile, map ; 24 cm.
Summary
"This book shows how British empire-builders in eighteenth century India co-opted and transformed Mughal practices of doing justice to petitioning subjects. Drawing on English and Persian sources, it explores the judicial mechanisms behind colonial state-building, revealing how the British attempted to ground their empire on a reconstituted version of Mughal law"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 26, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-274) and index.
Contents
Petitioning, taxation and law in eighteenth century Bengal : the context for empire
Recasting Mughal law : company justice after 1772
Zamindari succession disputes and persianate Hindu law
'At the Durbar' in Calcutta : Banians, revenue farming, and the politics of landed debt
A Jagirdar's lament : an Indo-Persian historian's appeal to the British Empire
Conclusion : the making and remaking of a colonial judicial state (c.1780-1793).
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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