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The New Cambridge History of India Vol. 2.2: Bengal: The British Bridgehead: Eastern India 1740–1828

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Bengal: The British Bridgehead: Eastern India 1740–1828

Series The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 2.2

Author P. J. Marshall

Publication Date 1987

Hardback ISBN-10
0521253306

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521253307

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521253307

Overview

The aim of Bengal: The British Bridgehead is to explain how, in the eighteenth century, Britain established her rule in eastern India, the first part of the subcontinent to be incorporated into the British Empire. Though the British were not in firm control of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa until 1765, to illustrate the circumstances in which they gained power and elucidate the Indian inheritance that so powerfully shaped the early years of their rule, professor Marshall begins his analysis around 1740 with the reign of Alivardi Khan, the last effective Mughal ruler of eastern India. He then explores the social, cultural and economic changes that followed the imposition of foreign rule and seeks to assess the consequences for the peoples of the region; emphasis is given throughout as much to continuities rooted deep in the history of Bengal as to the more obvious effects of British domination. The volume closes in the 1820s when, with British rule firmly established, a new pattern of cultural and economic relations was developing between Britain and eastern India.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see
Bengal: The British Bridgehead: Eastern India 1740–1828 in the Cambridge University Press online
catalogue.

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Frontmatter

The setting for empire

Late Mughal Bengal

The crisis of empire, 1740–65

The new regime

A new society?

Conclusion

Bibliographical Essay

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