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Robert Travers' analysis of British conquests in late eighteenth-century India shows how new ideas were formulated about the construction of empire. After the British East India Company conquered the vast province of Bengal, Britons confronted the apparent anomaly of a European trading company acting as an Indian ruler. Responding to a prolonged crisis of imperial legitimacy, British officials in Bengal tried to build their authority on the basis of an 'ancient constitution', supposedly discovered among the remnants of the declining Mughal Empire. In the search for an indigenous constitution, British political concepts were redeployed and redefined on the Indian frontier of empire, while stereotypes about 'oriental despotism' were challenged by the encounter with sophisticated Indian state forms. This highly original book uncovers a forgotten style of imperial state-building based on constitutional restoration, and in the process opens up new points of connection between British, imperial and South Asian history.

Legitimacy of governments --- Governments, Legitimacy of --- Legitimacy (Constitutional law) --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Revolutions --- Sovereignty --- State, The --- General will --- Political stability --- Regime change --- History --- East India Company --- Governor and Company of Merchants of London, Trading into the East Indies --- United Company of Merchants of England, Trading to the East Indies --- English East India Company --- East India Company (English) --- East India Tea Company --- East-India Companie --- United East India Company --- Compagnie des Indes orientales d'Angleterre --- Compagnie unie de marchands d'Angleterre commerçans aux Indes orientales --- Tung Yin-tu kung ssu --- Honourable East-India Company --- Sharikat al-Hind al-Sharqīyah al-Barīṭānīyah --- Engelse Oost-Indische Maatschappy --- Kumpanī-i Hind-i Sharqī --- کمپنى هند شرقى --- English Company Trading to the East-Indies --- Bengal (India) --- Bengal --- Fort William (India) --- Presidency of Fort William (India) --- Bengale (India) --- Baṅgāla (India) --- Eastern Bengal and Assam (India) --- West Bengal (India) --- East Bengal (Pakistan) --- Politics and government --- Colonization --- Īsṭa Iṇḍiyā Kampanī --- Arts and Humanities

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eebo-0158

Burlington, Richard Boyle, --- Ormonde, James Butler, --- Orrery, Roger Boyle, --- Vavasour, Charles, --- Ireland --- Great Britain --- History

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eebo-0018

Barrymore, David Fitz-David Barry, --- Musgrave, --- O'Neill, Phelim, --- Roche, Maurice, --- Ireland --- History

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eebo-0018

Burlington, Richard Boyle, --- Ormonde, James Butler, --- Orrery, Roger Boyle, --- Vavasour, Charles, --- Ireland --- Great Britain --- History