Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India : The British in Bengal
Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society
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A groundbreaking analysis of the construction of the British Empire in late eighteenth-century India. After the conquest of Bengal, Britons confronted the anomaly of a European trading company acting as an Indian ruler, and tried to build their authority on the basis of an 'ancient constitution', from the Mughal Empire.
