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Bengal: The British Bridgehead - Eastern India 1740-1828 (Paperback, Revised)
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Bengal: The British Bridgehead - Eastern India 1740-1828 (Paperback, Revised)
Series: The New Cambridge History of India
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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.
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