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Problems of Empire - Britain and India, 1757-1813 (Hardcover)
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Problems of Empire - Britain and India, 1757-1813 (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: The British Empire
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This book, first published in 1968, is a study of the impact made
on Britain by the conquest of large parts of India in the second
half of the eighteenth century. The sudden success of the East
India Company in subjugating a vast population with a sophisticated
civilization created problems of an unprecedented kind for Britain.
It raised in an acute form questions about the scope and limits of
state action, the rights of chartered bodies, the duties of
conquerors to subject peoples, the appropriateness of exporting
western ideals and concepts of law and government to Asia, and the
manner in which the resources of the East could best contribute to
Britain's power and wealth. These and similar topics were discussed
at length in Parliament, the press, books and pamphlets, and in the
correspondence of private individuals. A selection of this
material, drawing on a wide and varied range of printed and
manuscript sources, has been made to illustrate the arguments used
in this debate and the manner in which solutions to some of the
problems were gradually worked out over a period of more than fifty
years. By 1813, after much trial and error, the outline of the
political, administrative and economic links which were to bind
India to Britain for much of the nineteenth century are already
visible.
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