Robert Travers

Empires of Complaints

Mughal Law and the Making of British India, 1765-1793. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 314 Seiten
ISBN 1009123386
EAN 9781009123389
Veröffentlicht September 2022
Verlag/Hersteller Cambridge University Press
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Beschreibung

"This book shows how British empire-builders in eighteenth century India co-opted and transformed Mughal practices of doing justice to petitioning subjects. Drawing on English and Persian sources, it explores the judicial mechanisms behind colonial state-building, revealing how the British attempted to ground their empire on a reconstituted version of Mughal law"--

Portrait

Robert Travers is Associate Professor of History at Cornell University.