Robert Travers is Assistant Professor in History at Cornell University. He has written articles in Modern Asian Studies, the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, and Past and Present.

'…rich and important…' Journal of Modern Asian Studies

• Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations and note on currency; Glossary of Indian terms; Map of Bengal and and Bihar in the eighteenth-century; Introduction; 1. Imperium in imperio: the East India Company, the British empire and the revolutions in Bengal, 1757–72; 2. Colonial encounters and the crisis in Bengal, 1765–72; 3. Warren Hastings and 'the legal forms of Mogul government', 1772–4; 4. Philip Francis and the 'country government'; 5. Sovereignty, custom and natural law: the Calcutta Supreme Court, 1774–81; 6. Reconstituting empire, c.1780–93; 7. Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

Robert Travers is Assistant Professor in History at Cornell University. He has written articles in Modern Asian Studies, the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, and Past and Present.

'…rich and important…' Journal of Modern Asian Studies

• Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations and note on currency; Glossary of Indian terms; Map of Bengal and and Bihar in the eighteenth-century; Introduction; 1. Imperium in imperio: the East India Company, the British empire and the revolutions in Bengal, 1757–72; 2. Colonial encounters and the crisis in Bengal, 1765–72; 3. Warren Hastings and 'the legal forms of Mogul government', 1772–4; 4. Philip Francis and the 'country government'; 5. Sovereignty, custom and natural law: the Calcutta Supreme Court, 1774–81; 6. Reconstituting empire, c.1780–93; 7. Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

Robert Travers is Assistant Professor in History at Cornell University. He has written articles in Modern Asian Studies, the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, and Past and Present.

'…rich and important…' Journal of Modern Asian Studies

• Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations and note on currency; Glossary of Indian terms; Map of Bengal and and Bihar in the eighteenth-century; Introduction; 1. Imperium in imperio: the East India Company, the British empire and the revolutions in Bengal, 1757–72; 2. Colonial encounters and the crisis in Bengal, 1765–72; 3. Warren Hastings and 'the legal forms of Mogul government', 1772–4; 4. Philip Francis and the 'country government'; 5. Sovereignty, custom and natural law: the Calcutta Supreme Court, 1774–81; 6. Reconstituting empire, c.1780–93; 7. Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.