James L. Hevia is Professor Emeritus in the History Department and the College at the University of Chicago. His research has involved Anglo-Chinese relations in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and military intelligence and logistics of the British Indian Army. His most recent publications are Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare and 'Diplomacy through Rituals in the Qing Empire,' in the Cambridge History of International Law, Vol. 2, International Law in Asia.

• 1 – Introduction. 2 – Prize Procedures and Prize Laws. 3 – The British Crown and the East India Company. 4 – The Fog of Prize, 1817-1850. 5 -- An Orgy of Plunder and Prize Reform. 6 – The Banda and Kirwee Booty Case. 7 -- The Engine of Litigation: The Promissory Notes of the Raos of Kirwee. 8 – The Demise of Prize. 9 – Conclusion. Afterword. Appendix I – Scale of Shares Seringapatam. Appendix II – Share Distribution in 1860 Reform. Appendix III – Share distribution, Indian Army. Appendix IV – Peking Distribution

James L. Hevia is Professor Emeritus in the History Department and the College at the University of Chicago. His research has involved Anglo-Chinese relations in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and military intelligence and logistics of the British Indian Army. His most recent publications are Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare and 'Diplomacy through Rituals in the Qing Empire,' in the Cambridge History of International Law, Vol. 2, International Law in Asia.

• 1 – Introduction. 2 – Prize Procedures and Prize Laws. 3 – The British Crown and the East India Company. 4 – The Fog of Prize, 1817-1850. 5 -- An Orgy of Plunder and Prize Reform. 6 – The Banda and Kirwee Booty Case. 7 -- The Engine of Litigation: The Promissory Notes of the Raos of Kirwee. 8 – The Demise of Prize. 9 – Conclusion. Afterword. Appendix I – Scale of Shares Seringapatam. Appendix II – Share Distribution in 1860 Reform. Appendix III – Share distribution, Indian Army. Appendix IV – Peking Distribution