Bengal: The British Bridgehead: Eastern India 1740-1828 (The New Cambridge History of India) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Bengal: The British Bridgehead: Eastern India 1740-1828 (The New Cambridge History of India) Book

Explains how Britain established her rule in eastern India during the eighteenth century. 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...Read More

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    The pattern of events that allowed Britain to establish her rule in eastern India, as well as their consequences, are traced to reveal the effects of the imposition of foreign rule upon the subcontinent.

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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 sub-continent to be incorporated into the British Empire. Professor Marshall begins his analysis with the reign of Alivardi Khan, the last effective Mughal ruler of eastern India. He then explores the social, cultural, and economic ihanges 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 with British rule firmly established, the arrival of Lord William Bentinck, and the failure of the great Agency Houses.

  • 0521028221
  • 9780521028226
  • P. J. Marshall
  • 2 November 2006
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 216
  • New Ed
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