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The scandal of empire : India and the creation of imperial Britain /
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- Title
- The scandal of empire : India and the creation of imperial Britain /
- Author/Creator
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Dirks, Nicholas B., 1950-
- Publisher
- Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Publisher Date
- 2006.
- Description
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The Scandal of Empire reveals that the conquests and exploitations of the East India Company were critical to England's development in the eighteenth century and beyond. In this powerfully written critique, Nicholas Dirks shows how the empire projected its own scandalous behavior onto India itself. By returning to the moment when the scandal of empire became acceptable, we gain a new understanding of the modern culture of the colonizer and the colonized and the manifold implications for Britain, India, and the world.
- Note
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Originally published: 2006.
- Subject
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Political corruption--India--History--18th century.
India--Colonization--History--18th century.
East India Company--History--18th century.
Hastings, Warren,--1732-1818--Trials, litigation, etc.
Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797.
- Library URL
- 991009799606306306
