H. V. Bowen

Revenue and Reform

The Indian Problem in British Politics 1757 1773

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Revenue and Reform offers a reappraisal of British imperial politics in the third quarter of the eighteenth century. It is traditional to regard the 1760s as a time when British politicians were preoccupied with the crises that eventually led to the outbreak of the American War of Independence. In this book, however, it is the Indian problem that is examined. Politicians struggled to come to terms with the East India Company's unexpected acquisition of territory and great wealth in Bengal, and they endeavored to formulate policy related to many new and unfamiliar issues. New light is shed on debate about revenue collection, territorial rights, diplomacy, justice, and administrative reform in order to illustrate the central theme of the book: the gradual and reluctant assumption of responsibility by ministers for the Indian empire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780521403160
• ISBN-10: 0521403162
• Artikelnr.: 22092504

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables
Preface
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Traders into sovereigns: the East India Company, 1757-1765
2. Perceptions of empire
3. The policy-makers: Parliament and the East India Company
4. Crown and Company (I): the Diwani and the inquiry of 1767
5. Crown and Company (II): foreign relations, 1766-1769
6. Attempts at reform (I): civil, military, and judicial affairs, 1767-1772
7. Attempts at reform (II): trade and revenue, 1767-1772
8. The East India Company crisis of 1772
9. Response to crisis (I): high politics and the committees of inquiry, 1772-1773
10. Response to crisis (II): trade, finance, and reform
11. The final act? the passage of Lord North's East India legislation, 1773
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Index.