Empire of Influence
The East India Company and the Making of Indirect Rule
Seiten
2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-31173-1 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-31173-1 (ISBN)
An important new account of how the East India Company established a transregional system of indirect rule in India in the early nineteenth century. Callie Wilkinson argues that the formation of the Company's empire of influence is a story of debate, resistance and uncertainty.
Indirect rule is widely considered as a defining feature of the nineteenth and twentieth century British Empire but its divisive earlier history remains largely unexplored. Empire of Influence traces the contentious process whereby the East India Company established a system of indirect rule in India in the first decades of the nineteenth century. In a series of thematic chapters covering intelligence gathering, violence, gift giving and the co-optation of the scribal and courtly elite, Callie Wilkinson foregrounds the disagreement surrounding the tactics of the political representatives of the Company and recaptures the experimental nature of early attempts to secure Company control. She demonstrates how these endeavours were reshaped, exploited and resisted by Indians as well as disputed within the Company itself. This important new account exposes the contested origins of these ambiguous relationships of 'protection' and coercion, while identifying the factors that enabled them to take hold and endure.
Indirect rule is widely considered as a defining feature of the nineteenth and twentieth century British Empire but its divisive earlier history remains largely unexplored. Empire of Influence traces the contentious process whereby the East India Company established a system of indirect rule in India in the first decades of the nineteenth century. In a series of thematic chapters covering intelligence gathering, violence, gift giving and the co-optation of the scribal and courtly elite, Callie Wilkinson foregrounds the disagreement surrounding the tactics of the political representatives of the Company and recaptures the experimental nature of early attempts to secure Company control. She demonstrates how these endeavours were reshaped, exploited and resisted by Indians as well as disputed within the Company itself. This important new account exposes the contested origins of these ambiguous relationships of 'protection' and coercion, while identifying the factors that enabled them to take hold and endure.
Callie Wilkinson is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Postdoctoral Fellow at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
List of Figures; List of Maps; Acknowledgements; Note on Translation and Transliteration; Chronology; List of Abbreviations; Maps; Introduction; 1. A Time of Trouble; 2. Negotiating the disinformation order; 3. Warfare and 'wanton provocations'; 4. The price of pageantry; 5. Weak ties in a tangled web; 6. Kinship, gender, and dynastic dramas; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.03.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 611 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-31173-5 / 1009311735 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-31173-1 / 9781009311731 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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