The Domination of Strangers

The Domination of Strangers
Modern Governance in Eastern India,
1780–1835
Jon E. Wilson

Contents
List of Map and Illustrations viii
Preface and Acknowledgements ix
Abbreviations xi
1 Introduction 1
2 Comparing Eighteenth-Century Polities 19
3 Crisis, Anxiety and the Making of a New Order 45
4 Colonial Indecision and the Origins of the Hindu Joint Family 75
5 Governing the Power of Proprietors 104
6 The State as Machine and the Ambivalent Origins of Colonial
Utilitarianism 133
7 Indian Liberalism and Colonial Utilitarianism 161
8 Reflections 182
Notes 195
Bibliography 223
Index 238

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