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

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The New Cambridge History of India: Bengal: The British Bridgehead: Eastern India 1740-1828 P.The New Cambridge History ... Textbook J. Marshall
Type:	eBook
Released:	1988
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Page Count:	204
Format:	pdf
Language:	English
ISBN-10:	0521253306
ISBN-13:	9780521253307

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.