Introduction to the Series. Acknowledgements. Maps. Preface. Note on Spelling. Chronology. PART ONE: INTRODUCTION. 1. BACKGROUND AND HISTORIOGRAPHY. PART TWO: ANALYSIS. 2. EMPIRES AND ENTREPRENEURS, 1700-65. 3. CONQUEST AND CONSOLIDATION, 1765-1857. 4. REBELLION AND RECONSTRUCTION, 1857-1885. PART THREE: ASSESSMENT. 5. THE LEGACIES OF EMPIRE IN BRITAIN AND INDIA. PART FOUR: DOCUMENTS. Glossary. Who’s Who. Further Reading. References. Index.
Biography
Douglas Peers teaches Indian and Imperial History at the University of Calgary. Previous publications include Between Mars and Mammon: Colonial Armies and the Garrison State in Nineteenth-Century India (1995), co-edited books on J.S. Mill and India and on India in the Victorian mass media, and articles on many different aspects of Indian military, literary and political history.
