Chapter 1 – Introduction
Chapter 2 – Prize Procedures and Prize Laws
Chapter 3 – The British Crown and the East India Company
Chapter 4 – The Fog of Prize, 1817-1850
Chapter 5 -- An Orgy of Plunder and Prize Reform
Chapter 6 – The Banda and Kirwee Booty Case
Chapter 7 -- The Engine of Litigation:
The Promissory Notes of the Raos of Kirwee
Chapter 8 – The Demise of Prize
Chapter 9 – Conclusion
Afterword
Appendix I – Scale of Shares Seringapatam
Appendix II – Share Distribution in 1860 Reform
Appendix III – Share distribution, Indian Army
Appendix IV – Peking Distribution
Bibliography
Biography
James L. Hevia is Professor Emeritus in the History Department and the College at the University of Chicago. His research has involved Anglo-Chinese relations in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and military intelligence and logistics of the British Indian Army. His most recent publications are Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare and “Diplomacy through Rituals in the Qing Empire, in the Cambridge History of International Law, Vol. 2, International Law in Asia.
