The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain by Nicholas B. Dirks

The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain

Nicholas B. Dirks

389 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Many have told of the East India Company's extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one of...

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