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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Outrage in Calcutta | |
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| The Travels of a Monument | |
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| Old Fort William | |
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| A New Nawab | |
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| The Fall of Calcutta | |
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| The Aftermath of Defeat | |
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| The "Genuine" Narrative | |
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| Reconquest and More | |
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| Whose Revolution? | |
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| A Secret Veil | |
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| The Conquest in History | |
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| The Age of Plunder | |
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| Early Histories of Conquest | |
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| The Modem State and Modem Empires | |
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| The Nabobs Come Home | |
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| The Critique of Conquest | |
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| Tipu�s Tiger | |
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| A Bengali in Britain | |
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| Contemporary Indian Histories | |
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| The Early Modern in South Asia | |
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| The Early Modern as a Category of Transition | |
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| Niti versus Dharma | |
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| An Early Modern History of Bengal | |
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| Tipu as an Early Modern Absolute Monarch | |
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| The Tiger of Mysore | |
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| The Mysore Family in Calcutta | |
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| Liberty of the Subject | |
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| The New Fort William | |
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| The Early Press in Calcutta | |
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| The Strength of Constitution | |
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| The Making of Early Modern Citizens | |
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| Other Early Modern Institutions | |
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| Equality of Subjects | |
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| The Falsehood of All Religions | |
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| The Colonization of Barbarous Countries | |
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| Citizens of Character and Capital | |
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| The Unsung End of Early Modernity | |
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| For the Happiness of Mankind | |
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| The Founding of a Myth | |
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| The Utility of Empire | |
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| The Morality of Empire | |
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| The Myth Refurbished | |
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| The Pedagogy of Violence | |
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| The Law of Nations in the East | |
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| Dalhousie and Paramountcy | |
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| Awadh under British Protection | |
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| The Road to Annexation | |
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| Awadh Annexed | |
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| Imperialism: Liberal and Antiliberal | |
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| A Chimerical Lucknow | |
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| The Pedagogy of Culture | |
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| The Contradictions of Colonial Modernity | |
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| The City and the Public | |
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| The New Bengali Theater | |
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| Shedding a Tear for Siraj | |
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| On the Poetic and Historical Imaginations | |
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| Siraj and the National-Popular | |
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| The Dramatic Form of the National-Popular | |
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| Surveillance and Proscription | |
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| Bombs, Sovereignty, and Football | |
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| The New Memorial | |
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| The Scramble for Empire | |
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| The Normalization of the, Nation-State | |
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| Violence and the Motherland | |
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| Early Actions | |
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| Strategies and Tactics | |
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| Igniting the Imagination | |
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| Football as a Manly Sport | |
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| Football and Nationalism | |
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| Official Responses | |
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| The Later Phase | |
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| The Death and Everlasting Life of Empire | |
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| A Gigantic Hoax | |
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| We Are Kings of the Country, and the Rest Are Slaves | |
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| Siraj, Once More on Stage | |
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| Endgames of Empire | |
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| Empire Today | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |