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| Acknowledgements | |
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| The Company Ascendant: 1740-84 | |
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| Prologue: Mughal Twilight | |
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| A Glorious Prospect: Robert Clive's Wars, 1740-55 | |
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| New Strength from Conquest: Bengal, 1755-65 | |
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| An Empire Within an Empire: British Reactions to Indian Conquests | |
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| The Conquest of India: 1784-1856 | |
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| No Retreat: Grand Strategy and Small Wars, 1784-1826 | |
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| The Cossack and the Sepoy: Misadventures of an Asian Power, 1826-42 | |
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| The cast of a Die: The Sind and the Sikhs, 1843-49 | |
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| Robust Bodies and Obstinate Minds: An Anatomy of Conquest | |
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| The Raj Consolidated: 1784-1856 | |
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| European Gentlemen: India's New Ruling Class | |
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| Utility and Beneficence: British Visions and Indian Realities | |
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| Gradual and Mild Correction: Taxing and Policing India | |
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| A Hearty Desire: Sex, Religion and the Raj | |
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| The Mutiny: 1857-59 | |
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| The Sahib Paid No Attention: The Raj Imperilled, January-July 1857 | |
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| Very Harrowing Work: The Raj Resurgent, August 1857-January 1859 | |
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| Like Elephants on Heat: Anglo-Indian Reactions to the Mutiny | |
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| Triumphs and Tremors: 1860-1914 | |
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| Low and Steady Pressure: The Exercise of Absolute Power | |
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| Not as Relics but as Rulers: India's Princes | |
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| We are British Subjects: Loyalty and Dissent, 1860-1905 | |
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| Not Worth the Candle: Wars, Real and Imaginary, 1854-1914 | |
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| Never at Peace: India's Frontiers and Armies | |
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| Conciliatory Sugar Plums: Compromise and Coercion, 1906-14 | |
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| Disturbances and Departures: 1914-48 | |
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| True to Our Salt: India and the First World War, 1914-18 | |
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| Strong Passion: Amritsar and After, 1919-22 | |
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| This Wonderful Land: Anglo-Indian Perspectives | |
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| A Great Trial of Strength: Power Struggles, 1922-42 | |
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| A Bad Knock: India at War, January-July 1942 | |
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| An Occupied and Hostile Country: India at War, August 1942-August 1945 | |
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| What Are We Here For?: September 1945-February 1947 | |
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| Was It Too Quick?: Dividing and Departing, March-September 1947 | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |