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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 | |