Focusing on developments in the Madras presidency between the Rebellion of 1857-58 and independence 90 years later, this book studies the creation of a British

This book offers a bird’s eye view of the economic and environmental history of the Indian peninsula during colonial era. It analyses the nature of colonial l

From the Victorian period to the present, images of the policeman have played a prominent role in the literature of empire, shaping popular perceptions of colon

Today, every continent retains elements of the legal code distributed by the British empire. The British empire created a legal footprint along with political,

As imperial political authority was increasingly challenged, sometimes with violence, locally recruited police forces became the front-line guardians of alien l