Politics, state and empire : colonial warfare and the East India Company State, c.1775-1805

• Main Author: Sehgal, Manu
• Published: University of Exeter 2011
• Subjects: 954.03
• Online Access: http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.744760

The political economy of late eighteenth warfare is a relatively under researched theme in the debates over the establishment of a colonial dispensation in South Asia. This thesis seeks to engage with the changing politics of colonial warfare over the period c. 1775-1805. It is being argued here that the ubiquitous and incessant warfare of the period was productive of a specific early colonial order. The efforts at re-ordering civilian control of the military, effectively exercised by the civilian councils at Madras and Bombay, thus provide a useful entry into contested political terrains where early colonial state formation was transacted.