{"product_id":"archives-of-empire-9780822331643","title":"Archives of Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracing the beginnings of the British colonial enterprise in South Asia and the Middle East, this title brings together key texts from the era of the privately owned British East India Company through the crises that led to the Company's takeover by the Crown in 1858. It ends with the momentous opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eArchives of Empire \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a valuable and original intervention in contemporary studies of imperialism, providing a rich array of source material pertaining to the imperial project and the wide-ranging grounds for its critique.”—Anne McClintock, author of \u003ci\u003eImperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Archives of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is a substantial and valuable project containing a generous sampling of key primary texts for understanding both the crucial events in and the debates around British imperialism in the nineteenth century.”—David Lloyd, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xix\u003cbr\u003e General Introduction: Readings in Imperialism and Orientalism xxi\u003cbr\u003e Volume Introduction: From the Company to the Canal 1\u003cbr\u003e I. COMPANY TO CANAL, 1757-1869\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION: Adventure Capitalism: Mercantilism, Militarism, and the British East India Company 13\u003cbr\u003e Chronology of Events 16\u003cbr\u003e List of the Governors and Governors-General of India 17\u003cbr\u003e List of the Newabs of Bengal 18\u003cbr\u003e India under Cornwallis (1792) [map] 19\u003cbr\u003e India under Wellesley (1799) [map] 19\u003cbr\u003e India under Hastings (1832) [map] 20\u003cbr\u003e India under Dalhousie (1856) [map] 20\u003cbr\u003e G.A. (George Alfred) Henty, Excerpt from \u003ci\u003eWith Clive in India\u003c\/i\u003e (n.d.) 21\u003cbr\u003e “Agreement between the Nabob Nudjum-ul-Dowlah and the Company, 12 August 1765” 25\u003cbr\u003e Anonymous, \u003ci\u003eAn Inquiry into the Rights of the East India Company of Making War and Peace\u003c\/i\u003e (1772) 27\u003cbr\u003e East India Company Act, 1773 31\u003cbr\u003e James Mill, “The Constitution of the East India Company” (1817) 39\u003cbr\u003e James Mill, Letter to Durmont (1819) 47\u003cbr\u003e John Stuart Mill. Excerpt from \u003ci\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/i\u003e (1873) 48\u003cbr\u003e Government of India Act, 1833 49\u003cbr\u003e Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Lord Clive” (1840) 59\u003cbr\u003e Samuel Lucas, “The Spoliation of Oude” (1857) 72\u003cbr\u003e Sir Arthur Wellesley, “Memorandum on Marquess Wellesley’s Government of India” (1806) 81\u003cbr\u003e II. ORIENTAL DEPOTISM \u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTON: Oriental Despotisms and Political Economies 89\u003cbr\u003e Baron de Montesquieu, “Distinctive Properties of a Despotic Government” (1746) 92\u003cbr\u003e Baron de Montesquieu, Excerpts from \u003ci\u003ePersian Letters\u003c\/i\u003e (1721) 92\u003cbr\u003e Adam Smith, “America and the East Indies” (1776) 95\u003cbr\u003e Robert Orme, “Of the Government and People of Indostan” (1782) 107\u003cbr\u003e John Stuart Mill, Excerpt from \u003ci\u003eThe Principles of Political Economy\u003c\/i\u003e (1848) 111\u003cbr\u003e John Stuart Mill, Excerpt from “Considerations on Representative Government” (1861) 113\u003cbr\u003e Karl Marx, “On Imperialism in India” (1853) 117\u003cbr\u003e III. THE IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS \u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION: Warren Hastings: Naughty Nabob or National Hero? 131\u003cbr\u003e Warren Hastings, “Warren Hastings to the Court of General Directors, 11 November 1773” 135\u003cbr\u003e Warren Hastings, Excerpt from \u003ci\u003eMemoirs Relative to the State of India \u003c\/i\u003e(1786) 137\u003cbr\u003e Edmund Burke, “Edmund Burke on the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, 15-19 February 1788” 143\u003cbr\u003e Westminister Hall during the trial of Warren Hastings (1788) [illustration] 146\u003cbr\u003e Fanny Burney, Diary Selections (1788) 155\u003cbr\u003e Edmund Burke, “From the Third Day of Edmund Burke’s Speech Opening the Impeachment, 18 February 1788” 160\u003cbr\u003e Warren Hastings, “From the Address of Warren Hastings in His Defence, 2 June 1791” 163\u003cbr\u003e Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Warren Hastings” (1841) 166\u003cbr\u003e IV. THE CASE OF TIPU SULTAN \u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION: Tipu Sultan: Oriental Despot or National Hero? 171\u003cbr\u003e G.A. Henty, Excerpts from \u003ci\u003eThe Tiger of Mysore\u003c\/i\u003e (189?) 173\u003cbr\u003e “Tippoo Sahib at the Lines of Travancore” (1789) [illustration] 174\u003cbr\u003e Major Diram, “Treaties of Peace, and Review of the Consequences of War” (1793) 175\u003cbr\u003e Selected Letters between Tipu and Company Governors-General, 1798-1799 180\u003cbr\u003e Wilkie Collins, “Prologue: The Storming of Seringapatam, 1799” (1869) 195\u003cbr\u003e V. ORIENTALISM \u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION: Orientalism: The East as a Career 203\u003cbr\u003e Mary Shelley, Excerpts from \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e (1813\/1831) 206\u003cbr\u003e Benjamin Disraeli, Excerpt from \u003ci\u003eSibyl, or the Two Nations\u003c\/i\u003e (1845) 208\u003cbr\u003e Definitions from the \u003ci\u003eHobson-Jobson\u003c\/i\u003e Dictionary 209\u003cbr\u003e G.W.F. Hegel, “India” (1822) 219\u003cbr\u003e William Jones, “A Discourse on the Institution of a Society for Inquiring into the History, Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literatures of Asia” (1784) 223\u003cbr\u003e Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Minute on Indian Education” (1835) 227\u003cbr\u003e Max Muller, “The Aryan Section” (1876) 239\u003cbr\u003e VI. LAWS AND ORDERS \u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION: Ordering “Chaos”: Administering the Law 249\u003cbr\u003e Robert Orme, “Of the Laws and Justice of Indostan” (1782) 251\u003cbr\u003e Sir William Jones, Preface to “Institutes of Hindu Law: Or, the Ordinances of Menu” (1794) 261\u003cbr\u003e Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Introductory Report upon the Indian Penal Code” (1837) 268\u003cbr\u003e VII. THUGGEE\/THAGI \u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION: Decriminalizing the Landscape: Thugs and Poisoners 285\u003cbr\u003e A thug “family tree” (1836) [illustration] 288\u003cbr\u003e Thug depredations (1836) [map] 288\u003cbr\u003e Thugs giving a demonstration of their method of strangulation (1855) [photo] 289\u003cbr\u003e Captain William H. Sleeman, Excerpts from \u003ci\u003eThe Thugs or Phansigars of India: History of the Rise and Progress\u003c\/i\u003e (1839) 297\u003cbr\u003e Fanny Parks Parlby, “A Kutcherry or Kachahri” (1850) 307\u003cbr\u003e Philip Meadows Taylor, “Thugs” (1877) 314\u003cbr\u003e Philip Meadows Taylor, Excerpts from \u003ci\u003eConfessions of a Thug\u003c\/i\u003e (1837) 315\u003cbr\u003e Captain William H. Sleeman, “Thug Approvers” (1833-1835?) 322\u003cbr\u003e VIII. SUTTEE\/SATI \u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION: Sati\/Suttee: Observances, Abolition, Observations 337\u003cbr\u003e Colonel Henry Yule and A.C. Burnell, “Suttee” [definition] (1903) 340\u003cbr\u003e Lord William Bentinck, “Bentinck’s Minute on Sati, 8 November 1892” 350\u003cbr\u003e Sati Regulation XVII, A.D. 1829 of the Bengal Code, 4 December 1829 361\u003cbr\u003e “The Duties of a Faithful Widow,” from \u003ci\u003eDigest of Hindi Law\u003c\/i\u003e (n.d.) 364\u003cbr\u003e Raja Ram Mohan Roy, “Petitions and Addresses on the Practice of Suttee (1818-1831)” 369\u003cbr\u003e G.W.F. Hegel, On Sati (1822) 374\u003cbr\u003e Charles Dickens, Death by Fire of Miss Havisham (1861) 375\u003cbr\u003e Jules Verne, “Fogg Rescues a Sati” (1873) 377\u003cbr\u003e Maspero Jingle [advertisement for Maspero Egyptian cigarettes] 379\u003cbr\u003e Ernest Renan, On Suttee (1893) 380\u003cbr\u003e Flora Annie Steel, “The Reformer’s Wife” (1933) 381\u003cbr\u003e IX. THE INDIAN UPRISING\/SEPOY MUTINY 1857-1858 \u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION: The “Asiatic Mystery”: The Sepoy Mutiny, Rebellion, or Revolt 391\u003cbr\u003e Chronology of Events 396\u003cbr\u003e Rulers and Rebels: Some Major Figures 397\u003cbr\u003e Excerpts from \u003ci\u003eThe Who’s Who of Indian Martyrs\u003c\/i\u003e (1969-1973) 400\u003cbr\u003e “Portrait of Nana Sahib” [illustration] 402\u003cbr\u003e “Sepoys, 1757” (1890) [illustration] 406\u003cbr\u003e “Attack of the Mutineers on the Redan Battery at Lucknow, July 30, 1857” (n.d.) [illustration] 406\u003cbr\u003e “The Asiatic Mystery. 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