Contents

Foreword

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1. How, When and Where

2. From Trade to Territory

The Company Establishes Power

3. Ruling the Countryside

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4. Tribals, Dikus and the Vision

of a Golden Age

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5. When People Rebel

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1857 and After

6. Colonialism and the City

The Story of an Imperial Capital

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