The Scandal of Empire : : India and the Creation of Imperial Britain / / Nicholas B Dirks.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Dirks, Nicholas B,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; Prologue --; 1. Scandal --; 2. Corruption --; 3. Spectacle --; 4. Economy --; 5. Sovereignty --; 6. State --; 7. History --; 8. Tradition --; 9. Empire --; Notes. Illustration Credits. Index --; Notes --; Illustration Credits --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674034266; 9783110649772; 9783110442205; 9783110459517; 9783110662566
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674034266
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Nicholas B Dirks.

The Scandal of Empire reveals that the conquests and exploitations of the East India Company were critical to England's development in the eighteenth century and beyond. In this powerfully written critique, Nicholas Dirks shows how the empire projected its own scandalous behavior onto India itself. By returning to the moment when the scandal of empire became acceptable, we gain a new understanding of the modern culture of the colonizer and the colonized and the manifold implications for Britain, India, and the world.