Contents

Foreword iii

1. How, When and Where 1

2. From Trade to Territory 9
The Company Establishes Power

3. Ruling the Countryside 26

4. Tribals, Dikus and the Vision 39
of a Golden Age
5. When People Rebel 51
1857 and After

6. Colonialism and the City 64

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