A study of political possibilities in the era of modern imperialism, from the perspective of the sovereign state of Hyderabad.

Benjamin Cohen tells the dramatic story of Mehdi Hasan and Ellen Donnelly, whose marriage convulsed high society in nineteenth-century India and whose notorious

"This book makes a case for the unprecedented violence in India's immediate postcolonization and argues that it played a crucial role in institutional and const

The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It incl