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100			_aMarshall, P. J.
245			_aNew cambridge history of India : _bBengal: the British bridgehead eastern India 1740-1828 / _cP. J. Marshall
260			_aNew York _bCambridge University Press _c1987
300			_a195 p.
365			_aINR _b695.00
500			_aThe aim of Bengal: The British Bridgehead is to explain how, in the eighteenth century, Britain established her rule in eastern India, the first part of the subcontinent to be incorporated into the British Empire. Though the British were not in firm control of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa until 1765, to illustrate the circumstances in which they gained power and elucidate the Indian inheritance that so powerfully shaped the early years of their rule, professor Marshall begins his analysis around 1740 with the reign of Alivardi Khan, the last effective Mughal ruler of eastern India. He then explores the social, cultural and economic changes that followed the imposition of foreign rule and seeks to assess the consequences for the peoples of the region; emphasis is given throughout as much to continuities rooted deep in the history of Bengal as to the more obvious effects of British domination. The volume closes in the 1820s when, with British rule firmly established, a new pattern of cultural and economic relations was developing between Britain and eastern India.
650			_aIndia
650			_aIndia -- History.
650			_aPolitics -- history.
650			_aCivilization -- history.