This volume offers a unique glimpse into a European household in 18th century India. Claude Martin was an entrepreneurial Frenchman who settled in Lucknow, capi

A provocative case that “failed states” along the periphery of today’s international system are the intended result of nineteenth-century colonial design.

Empire Building is a new account of the East India Company’s impact on India, focussing on how it changed the sub-continent’s built environment in the conte