Shows how colonial indirect rule and land tenure institutions create state weakness, ethnic inequality and insurgency in India, and around the world.

What explains the peculiar spatial variation of Maoist insurgency in India? Mukherjee develops a novel typology of colonial indirect rule and land tenure in Ind

In this comparative-historical analysis of Spanish America, Mahoney offers a new theory of colonialism and postcolonial development. He explores why certain kin

The Indian Army was one of the most important colonial institutions that the British created. From its humble origins as a mercantile police force to a modern c

Fresh analysis revises many previous theories on origins & significance of the nullification controversy.