Table of Contents

1: Douglas M. Peers and Nandini Gooptu: Introduction
2: Douglas M. Peers: State, Power, and Colonialism
3: David Washbrook: The Indian Economy and the British Empire
4: Norbert Peabody: Knowledge Formation in Colonial India
5: Rosalind O'Hanlon: Colonialism and Social Identities in Flux: Class, Caste, and Religious Community
6: Sumit Sarkar: Nationalisms in India
7: Sandra Den Otter: Law, Authority, and Colonial Rule
8: Mark Harrison: Networks of Knowledge: Science and Medicine in Early Colonial India
9: Mahesh Rangarajan: Environment and Ecology under British Rule
10: Christopher Pinney: Material and Visual Culture of British India
11: Javed Majeed: Literary Modernity in South Asia
12: Tanika Sarkar: Gendering of Public and Private Selves in Colonial Times
13: Vijay Prashad: The Desi Diaspora: Politics, Protest, and Nationalism
14: Nandini Gooptu: The Political Legacy of Colonialism in South Asia

About the Author

Douglas Peers is currently Professor of History and Dean of Arts at the University of Waterloo, having previously held positions at York University, the University of Calgary, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He is the author of Between Mars and Mammon: Colonial Armies and the Garrison State in Early-Nineteenth Century India (1995), India Under Colonial Rule, 1700-1885 (2006), and published more than twenty
articles and chapters on the intellectual, political, medical, and cultural dimensions of nineteenth-century India in such journals as the Social History of Medicine, Modern Asian Studies, The Historical Journal, Journal of
Imperial and Commonwealth History, International History Review, Radical History Review and Journal of World History.
Nandini Gooptu is a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. She teaches history and politics at the Department of International Development, the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, and the Department of Politics, University of Oxford. Educated in Calcutta and at Cambridge, and trained as a social historian, she is the author of The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early-Twentieth Century India (2001). While Dr Gooptu's past research has been on colonial India, her current research is
concerned with social and political transformation in contemporary India. She has published articles on a variety of subjects, including caste, religion and spiritualism in politics; urban development and
politics; poverty, labour, and work.

Reviews

The fact that many of the contributors to this book are highly regarded, well-established scholars of Britain's occupation of India immediately guarantees the book's importance for other scholars in the field. It does not fail to deliver, because many of the essays provide original arguments thoroughly taking account of the strengths and weaknesses of the past thirty years of historical scholarship ... India and the British Empire therefore makes a valuable contribution to the field of its title by presenting up-to-date assessments of the wide variety of scholarly approaches used to understand the impact of India's period of British occupation on both the occupied and the occupier
*A. Martin Wainwright, Journal of British Studies*

... this compilation provides a good introduction to the areas covered, as well as offering an interesting and challenging interpretation of the areas that should interest scholars already working in the field ... Overall, this is an interesting and valuable contribution to the field of Empire and Indian history
*Lindsay Henderson, Australian Journal of Politics and History*