The Black Hole of Empire by Chatterjee, Partha -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half title Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of Illustrations Preface Chapter One Outrage in Calcutta

The Travels of a Monument Old Fort William A New Nawab The Fall of Calcutta The Aftermath of Defeat The “Genuine” Narrative Reconquest and More Whose Revolution?

Chapter Two A Secret Veil

The Conquest in History The Age of Plunder Early Histories of Conquest The Modern State and Modern Empires The Nabobs Come Home The Critique of Conquest

Chapter Three Tipu’s Tiger

A Bengali in Britain Contemporary Indian Histories The Early Modern in South Asia The Early Modern as a Category of Transition Nīti versus Dharma An Early Modern History of Bengal Tipu as an Early Modern Absolute Monarch The Tiger of Mysore The Mysore Family in Calcutta

Chapter Four Liberty of the Subject

The New Fort William The Early Press in Calcutta The Strength of Constitution The Making of Early Modern Citizens Other Early Modern Institutions

Chapter Five Equality of Subjects

The Falsehood of All Religions The Colonization of Barbarous Countries Citizens of Character and Capital The Unsung End of Early Modernity

Chapter Six For the Happiness of Mankind

The Founding of a Myth The Utility of Empire The Morality of Empire The Myth Refurbished

Chapter Seven The Pedagogy of Violence

The Law of Nations in the East Dalhousie and Paramountcy Awadh under British Protection The Road to Annexation Awadh Annexed Imperialism: Liberal and Antiliberal A Chimerical Lucknow

Chapter Eight The Pedagogy of Culture

The Contradictions of Colonial Modernity The City and the Public The New Bengali Theater Shedding a Tear for Siraj On the Poetic and Historical Imaginations Siraj and the National-Popular The Dramatic Form of the National-Popular Surveillance and Proscription

Chapter Nine Bombs, Sovereignty, and Football

The New Memorial The Scramble for Empire The Normalization of the Nation-State Violence and the Motherland Early Actions Strategies and Tactics Igniting the Imagination Football as a Manly Sport Football and Nationalism Official Responses The Later Phase

Chapter Ten The Death and Everlasting Life of Empire

A Gigantic Hoax We Are Kings of the Country, and the Rest Are Slaves Siraj, Once More on Stage Endgames of Empire Empire Today Afterword

Notes References Index