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List of Map and Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Comparing Eighteenth-Century Polities
Crisis, Anxiety and the Making of a New Order
Colonial Indecision and the Origins of the Hindu Joint Family
Governing the Power of Proprietors
The State as Machine and the Ambivalent Origins of Colonial Utilitarianism
Indian Liberalism and Colonial Utilitarianism
Reflections
Notes