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G.J. Bryant. The Emergence of British Power in India, 1600-1784: A Grand Strategic Interpretation. Suffolk, UK: Boydell Press, 2013. 372 pp. ISBN: 9781843838548. $99.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2016

Robin Oakley*
Affiliation:
Dalhousie University

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© 2016 Research Institute for History, Leiden University 

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1 There is a section in the middle of the book that lacks page numbers between pp. 143-153.

2 It is shocking that Bryant would use the term “paranoid” given the constituent proof that he provides that the Company’s servants were untrustworthy and, for the majority of the time, trying to undermine the independent status of Muslim Nawabs and Hindu kings (whom he diminutively refers to as princes).