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  • 3 - The crisis of the Indian state, 1780–1820

  • C. A. Bayly, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    31 March 1988, pp 79-105

  • Summary

    This chapter examines the working out of the processes of expansion both of the British and of the last independent Indian states. It commences with an overview of the new pressures on the Company's Indian establishments, which finally forged a European military despotism out of the loose congeries of independent mercantile corporations and Creole armies which it had been in Hasting's time. The political theory and practice of the Wellesley circle represented the first coherent imperial policy in British Indian history. The Company's rule in India had come to rest primarily on its military despotism. The subsidiary alliance system posed great problems both for the Indian states and for the British.