The British presence expands
(Did the westerners bring "modernity"?)


*images of Company rule*
*the turbulent 1700's*
*maps of the period*

 

  
 
 
 
REQUIRED WORK:

== Stein, pp. 201-211

== Hay, vol. 2, pp. 1-35: "The Opening of India to the West"

== Clive reports to the East India Company on the Battle of Plassey, July 1757: *online at CU*

== Tipu Sultan (d.1799) is now a figure of controversy: "An Icon Besmirched," Outlook India, May 24, 1999: *online at CU*
 

  
 
     
 
 
 
FURTHER RESOURCES:

== A wonderful website about Tipu Sultan: *The Tiger and the Thistle*

== More material linked to our text: *Sources of Indian Tradition*
 

  
     
 

 
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