The United Provinces: How the British Administered the Heartland
District officers, canals and railways, the census that hardened caste, opium and army recruitment: the Raj's machine at maximum scale, both columns kept.
Read MoreThe Taluqdars of Awadh: How the British Bought the Landed Elite
Confiscation reversed into sanads: how the Crown restored Awadh's magnates, built an aristocracy of loyalty, and billed the cost to the tenantry for a century.
Read MoreThe Annexation of Awadh: Dalhousie’s Move That Lit the Fuse
February 7, 1856: the misgovernment pretext, the Sleeman report, the dispossessed taluqdars, and the sepoys whose homeland the Company confiscated.
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