| Acknowledgments | p. xix |
| General Introduction: Readings in Imperialism and Orientalism | p. xxi |
| Volume Introduction: From the Company to the Canal | p. 1 |
| Company to Canal, 1757-1869 | |
| Introduction: Adventure Capitalism: Mercantilism, Militarism, and the British East India Company | p. 13 |
| Chronology of Events | p. 16 |
| List of the Governors and Governors-General of India | p. 17 |
| List of the Newabs of Bengal | p. 18 |
| India under Cornwallis (1792) [map] | p. 19 |
| India under Wellesley (1799) [map] | p. 19 |
| India under Hastings (1832) [map] | p. 20 |
| India under Dalhousie (1856) [map] | p. 20 |
| Excerpt from With Clive in India (n.d.) | p. 21 |
| "Agreement between the Nabob Nudjum-ul-Dowlah and the Company, 12 August 1765" | p. 25 |
| An Inquiry into the Rights of the East India Company of Making War and Peace (1772) | p. 27 |
| East India Company Act, 1773 | p. 31 |
| "The Constitution of the East India Company" (1817) | p. 39 |
| Letter to Durmont (1819) | p. 47 |
| Excerpt from Autobiography (1873) | p. 48 |
| Government of India Act, 1833 | p. 49 |
| "A Speech, Delivered in the House of Commons on the 10th of July, 1833" | p. 54 |
| "Lord Clive" (1840) | p. 59 |
| "The Spoliation of Oude" (1857) | p. 72 |
| "Memorandum on Marquess Wellesley's Government of India" (1806) | p. 81 |
| Oriental Despotism | |
| Introduction: Oriental Despotisms and Political Economies | p. 89 |
| "Distinctive Properties of a Despotic Government" (1746) | p. 92 |
| Excerpts from Persian Letters (1721) | p. 92 |
| "America and the East Indies" (1776) | p. 95 |
| "Of the Government and People of Indostan" (1782) | p. 107 |
| Excerpt from The Principles of Political Economy (1848) | p. 111 |
| Excerpt from "Considerations on Representative Government" (1861) | p. 113 |
| "On Imperialism in India" (1853) | p. 117 |
| The Impeachment of Warren Hastings | |
| Introduction: Warren Hastings: Naughty Nabob or National Hero? | p. 131 |
| "Warren Hastings to the Court of General Directors, 11 November 1773" | p. 135 |
| Excerpt from Memoirs Relative to the State of India (1786) | p. 137 |
| "Edmund Burke on the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, 15-19 February 1788" | p. 143 |
| Westminster Hall during the trial of Warren Hastings (1788) [illustration] | p. 156 |
| Diary Selections (1788) | p. 155 |
| "From the Third Day of Edmund Burke's Speech Opening the Impeachment, 18 February 1788" | p. 160 |
| "From the Address of Warren Hastings in His Defence, 2 June 1791" | p. 163 |
| "Warren Hastings" (1841) | p. 166 |
| The Case of Tipu Sultan | |
| Introduction: Tipu Sultan: Oriental Despot or National Hero? | p. 171 |
| Excerpts from The Tiger of Mysore (189?) | p. 173 |
| "Tippoo Sahib at the Lines of Travancore" (1789) [illustration] | p. 174 |
| "Treaties of Peace, and Review of the Consequences of the War" (1793) | p. 175 |
| Selected Letters between Tipu and Company Governors-General, 1798-1799 | p. 180 |
| "Prologue: The Storming of Seringapatam, 1799" (1869) | p. 195 |
| Orientalism | |
| Introduction: Orientalism: The East as a Career | p. 203 |
| Excerpts from Frankenstein (1813/1831) | p. 206 |
| Excerpt from Sibyl, or the Two Nations (1845) | p. 208 |
| Definitions from the Hobson-Jobson Dictionary | p. 209 |
| "India" (1822) | p. 219 |
| "A Discourse on the Institution of a Society for Inquiring into the History, Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literatures of Asia" (1784) | p. 223 |
| "Minute on Indian Education" (1835) | p. 227 |
| "The Aryan Section" (1876) | p. 239 |
| Laws and Orders | |
| Introduction: Ordering "Chaos": Administering the Law | p. 249 |
| "Of the Laws and Justice of Indostan" (1782) | p. 251 |
| Preface to "Institutes of Hindu Law: Or, the Ordinances of Menu" (1794) | p. 261 |
| "Introductory Report upon the Indian Penal Code" (1837) | p. 268 |
| Thuggee/Thagi | |
| Introduction: Decriminalizing the Landscape: Thugs and Poisoners | p. 285 |
| A thug "family tree" (1836) [illustration] | p. 288 |
| Thug depradations (1836) [map] | p. 288 |
| Thugs giving a demonstration of their method of strangulation (1855) [photo] | p. 289 |
| "The Ramaseeana, or Vocabulary of the Thug Language" (1839) | p. 287 |
| Excerpts from The Thugs or Phansigars of India: History of the Rise and Progress (1839) | p. 297 |
| "A Kutcherry or Kachahri" (1850) | p. 307 |
| "Thugs" (1877) | p. 314 |
| Excerpts from Confessions of a Thug (1837) | p. 315 |
| "Thug Approvers" (1833-1835?) | p. 322 |
| Suttee/Sati | |
| Introduction: Sati/Suttee: Observances, Abolition, Observations | p. 337 |
| "Suttee" [definition] (1903) | p. 340 |
| "Bentinck's Minute on Sati, 8 November 1892" | p. 350 |
| Sati Regulation XVII, A. D. 1829 of the Bengal Code, 4 December 1829 | p. 361 |
| "The Duties of a Faithful Widow," from Digest of Hindi Law (n.d.) | p. 364 |
| "Petitions and Addresses on the Practice of Suttee (1818-1831)" | p. 369 |
| On Sati (1822) | p. 374 |
| Death by Fire of Miss Havisham (1861) | p. 375 |
| "Fogg Rescues a Sati" (1873) | p. 377 |
| Maspero Jingle [advertisement for Maspero Egyptian cigarettes] | p. 379 |
| On Suttee (1893) | p. 380 |
| "The Reformer's Wife" (1933) | p. 381 |
| The Indian Uprising/Sepoy Mutiny 1857-1858 | |
| Introduction: The "Asiatic Mystery": The Sepoy Mutiny, Rebellion, or Revolt | p. 391 |
| Chronology of Events | p. 396 |
| Rulers and Rebels: Some Major Figures | p. 397 |
| Excerpts from The Who's Who of Indian Martyrs (1969-1973) | p. 400 |
| "Portrait of Nana Sahib" [illustration] | p. 402 |
| "Sepoys, 1757" (1890) [illustration] | p. 406 |
| "Attack of the Mutineers on the Redan Battery at Lucknow, July 30, 1857" (n. d.) [illustration] | p. 406 |
| "The Asiatic Mystery. As Prepared by Sepoy D'Israeli" (1857) [illustration] | p. 407 |
| "Proclamation to the People of Oude on Its Annexation. February 1856" | p. 404 |
| "Sir Henry Lawrence's Essay of 1843, Forecasting the Events of 1857" | p. 409 |
| Rani Lakshmi Bai (The Rani of Jhansi), "Letters of Rani Lakshmi Bai" (1853-1854) | p. 413 |
| Title page from The Queen's Desire (1893) [reproduction] | p. 420 |
| Preface and Excerpt from The Queen's Desire: A Romance of the Indian Mutiny (1893) | p. 419 |
| "The Ranee's Death" (1893) [illustration] | p. 422 |
| The King of Oude's Manifesto from the Delhi Gazette, 29 September 1857 | p. 428 |
| "The Revolt in India," "The Indian Question," "British Incomes in India," and "The Annexation of Oude" (1857-1858) | p. 433 |
| "Final Orders to the Musketry Schools" (1857) | p. 449 |
| Selected Documents from John William Kaye's The History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857-1858 (1880), including "The Chupatties" and "The Bone-Dust Story" | p. 451 |
| Act. No. XIV of 1857 (on the punishment of soldiers under Company rule) (1880) | p. 459 |
| "Summary Justice" (n.d.) | p. 461 |
| "Justice" (1857) [illustration] | p. 479 |
| Selected Correspondence of Queen Victoria (1857) | p. 478 |
| "How to Make an Indian Pickle" (1857) | p. 485 |
| "The British Lion's Vengeance on the Bengal Tiger" (1857) [illustration] | p. 487 |
| Bholanauth-Chunder (attributed to), "The Punishment of Allahabad" (1857) | p. 486 |
| "Pity for the Poor Sepoys!" (1857) [editorial letter] | p. 488 |
| Excerpts from A Memorial of the Futtehgurh Mission and Her Martyred Missionaries: With Some Remarks on the Mutiny in India (1859) | p. 489 |
| "The Execution of 'John Company'" (1857) [illustration] | p. 510 |
| "England's Great Mission to India" (1879) | p. 509 |
| "Doubts and Forebodings" (n.d.) | p. 529 |
| "What the Native Thought" (n.d.) | p. 535 |
| "The Grave of the Hundred Head" (1899) | p. 539 |
| "The Defence of Lucknow" (1879) | p. 542 |
| "English War-Song" (n.d.) | p. 546 |
| "The Indian Mutiny" (1908) | p. 547 |
| The Suez Canal: The Gala Opening | |
| Introduction: Spectacular Suez: The Opening Gala of the Suez Canal | p. 555 |
| "Opening of the Suez Canal at Port Said: Presence of the Imperial and Royal Visitors" (1869) [illustration] | p. 558 |
| "Opening of the Suez Canal: The Procession of Ships in the Canal" (1869) [illustration] | p. 558 |
| Selected Correspondence of Giuseppe Verdi (1870) | p. 557 |
| Excerpt from An Englishman's Recollections of Egypt 1863 to 1887 (1915) | p. 566 |
| The Suez Canal: The Builder, Ferdinand De Lesseps | |
| Introduction: "The Master Builder" and His Designs: Ferdinand De Lesseps | p. 575 |
| "Ferdinand De Lesseps Bestrides His Canal" (n.d.) [illustration] | p. 578 |
| Chronology of Events | p. 579 |
| "Inquiry into the Opinions of the Commercial Classes of Great Britain on the Suez Ship Canal" (1857) [pamphlet] | p. 580 |
| Excerpts from The Suez Canal: Letters and Documents Descriptive of Its Rise and Progress in 1854-56 (1876) | p. 584 |
| Excerpt from From Pharaoh to Fellah (1888) | p. 604 |
| The Suez Canal: The Canal and Its Consequences | |
| Introduction: The Battlefield of the Future: The Canal and Its Consequences | p. 611 |
| "A Stretch of the Canal Is Hollowed Out/The Men Who Have Hollowed It" (n.d.) [illustration] | p. 614 |
| "From the Great Pyramid. (A Bird's-Eye View of the Canal and Its Consequences.)" (1869) [illustration] | p. 617 |
| "Latest--From the Sphinx" (1869) [editorial poem] | p. 615 |
| "The Sultan's Complaint" (1869) [editorial poem] | p. 617 |
| "Report to His Highness the Viceroy of Egypt on the Fellah Workmen to be Employed by the International Suez Canal Company" (1856) | p. 619 |
| "The Official Firman of Concession Granted by the Viceroy of Egypt Mohamed Said, to Ferdinand De Lesseps, 1854" | p. 622 |
| "Charter of Concession and Book of Charges for the Construction and Working of the Suez Grand Maritime Canal and Dependencies" (1856) | p. 625 |
| "Agreement of February 22, 1866, Determining the Final Terms as Ratified by the Sublime Porte" | p. 631 |
| "Why Not Purchase the Suez Canal?" (1883) | p. 638 |
| "De Lesseps and the Canal" (1900) | p. 655 |
| "The Suez Canal" (1898) | p. 661 |
| "Mose in Egitto!!!" (1875) [illustration] | p. 670 |
| "A Day on the Suez Canal (1905)" (1921) | p. 671 |
| "The Lion's Share" (1876) [illustration] | p. 677 |
| The Arabi Uprising | |
| Introduction: The Arabi Uprising: "Egypt for the Egyptians" or British Egypt | p. 681 |
| Chronology of Events | p. 685 |
| Important Figures | p. 685 |
| "Hold On!" (1882) [illustration] | p. 688 |
| "The Neddy of the Nile" (1882) [illustration] | p. 688 |
| "De War in Egypt" (1882) | p. 686 |
| "Aggression on Egypt and Freedom in the East" (1887) | p. 687 |
| "The Mutiny of the Egyptian Army" (1908) | p. 696 |
| Arabi's Appeal to Gladstone (1882) | p. 707 |
| "Rioters at Alexandria" (1882) [illustration] | p. 709 |
| "The Crisis in Egypt" (1882) [illustration] | p. 710 |
| "The Bombardment of Alexandria (1882)" (with map) | p. 711 |
| Wilfred Scawen Blunt, "The Arabi Trial" (1907) | p. 714 |
| "The Sublime--'Super!'" (1882) [illustration] | p. 737 |
| Arabi and His Household (1882) [pamphlet] | p. 736 |
| Pilgrims, Travelers, and Tourists | |
| Introduction: Holy Lands and Secular Agendas | p. 747 |
| "Cairo Is the Real Arabian Nights" (1865) | p. 749 |
| "Suez" (1855) | p. 752 |
| "The Two Cities" (1902) | p. 769 |
| Excerpt from Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888) | p. 775 |
| Itineraries from Programme of Arrangements for Visiting Egypt, the Nile, Sudan, Palestine, and Syria (1929-1930) | p. 779 |
| "Egyptian Native Types" (n.d.) [illustration] | p. 780 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
