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Modernity's corruption : empire and morality in the making of British India /

"Modernity's Corruption is rooted in a case study of the British East India Company's rise to territorial power in South Asia between the middle of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It develops a novel explanation for the transition between two concepts of corruption. The first...

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Main Author: Wilson, Nicholas Hoover (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
East India Company > History.
East India Company > Corrupt practices.
East India Company > Officials and employees.
East India Company.
Great Britain > Moral conditions > Case studies.
Great Britain > Colonies > Administration.
Public administration > Corrupt practices > India.
Corruption > History > 18th century.
Corruption > History > 19th century.
HISTORY / Asia / General.
British colonies.
Colonies > Administration.
Corruption.
Employees.
India.
1700-1899
History.

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