Prefatory Note Introduction Acknowledgements 1. Imperial Business Charter Granted by Queen Elizabeth, to the Governor and Company of Merchants of London, Trading Into the East Indies, Dated the 31st December, in the 43rd Year of Her Reign, Anno Domini, 1600 . 2. Imperial Prospecting Robert Boyle, 'Inquiries for Suratte and Other Parts of the East-Indies', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 2. 23 (1666-1667): 415-419. 3. Imperial Vulnerability J.Z.

Holwell, A Genuine Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English Gentlemen, and Others, Who Were Suffocated in the Black-Hole in Fort William, in Calcutta, in the Kingdom of Bengal; in the Night Succeeding the 20th Day of June, 1756 , 1758. 4. Imperial Cartography James Rennell, Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan , 1788. 5. Imperial Eyewitnessing Joseph Wilson, 'The Custom of Women Burning Themselves With Their Husbands', 1788. 6. Imperial Literary William Jones, Sacontalá or The Fatal Ring , 1789. 7.

Imperial Education T.B. Macaulay, 'Minute [on Indian Education]', 2 February 1835. 8. Imperial Control W.H. Sleeman, Thugs or, Phansigars of India , 1839. 9.

Imperial Domesticity Flora Annie Steel and Grace Gardiner, The Complete Indian Housekeeper & Cook , 1888. 10. Imperial Ethnography Herbert Risley, The People of India , 1908. Bibliography About the Author.