History of British India : under the company and the crown / by P. E. Roberts and completed by T. G. P. Spear

Includes index.

PART I: Physical and geographical features -- Sketch of political history to the appearance of the British in India -- European commerce with India -- The birth of the London East India Company -- The English, Dutch and Portuguese in the East -- Early settlements in India, the company under the Stuarts, the Commonwealth, the Protectorate, the Restoration -- The new East India Company -- Growth of the settlements, 1708-1746, the Octend company -- The life of the English in the East -- The English and French in India, to the peace of Aix-La-Chapelle -- The English and French on the Coromandel coast to the recall of duplex -- English and French in India to the peace of Paris, reasons for the French defeat -- The revolution in Bengal, Plassey and Clive's first Governorship of Bengal -- Misgovernment in Bengal, reforms and Clive's second Governorship -- The administration of Warren Hastings to the end of the Rohilla War -- Warren Hastings, the Regulating Act and the trial of Nandkumar -- Warren Hastings, wars in Western and Southern India -- Chait Singh and the begams of Oudh, the impeachment of Warren Hastings -- Internal reforms the great land settlement, Lord Cornwallis and Sir John Shore -- Expansion, Lord Wellesley, subsidiary alliances and annexations -- Reaction from the policy of annexation, Lord Cornwallis, Sir George Barlow, Lord Minto -- Final defeat of the Maratha confideracy, Lord Hastings -- The first Burmese war, Lord Amherst -- Lord William Bentinck and internal reforms -- The first Afghan war, Lord Auckland and Lord Ellenborough -- The annexation of Sind under Lord Ellenborough -- The first and second Sikh Wars and the conquest of the Punjab, Lord Hardinge and Lord Dalhousie -- The Second Burmese war, Lord Dalhousie, the doctrine of lapse -- The causes of the mutiny, Lord Canning -- The mutiny -- The end of the East India Company -- PART II: India under the Crown, settlement and pacification, the end of Lord Canning's administration -- Lord Elgin and Lord Lawrence, our relations with Afghanistan -- Lord Mayo, relations with Sher Ali financial reform -- Lord Northbrook, Afghan affairs -- Lord Lytton's policy in Afghanistan to the beginning of the war -- The second Afghan war -- Internal administration under Lord Lytton -- Lord Ripon and the era of constitutional reform -- Lord Dufferin, England, Russia and Afghanistan, the conquest of upper Burma -- The administration of Lord Lansdowne, the Forward policy -- Measures of social and administrative reform 1885-92, the Indian National Congress -- Famine, plague and frontier wars, Lord Elgin's administration -- The foreign policy of Lord Curzon in the Northwest Afghanistan and Persia -- The expedition to Tibet, 1904 -- Internal administration under Lord Curzon -- The Morley-Minto reforms, the Anglo Russian convention -- The Coronation Durbar, the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms -- Dyarchy and non-co-operation -- The Simon Commission and the round table conferences -- External relations 1919-39 -- The 1935 Act and after -- India and the war, 1939-45 -- Independence and partition -- Economic and cultural development