• List of tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Traders into sovereigns: the East India Company, 1757–1765; 2. Perceptions of empire; 3. The policy-makers: Parliament and the East India Company; 4. Crown and Company (I): the Diwani and the inquiry of 1767; 5. Crown and Company (II): foreign relations, 1766–1769; 6. Attempts at reform (I): civil, military, and judicial affairs, 1767–1772; 7. Attempts at reform (II): trade and revenue, 1767–1772; 8. The East India Company crisis of 1772; 9. Response to crisis (I): high politics and the committees of inquiry, 1772–1773; 10. Response to crisis (II): trade, finance, and reform; 11. The final act? the passage of Lord North's East India legislation, 1773; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.

"This fine study of the Indian problem in Hanoverian politics represents something of a breakthrough....[Bowen] is able to synthesize many of the issues raised in the periodical pieces and move the debate forward. The result is very rewarding indeed and this whole approach to imperial problems is to be encouraged, for the very simple reason that it augments the traditional concerns of Empire scholarship so well." Philip Lawson, Albion

• List of tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Traders into sovereigns: the East India Company, 1757–1765; 2. Perceptions of empire; 3. The policy-makers: Parliament and the East India Company; 4. Crown and Company (I): the Diwani and the inquiry of 1767; 5. Crown and Company (II): foreign relations, 1766–1769; 6. Attempts at reform (I): civil, military, and judicial affairs, 1767–1772; 7. Attempts at reform (II): trade and revenue, 1767–1772; 8. The East India Company crisis of 1772; 9. Response to crisis (I): high politics and the committees of inquiry, 1772–1773; 10. Response to crisis (II): trade, finance, and reform; 11. The final act? the passage of Lord North's East India legislation, 1773; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.

"This fine study of the Indian problem in Hanoverian politics represents something of a breakthrough....[Bowen] is able to synthesize many of the issues raised in the periodical pieces and move the debate forward. The result is very rewarding indeed and this whole approach to imperial problems is to be encouraged, for the very simple reason that it augments the traditional concerns of Empire scholarship so well." Philip Lawson, Albion

• List of tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Traders into sovereigns: the East India Company, 1757–1765; 2. Perceptions of empire; 3. The policy-makers: Parliament and the East India Company; 4. Crown and Company (I): the Diwani and the inquiry of 1767; 5. Crown and Company (II): foreign relations, 1766–1769; 6. Attempts at reform (I): civil, military, and judicial affairs, 1767–1772; 7. Attempts at reform (II): trade and revenue, 1767–1772; 8. The East India Company crisis of 1772; 9. Response to crisis (I): high politics and the committees of inquiry, 1772–1773; 10. Response to crisis (II): trade, finance, and reform; 11. The final act? the passage of Lord North's East India legislation, 1773; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.

"This fine study of the Indian problem in Hanoverian politics represents something of a breakthrough....[Bowen] is able to synthesize many of the issues raised in the periodical pieces and move the debate forward. The result is very rewarding indeed and this whole approach to imperial problems is to be encouraged, for the very simple reason that it augments the traditional concerns of Empire scholarship so well." Philip Lawson, Albion