Friends and family following the progress of the book have helped greatly. I am grateful to colleagues at SOAS University of London and the Institut Catholique de Paris for their interest and ideas, along with staff in the SOAS Library and the British Library for their help and guidance. I would like to thank Michael Dwyer and his colleagues at Hurst for backing the project, the anonymous reviewers of the original manuscript for their efforts, and Rukun Advani at Permanent Black for his editing of the final draft. The writing of this book, like most, has relied on the support and input of others. CONTENTSĪcknowledgements vii Introduction: The Hooghly in Global History 1. Hooghly: The Rise and Fall of the Portuguese 2. Murshidabad: The Kingdom of the Nawabs of Bengal 3. Plassey: The English East India Company’s Ascent 4. |handernagore: The French Revolution in Bengal 5. Serampore: Baptist Missionaries and the Power of Print 6. |alcutta: The Unfinished Conquest of Nature 7. Sagar Island: The Hooghly’s Global Future ISBN: 9781787383258 This book is printed using paper from registered sustainable and managed sources. A Cataloguing-in-Publication data record for this book is available from the British Library. Distributed in the United States, Canada and Latin America by Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. Ivermee to be identified as the author of this publication is asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.
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