"Law Between Empires: Mughal Law and the Reconstitution of the British Empire in the Late Eighteenth Century"

Robert Travers, Cornell University

This seminar will be offered in a hybrid format with attendees both in-person and online via Zoom. Registration is only required for those who attend virtually.

Robert Travers is Professor of History at Cornell University, and currently a Willis F. Doney Member at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He is the author of two books about colonial state formation in eastern India in the late eighteenth century, Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth Century India: The British in Bengal (Cambridge, 2007), and Empires of Complaints. Mughal Law and the Making of British India, 1765-1793 (Cambridge, 2023). He is currently working on a new history of the parliamentary impeachment trial of the British Governor of Bengal, Warren Hastings.