Empires of complaints : Mughal law and the making of British India, 1765-1793 /Robert Travers.

"This book shows how British empire-builders in eighteenth century India co-opted and transformed Mughal practices of doing justice to petitioning subjects. Drawing on English and Persian sources, it explores the judicial mechanisms behind colonial state-building, revealing how the British attempted to ground their empire on a reconstituted version of Mughal law"--