Sir Robert Chambers : law, literature and empire in the age of Johnson / Thomas M. Curley.

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Madison (Wis.) : University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.

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22604

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Chambers, Robert, -- Sir -- 1737-1803.

Legal biography.

Judges -- India -- Biography.

Law -- India -- History.

Contents:

1. Newcastle youth and Oxford apprenticeship

2. Johnson and Chamber's Vinerial Professorship

3. The Secret collaboration

4. Leave-taking from Johnson's London

5. Passage to India

6. The Judicial murder of Maharajah Nuncomar

7. Constitutional reform and Calcutta politics

8. Crisis and curtailment for the Supreme Court

9. Tragedy and triumph on distant shores

10. In memory of Johnson and India

11. Empire and Asiatick studies

12. The Rise of Anglo-Indian law for modern India

13. Chief Justice at last

14. Homecoming to England.

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Includes bibliography and index.

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0299151506

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xxii, 698 p.