CONTENTS: Preface 1. Early British View of Indian Civilization 2. Early Advocates of the Need to Retain ‘Native’ Institutions 3. The Orientalists 4. Disastrous Early Administrative Ventures of the Company 5. British Crafted ‘Indigenous’ Texts 6. Headlong on a Perilous Path 7. Judicial System – Pre-1772 8. Company Judicial System Takes Shape 9. The Cornwallis System 10. Critics of the Cornwallis System 11. Support for Indigenous Judicial Institutions Continues 12. Advocacy of Indian Employment and the Reality 13. Indigenous Institutions of Justice – Panchayats 14. Darogah – An Instrument of British Control 15. The Police System 16. Ground Reports on the Working of British Introduced Judicial System 17. Confusion Worse Confounded 18. Growing Inroads of Missionaries 19. Rule of Strangers Appendix: The Trial of Nand Kumar References Index