ABSTRACT
This chapter probes the forms and functions of violence in early English East India Company governance and the specific ways such violence produced state geographies. Within this framework of violence and territory, the chapter follows the traffic between an autonomous kingdom at the eastern frontiers of Company holdings in Bengal (uplands or ‘independent Tippera’) and its neighbouring lowland, the British district of Tippera, formed in the late eighteenth century. The apportionment of the proper name Tippera between a British district and a princely state was made possible through a particular combination of violence and settlement. It produced the landscape of Tippera and outlined its relationship to and location within the Bengal agrarian complex.
