Empire Building is a new account of the East India Company's impact on India, focusing on how it changed the sub-continent's built environment in the context of defense, urbanization, and infrastructural development. Rosie Llewellyn-Jones examines these initiatives through a lens of 'political building' (using Indian contractors and laborers). Railways, docks, municipal buildings, freemasons' lodges, hotels, race-courses, barracks, cemeteries,...