Prabhakar Singh (BML Munjal University) will be presenting on the topic of England-India Treaty Relations During the 19th Century in International Law.

The Raj Darbhanga, India’s largest Estate since the Permanent Settlement of 1793, had assisted the British in the Anglo-Nepal War of 1812 which ended with the 1815 Peace Treaty of Sugauli. In  Sahee v. Sahee involving another estate in Bihar, the Privy Council noted that Estate tenures could be given without Rajaships titles. This paper maps Raj Darbhanga’s imperial liminality and its participation in the patterning of the British colonial corridors in the southern foothills of the Himalayas. To the “old” discourse on European empire-making in oceanic and borderland zones, I add the vertical ariel dimension led by “new” American entrepreneurialism of which the presence of Darbhanga estate, as  co-host in 1933 of the first ever Mount Everest air expedition involving the kingdom of Nepal, on new American imperial itinerary is an example.

Dr. Prabhakar Singh is Professor at BML Munjal University School of Law, India. He is currently a member of the Executive Council of the Asian Society of International Law and sits on the international advisory panel of the American Law Institute's program on Foreign Relations Law. He read his Ph.D. at the National University of Singapore, LL.M. at the University of Barcelona, and B.A.LL.B. (Hons) at the National Law Institute University, Bhopal.

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