P. J. Marshall
Between 1965 and 1978, he served as a Member of the Editorial Committee for The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, and between 1975 and 1981 he was Editor of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.He is an Emeritus Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London, where he continues to lecture.Marshall presents a revisionist interpretation, rejecting the view that the prosperity of Mughal Bengal gave way to poverty and anarchy in the colonial period.After 1765, British control was delegated largely through regional rulers and was sustained by a generally prosperous economy for the rest of the 18th century.Marshall also notes that the British raised revenue through local tax administrators and kept the old Mughal rates of taxation.