Author: Robert Montgomery MartinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
History of the Possessions of the Honourable East India Company
Author: Robert Montgomery MartinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
History of the Possessions of the Honorable East India Company
Author: Robert Montgomery MartinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857
Author: Margot FinnPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787350274
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule. From the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1857, objects, people and wealth flowed to Britain from Asia. As men in Company service increasingly shifted their activities from trade to military expansion and political administration, a new population of civil servants, army officers, surveyors and surgeons journeyed to India to make their fortunes. These Company men and their families acquired wealth, tastes and identities in India, which travelled home with them to Britain. Their stories, the biographies of their Indian possessions and the narratives of the stately homes in Britain that came to house them, frame our explorations of imperial culture and its British legacies.
History of the British Possessions in the East Indies
Author: Robert Montgomery MartinPublisher:
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Category : East Indies
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
History of the British Colonies: Possessions in Asia
Author: Robert Montgomery MartinPublisher:
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Category : Gibraltar
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
The Administration of the East India Company
Author: Sir John William KayePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
The Anarchy
Author: William DalrymplePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1526634015
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India ... A book of beauty' – Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international trading corporation into something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business. William Dalrymple tells the remarkable story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.
The Asiatic Annual Register, Or, A View of the History of Hindustan, and of the Politics, Commerce and Literature of Asia for the Year ...
Author: Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Includes: A history of British India, monthly chronicles of Asian events, accounts, travel literature, general essays, reviews of books on Asis, political analyses, poetry, and letters from readers.
The Asiatic annual register or a view of the history of Hindustan and of the politics, commerce and literature of Asia
Author: Faithful Victorian
Author: Mark DonoghuePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137587733
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This book weaves William Thomas Thornton’s life story into the larger themes of his diverse writings whose purpose was to expose ambiguities and contradictions in politics, economics, metaphysics and religion. Thornton was a poet, an intrepid traveler, a biographer, an essayist, an imperial mandarin, and a dutiful family man. Thornton joined the East India Company in the mid-1830s, rising to become Secretary of the India Office’s Department of Public Works. This study uses Thornton’s letters and other recently-discovered primary material to provide a fascinating account that returns his compelling life to the center of nineteenth-century British intellectual thought.