Author: Marquess Richard Wellesley WellesleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
The Despatches, Minutes, and Correspondence, of the Marquess Wellesley, K. G.
Author: Marquess Richard Wellesley WellesleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
The Despatches, Minutes, and Correspondence of the Marquess Wellesley, K. G., During His Administration in India
Author: Richard Colley WellesleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108032109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 779
Book Description
Covers the period of the author's governor-generalship in British India, 1798-1805.
The Despatches, Minutes & Correspondence of the Marquess Wellesley During His Administration in India
Author: Marquess Richard Wellesley WellesleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Covers the period of the author's governor-generalship in British India, 1798-1805.
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Call of Empire
Author: Alexander Charles BailliePublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773552065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
From 1760 to 1869, four generations of one family from the Scottish Highlands sought their fortunes in the service of the East India Company. As they worked their way up through the ranks of the empire, the Baillie family left numerous footprints in India and recorded their fascinating experiences in letters sent home to Scotland. Drawing on thorough research of the military, political, and economic events of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and an extensive collection of family letters that depict the lives and personalities of his ancestors, Alexander Charles Baillie brings the history of British India to life. The compelling documents, lost for over a century with many reproduced here, reveal changing race relations and social attitudes, cultural tensions, military and civilian battles, economic pressures, and the rise and decline of the East India Company. The book focuses especially on two members of the family – William of Dunain, a military officer, and John of Leys, a civil servant – whose numerous adventures and misadventures impart provocative clues about the workings of the empire and the daily lives of its most influential figures. An exciting, invaluable, and personalized glimpse into the past of India, Scotland, and the East India Company, Call of Empire will appeal to genealogy enthusiasts and social and global historians.
The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc
Author: Serve the Power(s), Serve the State
Author: Michael J. BraddickPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443896810
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
The companion volume to Latin American Bureaucracy State and the State Building Process (1780–1860) (2013), this book examines the organization and the consolidation of various groups – including judicial officers and tax agents, administrative clerks and soldiers, and merchants and money lenders – acting to create (or reacting to ruin, in the case of the collective resistance to taxes) newly emergent forms of social and political power. Chapters range across Latin America and the United States, Spain, Modern England, Russia, India and the Far-East, and the longue durée of Eurasian history (12th–19th centuries). They reveal that, beyond the general impact of kinship networks, different processes resulted in the consolidation of a new authority based on specialized knowledge and professionalization. The importance attached to the role played by these new servants by imperial, royal or feudal courts led to new forms of recruitment, new procedures of evaluation and the regularization of daily work. It also led to the establishment of new hierarchies, and to the reinforcement of the identity of these various groups who were aggregating to defend shared interests, develop alliances, create methods of intervention, and define fields of expertise. In this respect, the concept of “State” is revisited here as a diverse and locally varied process grounded on differing historical experiences, but which produced similar public officers, who saw themselves as powerful servants managing a part of the public authority.
The Making of Western Indology
Author: Rosane RocherPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131757916X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
For thirty years in India at the cusp of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Henry Thomas Colebrooke was an administrator and scholar with the East India Company. The Making of Western Indology explains and evaluates Colebrooke’s role as the founder of modern Indology. The book discusses how Colebrooke embodies the significant passage from the speculative yearnings attendant on eighteenth-century colonial expansion, to the professional, transnational ethos of nineteenth-century intellectual life and scholarly enquiry. It covers his career with the East India Company, from a young writer to member of the supreme council and theorist of the Bengal government. Highlighting how his unprecedented familiarity with a broad range of literature established him as the leading scholar of Sanskrit and president of the Asiatic Society in Calcutta, it shows how Colebrooke went on to found the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and set standards for western Indology. Written by renowned academics in the field of Indology, and drawing on new sources, this biography is a useful contribution to the reassessment of Oriental studies that is currently taking place.
Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc
Author: William Jerdan“A” Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description