Author: Anne Thackeray RitchiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anglo-Burmese War, 1st, 1824-1826
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Lord Amherst and the British Advance Eastwards to Burma
Author: Anne Thackeray RitchiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anglo-Burmese War, 1st, 1824-1826
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Governors-general of India
Author: Henry MorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The East India Company and Religion, 1698-1858
Author: Penelope CarsonPublisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 1843837323
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
An overview of the East India Company's policy towards religion throughout its period of rule in India. This wide-ranging book charts how the East India Company grappled with religious issues in its multi-faith empire, putting them into the context of pressures exerted both in Britain and on the subcontinent, from the Company's early mercantile beginnings to the bloody end of its rule in 1858. Religion was at the heart of the East India Company's relationship with India, but the course of its religious policy has rarely been examined in any systematic way. The free exercise of religion, the policy the Company adopted in its early days in order to safeguard the security of its possessions, was challenged by Evangelicals in the late eighteenth century. They demanded that the Company should grant free access to Christians of all Protestant denominations and an end to 'barbaric' Indian religious practices. This gave rise to an unprecedented petitioning movement in 1813, comparable in strength to that for theabolition of the slave trade the following year. It was an important milestone in British domestic politics. The final years of the Company's rule were dominated by its attempts to withstand Evangelical demands in the face of growing hostility from Indians. In the end it pleased no one, and its rule came to a gory and ignominious end. In this compelling account, Penny Carson examines the twists and turns of the East India Company's policy on religious issues. The story of how the Company dealt with the fact that it was a Christian Company, trying to be equitable to the different faiths it found in India, has resonances for Britain today as it attempts to accommodate the religions of all its peoples within the Christian heritage and structure of the state. Penelope Carson is an independent scholar with a doctorate from King's College, London.
Lord William Bentinck
Author: John RosselliPublisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520360206
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
Constitutional Conventions and the Headship of State: Australian Experience
Author: Donald MarkwellPublisher:
ISBN: 9781925501155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Dawning of the Raj
Author: Jeremy BernsteinPublisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Warren Hastings, Britain's first governor-elect of India, was in the 18th century the person most responsible for the creation of British rule in India, according to the author. Hastings' eventual and dramatic impeachment forms the conclusion to Bernstein's unusual and powerful narrative. 12 illustrations.
A Governor's Story
Author: Jennifer GranholmPublisher: Public Affairs
ISBN: 1586489976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Recounts the former Michigan governor's struggles to solve the problems of unemployment and budget deficits with the auto industry collapse and global financial crisis.
The History of British India
Author: James MillThe Legislative Acts of the Governor General of India in Council, from 1834 to the End of 1867
Author: IndiaThe Proudest Day
Author: Anthony ReadPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393318982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
A riveting account of the end of the Raj--the most romantic of all the great empires--told in compelling and colorful detail by the authors of "The Deadly Embrace" and "The Fall of Berlin." of photos.