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Author | : W. G. Miller |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1783275537 |
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An in-depth study of the British traders who extended British commercial activity beyond the area controlled by the East India Company.
Author | : Jean Sutton |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1843835835 |
Download The East India Company's Maritime Service, 1746-1834 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The book charts in detail successive voyages by members of the Larkins family, who were leading owners of East India Company ships, showing what it was like to sail to and trade with India in this period. It provides a great deal of material on trade, warfare, developments in seamanship and navigation, the opening up of trade to China, and much more.
Author | : Penelope Carson |
Publisher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1843837323 |
Download The East India Company and Religion, 1698-1858 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Sudipta Sen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Download Empire of Free Trade Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
On the eve of the British conquest of India, northern India was rich in marketplaces that served as centers for an extensive and vigorous organization of inland and oceanic trade. Indigenous commercial practice, which the British never fully understood, was based on an intricate network of social, political, and religious relationships. In Empire of Free Trade, Sudipta Sen demonstrates that these marketplaces became the first sites of conflict between the East India Company and the traditional rulers of Bengal (regional representatives of the Mughal empire), as the Company fought to supplant the rulers' authority and "settle" northern Indian centers of trade by establishing powerful customs and police networks. Sen challenges recent histories that portray the Company as a trading corporation drawn unprepared into the exigencies of warfare in order to protect its ability to engage in trade. He demonstrates instead that, from the beginning, the Company attempted to build a strong and intrusive state in India, and that the first decades of colonial rule entailed much more than the preservation of trade. From the beginning the Company attempted, largely by force and subversion, to dismantle and appropriate successful commercial relationships and, with them, the cultural networks on which they were based. Sen argues that the disorganization that resulted from this dismantling helped to prepare the way for the eventual conquest of India.
Author | : H. V. Bowen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2005-12-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139447882 |
Download The Business of Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Business of Empire assesses the domestic impact of British imperial expansion by analysing what happened in Britain following the East India Company's acquisition of a vast territorial empire in South Asia. Drawing on a mass of hitherto unused material contained in the company's administrative and financial records, the book offers a reconstruction of the inner workings of the company as it made the remarkable transition from business to empire during the late-eighteenth century. H. V. Bowen profiles the company's stockholders and directors and examines how those in London adapted their methods, working practices, and policies to changing circumstances in India. He also explores the company's multifarious interactions with the domestic economy and society, and sheds important new light on its substantial contributions to the development of Britain's imperial state, public finances, military strength, trade and industry. This book will appeal to all those interested in imperial, economic and business history.
Author | : Geoff Quilley |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1783275103 |
Download British Art and the East India Company Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examines the role of the East India Company in the production and development of British art, demonstrating how art and related forms of culture were closely tied to commerce and the rise of the commercial state. This book examines the role of the East India Company in the production and development of British art during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when a new "school" of British art was in its formative stages with the foundation of exhibiting societies and the Royal Academy in 1768. It focuses on the Company's patronage, promotion and uses of art, both in Britain and in India and the Far East, and how the Company and its trade with the East were represented visually, through maritime imagery, landscape, genre painting and print-making. It also considers how, for artists such as William Hodges and Arthur William Devis, the East India Company, and its provision of a wealthy market in British India, provided opportunities for career advancement, through alignment with Company commercial principles. In this light, the book's main concern is to address the conflicted and ambiguous nature of art produced in the service of a corporation that was the "scandal of empire" for most of its existence, and how this has shaped and distorted our understanding of the history of British art in relation to the concomitant rise of Britain as a self-consciously commercial and maritime nation, whose prosperity relied upon global expansion, increasing colonialism and the development of mercantile organisations.
Author | : H. V. Bowen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 485 |
Release | : 2012-05-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 110702014X |
Download Britain's Oceanic Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A comparative study of how the British managed the expansion of empire in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
Author | : Anthony Webster |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1843833034 |
Download The Richest East India Merchant Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Biography and business history of wealthy British merchant in India reveals much about the nineteenth-century Empire.
Author | : Aditya Das |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783271299 |
Download Defending British India Against Napoleon Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A study of how Napoleon's very real and very serious threat to British India was countered.
Author | : William Dalrymple |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 577 |
Release | : 2020-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526634015 |
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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.