The East India Company 1600 1858

Author : Ian Barrow
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781624665981

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The East India Company, 1600–1858 by Ian Barrow Pdf

In existence for 258 years, the English East India Company ran a complex, highly integrated global trading network. It supplied the tea for the Boston Tea Party, the cotton textiles used to purchase slaves in Africa, and the opium for China’s nineteenth-century addiction. In India it expanded from a few small coastal settlements to govern territories that far exceeded the British Isles in extent and population. It minted coins in its name, established law courts and prisons, and prosecuted wars with one of the world’s largest armies. Over time, the Company developed a pronounced and aggressive colonialism that laid the foundation for Britain’s Eastern empire. A study of the Company, therefore, is a study of the rise of the modern world. In clear, engaging prose, Ian Barrow sets the rise and fall of the Company into political, economic, and cultural contexts and explains how and why the Company was transformed from a maritime trading entity into a territorial colonial state. Excerpts from eighteen primary documents illustrate the main themes and ideas discussed in the text. Maps, illustrations, a glossary, and a chronology are also included.

Author : Patrick J. N. Tuck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 041515524X

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The East India Company, 1784-1834 by Patrick J. N. Tuck Pdf

Author : C. H. Philips
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446545195

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The East India Company 1784 - 1834 by C. H. Philips Pdf

Originally published in 1940, this '.is the first detailed study and appraisal of the relations between the Court of Directors and the Board of Control during the fifty formative years after Pitt set up this government office to direct and control the Company's Indian administration. it was an extremely intricate system of dual government with checks and balances and interlocking factions and interests.' Contents Include: The East India House, 1784-1834 The Opposition of the Indian Interest, 1784-88 The Ascendancy of Dundas, 1788 94 The Revolt of the Shipping Interest 1794-1802 The Triumph of the Shipping Interest, 1802-06 The India House Divided Against Itself, 1806-12 Buckinghamshire Versus The India House, 1812-16 Canning's East India Policy, 1816-22 The Failure of the Private Trade Interest, 1822-30 The Company's Surrender, 1830-34 Concluding Remarks

Author : Patrick J. N. Tuck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415155223

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Trade, Finance and Power by Patrick J. N. Tuck Pdf

Author : Patrick J. N. Tuck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0415155177

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The East India Company, 1600-1858: Problems of Empire : Britain and India, 1757-1813 by Patrick J. N. Tuck Pdf

Author : Patrick J. N. Tuck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415155231

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Warfare, Expansion and Resistance by Patrick J. N. Tuck Pdf

Author : William A. Pettigrew,Mahesh Gopalan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317191971

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The East India Company, 1600-1857 by William A. Pettigrew,Mahesh Gopalan Pdf

This book employs a wide range of perspectives to demonstrate how the East India Company facilitated cross-cultural interactions between the English and various groups in South Asia between 1600 to 1857 and how these interactions transformed important features of both British and South Asian history. Rather than viewing the Company as an organization projecting its authority from London to India, the volume shows how the Company’s history and its broader historical significance can best be understood by appreciating the myriad ways in which these interactions shaped the Company’s story and altered the course of history. Bringing together the latest research and several case studies, the work includes examinations of the formulation of economic theory, the development of corporate strategy, the mechanics of state finance, the mapping of maritime jurisdiction, the government and practice of religions, domesticity, travel, diplomacy, state formation, art, gift-giving, incarceration, and rebellion. Together, the essays will advance the understanding of the peculiarly corporate features of cross-cultural engagement during a crucial early phase of globalization. Insightful and lucid, this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of modern history, South Asian studies, economic history, and political studies.

Author : Ramkrishna Mukherjee
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : 9780853453154

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Rise and Fall East India by Ramkrishna Mukherjee Pdf

This remarkable study of the British East India Company offers great insight into the formation of the Company, its impact on both England and India, and the social forces that shaped its development. With great detail and rich documentation, Ramkrishna Mukherjee examines a period of 258 years, beginning immediately before the Company's birth and ending with its collapse in 1858. This is an engrossing work that reveals much about what is no doubt one of the most important institutions in the history of British colonialism and of world capitalism generally.

Author : K. N. Chaudhuri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415190762

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The English East India Company by K. N. Chaudhuri Pdf

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Antony Wild
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015052624817

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The East India Company by Antony Wild Pdf

This Is A Beautifully Illustrated Book Which Describes How The Company Created And Built Up Its Extraordinary Trading Empire, How It Conducted Its Day-To-Day Business At Home And In The East And The Sequnce Of Events That Led To Its Eventual Absorption By The British Crown. Inscribed On The Title Page, Beautiful Colour Illustrations, Text Absolutely Clean, Condition Good.

Author : Tirthankar Roy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788184756135

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The East India Company by Tirthankar Roy Pdf

This groundbreaking study examines how the East India Company founded an empire in India at the same time it started losing ground in business. For over 200 years, the Company’s vast business network had spanned Persia, India, China, Indonesia and North America. But in the late 1700s, its career took a dramatic turn, and it ended up being an empire builder. In this fascinating account, Tirthankar Roy reveals how the Company’s trade with India changed it—and how the Company changed Indian business. Fitting together many pieces of a vast jigsaw puzzle, the book explores how politics meshed so closely with the conduct of business then, and what that tells us about doing business now. ‘One of the first major attempts to tell the company’s story from an Indian business perspective’—Financial Express

Author : Philip Lawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317897651

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The East India Company by Philip Lawson Pdf

This is the first short history of the East India Company from its founding in 1600 to its demise in 1857, designed for students and academics. The Company was central to the growth of the British Empire in India, to the development of overseas trade, and to the rise of shareholder capitalism, so this survey will be essential reading for imperial and economic historians and historians of Asia alike. It stresses the neglected early years of the Company, and its intimate relationship with (and impact upon) the domestic British scene.

Author : Patrick Truck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000560114

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East India Company V2 by Patrick Truck Pdf

First published in 2004. The purpose of this reference work is to offer a range of materials covering the history of the East India Company during the two and a half centuries of its existence.Volume II, Peter Marshall's Problems of Empire. Britain and India, 1757-1813 surveys, partly through the medium of original documents, the Company's complex transformation from a trading concern to an imperial power.

Author : Penelope Carson
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843837329

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The East India Company and Religion, 1698-1858 by Penelope Carson Pdf

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 : Margot Finn,Kate Smith
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787350274

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The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 by Margot Finn,Kate Smith Pdf

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.