The East India Company In Persia

Author : Peter Good
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350152298

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The East India Company in Persia by Peter Good Pdf

In 1747, the city of Kerman in Persia burned amidst chaos, destruction and death perpetrated by the city's own overlord, Nader Shah. After the violent overthrow of the Safavid dynasty in 1722 and subsequent foreign invasions from all sides, Persia had been in constant turmoil. One well-appointed house that belonged to the East India Company had been saved from destruction by the ingenuity of a Company servant, Danvers Graves, and his knowledge of the Company's privileges in Persia. This book explores the lived experience of the Company and its trade in Persia and how it interacted with power structures and the local environment in a time of great upheaval in Persian history. Using East India Company records and other sources, it charts the role of the Navy and commercial fleet in the Gulf, trade agreements, and the experience of Company staff, British and non-British living in and navigating conditions in 18th-century Persia. By examining the social, commercial and diplomatic history of this relationship, this book creates a new paradigm for the study of Early Modern interactions in the Indian Ocean.

Author : Tirthankar Roy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : John Fryer
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : India
ISBN : 8120607961

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A New Account of East India and Persia by John Fryer Pdf

Being An Account Of Nine Years Travel From 1672 To 1681. Edited With Notes And An Introduction By William Crooke.

Author : R. Hughes Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : BL:A0019028342

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Treaties, Agreements, and Engagements, Between the Honorable East India Company and the Native Princes, Chiefs, and States, in Western India, the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, &c by R. Hughes Thomas Pdf

Author : Ian Barrow
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Adam Clulow,Tristan Mostert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9462983291

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The Dutch and English East India Companies by Adam Clulow,Tristan Mostert Pdf

A ground-breaking collection of essays that explores the place of the Dutch and English East India Companies in Asia and the nature of their interactions with Asian rulers, officials, merchants, soldiers and brokers.

Author : Brian Gardner
Publisher : Marboro Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000032236903

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The East India Company by Brian Gardner Pdf

The East India company - there has never been an enterprise like it. It ruled over nearly one-fifth of the world's population; possessed its own army and navy, its own civil service, even its own church; became the most powerful military force in Asia, and had a revenue greater than that of Britain. It was in Brian Gardener's words, "a government owned by businessmen, the shares in which were daily bought and sold."--Book Jacket (inside flap)

Author : Cyril Elgood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108015882

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A Medical History of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate by Cyril Elgood Pdf

Elgood presents a continuous history of the fascinating art and practice of medicine in Persia (Iran) from the earliest times.

Author : East India Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:B3283862

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Letters Received by the East India Company from Its Servants in the East by East India Company Pdf

Author : John Bruce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1810
Category : India
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004997859

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Annals of the Honorable East-India Company by John Bruce Pdf

Author : E. M. Jacobs
Publisher : Leiden University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123150562

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Merchant in Asia by E. M. Jacobs Pdf

For much of its two centuries of existence (1602 to 1799), the VOC, the Dutch East India Company was the largest trading company in the world. Although the VOC was established to operate primarily as a trading company, it soon also came to play a prominent military, diplomatic and political role on the Asian stage and eventually it laid the foundations of the Dutch colonial empire in the Indonesian Archipelago. Merchant in Asia is the first study to pay attention to the full breadth and width of the VOC commercial activities in Asia. It looks at the company from the peak of its fame until its final decline at the end of the eighteenth century. The study focuses on the main trade goods - spices, Indian textiles, Chinese tea and Javanese coffee - and their specific by-products. Els Jacobs has analyzed in detail the VOC trade in fifteen of the most important commodities that together made up 85% of the total turnover. This innovative study is based on extensive research of the VOC archives and many other Dutch sources, as well as a detailed quantitative analysis of the VOC bookkeeping records. In the study the author sketches in vivid detail how the merchants of the VOC sold, bought, and even supervised the production of tropical products and how they dealt with Asian suppliers and consumers. In addition, she looks at the range of problems the merchants encountered in the maritime trade from Yemen and Persia in the West to China and Japan in the East, including India, Ceylon, Malacca, and the Indonesian Archipelago.

Author : Patrick J. N. Tuck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415155185

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England's Quest of Eastern Trade by Patrick J. N. Tuck Pdf

Author : Philip Lawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Richard M. Eaton
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141966557

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India in the Persianate Age by Richard M. Eaton Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 'Remarkable ... this brilliant book stands as an important monument to an almost forgotten world' William Dalrymple, Spectator A sweeping, magisterial new history of India from the middle ages to the arrival of the British The Indian subcontinent might seem a self-contained world. Protected by vast mountains and seas, it has created its own religions, philosophies and social systems. And yet this ancient land experienced prolonged and intense interaction with the peoples and cultures of East and Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa and, especially, Central Asia and the Iranian plateau between the eleventh and eighteenth centuries. Richard M. Eaton's wonderful new book tells this extraordinary story with relish and originality. His major theme is the rise of 'Persianate' culture - a many-faceted transregional world informed by a canon of texts that circulated through ever-widening networks across much of Asia. Introduced to India in the eleventh century by dynasties based in eastern Afghanistan, this culture would become thoroughly indigenized by the time of the great Mughals in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This long-term process of cultural interaction and assimilation is reflected in India's language, literature, cuisine, attire, religion, styles of rulership and warfare, science, art, music, architecture, and more. The book brilliantly elaborates the complex encounter between India's Sanskrit culture - which continued to flourish and grow throughout this period - and Persian culture, which helped shape the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughal Empire and a host of regional states, and made India what it is today.

Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526634016

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The Anarchy by William Dalrymple Pdf

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.