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The anarchy : the relentless rise of the East India Company
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ISBN: 9781408864371 1408864371 1408864398 1408864401 1526634015 Year: 2019 Publisher: London Bloomsbury

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In August 1765 the East India Company defeated and captured the young Mughal emperor and forced him to set up in his richest provinces a new government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a vast and ruthless private army.0The creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased to be a conventional international trading corporation, dealing in silks and spices, and became something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business. In less than half a century it had trained up a private security force of around 260,000 men - twice the size of the British army - and had subdued an entire subcontinent, conquering first Bengal and finally, in 1803, the Mughal capital of Delhi itself. The Company's reach stretched relentlessly until almost all of India south of the Himalayas was effectively ruled from a boardroom in London. 0'The Anarchy' tells the remarkable story of how one of the world's most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company, based thousands of miles overseas and answerable only to its shareholders. In his most ambitious and riveting book to date, William Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.

Green imperialism: colonial expansion, tropical islands Edens and the origins of environmentalism 1600-1860
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ISBN: 0521403855 0521565138 9780521403856 9780521565134 Year: 1996 Volume: *6 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

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This is the first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, concentrating especially on its hitherto unexplained colonial and global aspects. It highlights the significance of Utopian, physiocratic and medical thinking in the history of environmental ideas. The book shows how the new critique of the colonial impact on the environment depended on the emergence of a coterie of professional scientists, especially in the Dutch, French and English maritime empires. The prime importance of the oceanic island 'Eden' as a vehicle for new conceptions of nature is emphasised, and the significance of colonial island environments in stimulating conservationist notions is underlined, revealing how, for the first time, the limitability of local and global resources could be recognised.

The trading world of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660-1760
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ISBN: 0521217164 9780521217163 0521058511 0521031591 0511563264 0511865430 Year: 1978 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The main contribution of the work is to offer a comprehensive history of the English East India Company during the century 1660-1760. It also examines the commercial economy of the Asian countries in which the Company traded and its political relations with Asian princes. Finally, it is a study of business and economic decision-making under pre-modern conditions. The book is based on an extensive analysis of the quantitative and qualitative material available in the Company's archives. The data-processing of the quantitative evidence and its subsequent statistical analysis was carried out on a computer, and the book contains comprehensive tables on the volume and value of the Company's trade, prices of commercial goods, and on monetary and financial history. The extensive scope of the book and its consideration not only of the Company but of the economies in which it operated make it essential reading for all concerned with the economic history of the period, both of Europe and Asia. The techniques used in analysing the original data and their theoretical framework make it of methodological interest to economic historians.

The honourable company: a history of the English East India Company
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ISBN: 0002175150 0006380727 9780002175159 9780006380726 Year: 1991 Publisher: London Harper Collins

Die mächtigen Diener der East India company : Ursachen und Hintergründe der britischen Expansionspolitik in Südasien, 1793-1819
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ISBN: 3515059539 Year: 1992 Publisher: Stuttgart Steiner

J.S. Mill's encounter with India
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ISBN: 0802007139 1442676353 1282003224 9786612003226 9781442676350 9780802007131 1487554923 Year: 1999 Publisher: Toronto Buffalo London

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"John Stuart Mill worked for the East India Company in London for thirty-five years (1823-58), drafting many hundreds of despatches for the guidance of British administrators in India. This comprehensive effort brings together different strands of scholarship on Mill to determine the character of his role based on analyses of his draft despatches and comparisons of their practical and theoretical concerns with the broad themes of Mill's major writings on political philosophy and economics. The essays in this collection explore specific aspects of Mill's approach to Indian issues, including religion, law, education, and security, and also place him within the broader currents of utilitarianism. The contributors present different perspectives on the ideology in Mill's pragmatic work for the Company and his personal philosophy."--Jacket


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The voyages of Sir James Lancaster to Brazil and the East Indies, 1591-1603
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ISBN: 1317011929 1315551535 1283090112 9786613090119 1409416917 1409414523 9781409416913 9781409414520 9781409414520 9781317011927 9781315551531 9781283090117 6613090115 9781317011903 1317011910 Year: 2010 Publisher: Surrey Ashgate


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The Corporation That Changed the World : How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational
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ISBN: 9781849646918 1849646910 9781849646932 1849646937 9781849646925 1849646929 0745331963 9780745331966 9780745331959 0745331955 Year: 2012 Publisher: London : Pluto Press,

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Offering an account of the forerunner of the modern multinational, this book shows how the East India Company pioneered the model of the corporation that we see in modern times. It also articulates that the company's legacy shows how essential it is to break-up the contemporary over-mighty corporations.


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The East India Company and religion, 1698-1858
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ISBN: 9781843837329 1843837323 9781782040279 9781283620383 1782040277 1283620383 9786613932839 Year: 2012 Volume: 7 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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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 the abolition 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.

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